Kevin: Dan Gillmor has a new project: founding director of the new Knight Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, Arizona State University. Can’t wait to hear more.

Kevin: Anne Speckman of Times Online looking to recruit: “The people who are by far the most valuable are those who combine journalism skills with real technical skill.”

Kevin: Tom Curley of AP says that newspapers should “quit thinking like gatekeepers of information and reach out to people who are accustomed to receiving news in real time online” (via Techno-news)

Kevin: Charlie Beckett has a great line-up including friend Richard Sambrook of the BBC and Emily Bell of the Guardian talking about the future of public service journalism.

Kevin: Steve Yelvington pointed out this Drupal group of news and media organisations using the open-source content and community management software.

Suw: Neat little Twitter app, based on Adobe Air.

Suw: Neat little mobile aggregator. Yet to try it out, but looks lovely.

Suw: Fake blogs are going to become not just annoying, but also illegal. PR companies, beware – your astroturfing days are totally over.

Kevin: Adam Tinworth posts an excellent response to the NUJ new media flap. I wrote from outside the union, but Adam writes as an NUJ member. It’s thoughtful and balanced and explores the issues. It also speaks volumes to journalists’ thinking.

Kevin: Stephen Brook liveblogging from the Society of Editors’ conference gives a round up of Gavin O’Reilly’s (no relation to Tim either by blood or thinking) talk about the future of ‘newspapers’. Check out the line about ‘someone with attitude sitting

Kevin: The Gotham Gazette is launching their first Knight-funded news games. They used OpenLaszlo instead of Flash. More details at the MediaShift Idea Lab.

Suw: Chris Anderson pulls no punches, and publishes a list of the email addresses flacks have used to send him inappropriate press releases. Flacks *must* learn to be more careful. Especially, it seems, people from Weber Shandwick and Edelman.

Kevin: Joanna Geary, “a twenty-something regional newspaper journalist”, has some thoughts on the recent NUJ Web 2.0 debate. A pragmatic view, saying “I think small teams aggregating and checking the facts of blog posts and forums may well be something we

Kevin: Chris Lake makes some good points from a perspective outside of journalism about the web, participation and authority. “Authority is earned by experts, whereas it is donated to most journalists by association with a top newspaper brand.”

Kevin: If you’re working with video formats or taking in contributions from the public, here are some free video encoders and converters. Thanks to the folks at Lifehacker.

Suw: This is a very interesting move by Google. I look forward to seeing how this plays out.

Kevin: Steven Clift at US public broadcaster’s new MediaShift IdeaLab asks for success stories on comments. Watch this space, both the IdeaLab and the comments on this post. Chip in with your success stories.

Kevin: Matt Waite of the St. Petersburg Times announces his new job: News technologist. “It’s technology. It’s R&D. It’s databases. It’s local, national, mobile. … And then, really, it’s all journalism.”

Kevin: From the International Herald Tribune’s developer blog, a good discussion not only about how visitors use comments but also tips on how to stimulate discussion.

Kevin: Richard Sambrook responds to questions about BBC.com. Richard, the head of the BBC’s Global News Division, shows how to be responsive, answering questions from his original post. He talks about ads on BBC.com.

Kevin: WBEZ in Chicago reports how the Medill Journalism School at Northwestern University is going multimedia, and not all of the students are happy about it. Understanding the audience is not about undercutting journalism.

Kevin: Roy Greenslade gives his considered response on why he is leaving the NUJ. “I cannot, in all conscience, remain within a union I now regard, albeit reluctantly, as reactionary. The digital revolution is here and I am digital revolutionary.” Go Roy!

Kevin: A good roundup of open source content management systems. I’m a bit baffled why more news organisations don’t go the open source route and instead invest a lot into bespoke behemoths. Is it simply scalability and resiliency?

Suw: Khoi Vinh on Lotus Notes and its recent ad campaign: “As if frightening, cross-species aberrations of nature are what we’ve all been looking for in an email and calendaring solution.” Enterprise social software vendors, take note.