Suw: There’s a lot more I’d like to say about stats, but til then, here’s a good look at the problem with Google Reader’s stats.

Suw: Ought to look at this collaborative video editing platform, as well as Jumpcut, in more detail. Haven’t had time though.

Suw: Amazing video by Michael Wesch. Again, have more to say about this, but just not enoguh time. Great stuff, go watch it.

Suw: 111 men go shirtless at Abercrombie and Fitch in NY, mimicing A&F’s shirtless branding. Lesson: be careful what you wish for, lest it come true.

Suw: Anyone with a business blog should read this, and take very careful notes. Scalzi nails it.

Suw: Interesting use of visualisation to help you understand how your website is performing

Suw: The attitude of the NUJ towards online is shameful. They are not helping their members progress into the digital era, they are hobbling them, doing more damage than good. Disgraceful.

Kevin: Attention Profiling Markup Language. It allows you to take your interests and your attention profile with you. But Mark Hopkins wonders whether this is good for consumers as much as marketers. Also interesting views on media.

Kevin: A good roundup of how Twitter and the net is being used to post news about the wildfires in California. Micro-blogged, rapid fire updates on Twitter. Pictures on Flickr. Read the lines about CNN and MSNBC not aggregating. Missed opportunity.

Suw: Interesting, concerning, or paranoid conspiracy theory?

Kevin: Really interesting project showing how you can leverage Web 2.0 services to build an engaging site and editorial project without worrying about doing it all on your own. The idea is so simple. Post your questions to presidential candidates on video

Kevin: Check out the new MediaShift Idea Lab blog, and definitely check out this post from Jay Rosen with lots of simple but effective tips on how to create a successful online news site.

Kevin: Richard Sambrook explains why the BBC is going to have ads on its international facing site. Hopefully they can put some of that money back into the online operation.

Kevin: Good review of ZigZag from the BBC World Trust. ZigZag is an online magazine that helps train Iranian journalists. I met with some of the journalists a few weeks ago. They have such passion for online journalism.

Suw: Post from Anastasia Goodstein on the new Pew report about what teens are really doing online. Intersting figures, too.

Suw: Benjamin Radford debunks a few myths.

Suw: I can’t decide if this is exciting or creepy.

Kevin: $10 a year to go to non-profit investigative journalism projects: Pro Publica. The team of 24 journalists based in New York will give their work away.

Kevin: Steve Outing, who Suw and I met in Boulder, has a good overview of news organisations and Facebook for Editor & Publisher. Steve also asks people in the industry what their plans are.

Kevin: Philip Meyer’s very thoughtful article about objectivity, types of it and the limits of it in terms of reporting about climate change. “In the age of the Internet, mere transmission no longer adds value to information.”

Kevin: Tim O’Reilly gives a cautionary tale about everyone chasing the same strategy. The post is a bit dense in places, but his argument holds together moving from Facebook, apps and the long tail to Quant Funds formulae.

Kevin: Three column templates are very popular, especially for sites that are monetized with banner or text ads. Here are 30+ …

Kevin: A little off topic, but it’s a good post about employee turnover and making sure you get all your needs met. I’m a Maslow junkie as well.

Kevin: Jay Rosen takes a look back at lessons learned from Assignment Zero. Start with clear, simple tasks. Consider participants motivations. Get the division of labour right between pros and ams. Plan for co-ordination costs and more.

Kevin: Reporters without Borders report on how China controls the internet with input from a Chinese IT worker.

Kevin: WSJ columnist Jeremy Wagstaff asks who gets the windfall when Old Media buys a community in the wake of Microsoft’s purchase of social news site Newsvine. Via Martin Stabe

Kevin: Ian Forrester sent this to the BBC Backstage list from O’Reilly Radar. I wonder if there aren’t opportunities for news navigation based on time.

Kevin: Fellow geeks, have a read of this post and let the humour dull the pain of how many times we’ve been in this conference call or felt like saying this during meetings. (Thanks to Wayne Ma for the link)

Kevin: Scott Adams speculates about the future of newspapers (or the lack of a future) with the arrival of the iPhone and a web browser in (not quite) every pocket. But there are ideas there that news execs should look at.

Kevin: From the Social Graphing conference in San Jose. Charlene Li of Forrester Research says: Facebook marketing requires communication not advertising. I think that this is true for social media in general, not just Facebook.

Suw: The innovation landscape should not be marked with “here be dragons” all over the place… but it seems that it is.

Suw: Slightly depressing to think I might be reinventing the wheel, but on the other hand, what with blogs and stuff, maybe that reinvention might stick this time round.

Suw: Go Tim! “Twitter hits that 80/20 point, bringing me that news without all the Facebook bullshit and lame groups and dorky apps and stupid ads and data lock-in”