Suw: Sometimes the instinct to solve someone’s problem isn’t the right way forward, and saying “I don’t know the solution” is.

Suw: Are social networks undermining the making of new friends at university? Maybe more emphasis needs to be placed on deliberately bringing people together offline so they can share experiences in order to build relationships.

Suw: About time the music industry woke up to the fact that CDs are just one potential source of income.

Suw: Disgraceful piece of misreporting from the Observer, presenting hokum as if it were forensic evidence, thus willfully misleading the reader. It’s disgusting that this crap gets published as if scientific fact.

Suw: Ben Goldacre effectively debunks the Observer’s hokum piece about Danie Krugel’s claims to have found Madeleine McCann’s body on a Portuguese beach.

Suw: Steph’s notes of my talk at FOWA on preparing for enterprise adoption

Kevin: Via Martin Stabe. David Weinberger knows the front page is dead but the future isn’t here yet. He’s right. A lot of my media consumption is based on recommendation and filtering from a network of real people.

Kevin: How to get your work done and get around some common workplace roadblocks.

Kevin: Adam Tinworth quotes ‘Gapingvoid’ Hugh who rails against ‘Agents of Calcification’. They maintain bureaucracy, which can be useful in times of stability, but can stand in the way during times of great change.

Kevin: Jemima Kiss of the Guardian blogs from the UK Association of Online Publishers conference a talk by Caroline Little, chief exec and publisher of WaPo.Newsweek Interactive about how to manage local and global audiences.

Kevin: Amen. More editors need to read this. Yes, just getting anyone and everyone to blog does indicate a lack of a strategy, but that would assume that news organisations act strategically. If only!

Kevin: My friend and former manager Steve Herrmann goes into the details of how the BBC is getting information out of Burma. It’s a brief summary of how the BBC involves the audience in coverage.

Kevin: Graham draws attention to a piece on Newsnight from Afghanistan where the journalist chooses to let the subjects tell the story. “I want the players to tell me the story. I wish more journalists would work this way.” Amen.

Kevin: A case study in entrepreneurship, innovation and risk taking from the “seminal start-up Fairchild Semiconductor”. Some good historical lessons.

Kevin: Some deep thinking on creating tools for interactive, literary journalism. Watch this space.

Kevin: Mark Potts looks at the FT.com’s new 30-free-pages a month model and says that business models need more nuance rather than paid versus free.

Kevin: Paul has some posts on a model for the 21st Century Newsroom. In this post, I like breaking down speed and depth elements.

Kevin: Paul writes the next installment of his newsroom of the future posts with a look at distributed journalism. His posts work well because of his excellent analysis of changes in media consumption.

Kevin: Robin has some good tips on getting information from inside Burma. Good tips for getting information out of any heavily controlled country.

Kevin: Jeff says that trust funding and government funding won’t protect journalists from having to deal with change. “Our challenge is … to answer the question of whether the marketplace will support journalism and how it will do that.”

Kevin: Google lets new publish tell the spiders what to crawl. The World Editors blog sees it as Google ‘forcing publishers to sign up’. Opportunity or threat?

Kevin: Great advice from Howard Owens. News organisations need the effort of individual journalists to learn and help create change. “Your boss isn’t responsible for your career. You are. Solely.” Besides, it’s fun.

Kevin: Steve Yelvington challenges the revenue per online user numbers. He says that ‘drive-by’ as opposed to “habituated” users skew the numbers. It’s a useful contrarian position.

Kevin: This is an intriguing acquisition. The BBC is going to need more revenue streams as its public support (the licence fee) declines. Look for a much more aggressive commercial strategy.

Kevin: Good technology comparison of WordPress and Drupal from Bivings Report. This is a post worth reading the comments as well. Lots of community intelligence there.

Hard-hitting, uncompromising post from a comment on Alan Mutter’s blog. He calls on publishers to think about content, not newspapers. Read the comments, too.

Suw: Socially networked customer service. Excellent idea, hope it gathers a bit of momentum and turns into something really useful.

Kevin: Thanks to Steve @ Bivings for sending this along. It’s a good run down about lessons learned about what works and doesn’t. Big take away. There is no silver bullet. No one size fits all. As for the bit about blogs, it’s not about blogs but bloggers

Suw: Stephen Fry has started a blog, and in his first post he goes into some incredible depth on smartphones.

Suw: Phil Edwards gives the lie to the idea that you can’t make friends via social networks, an idea presented by Will Reader and crawled all over by the media. yes, you can make friends online, as easily as you can offline. It’s just a different sort of

Kevin: This is an intriguing ‘strategy’. MySpace is ‘framing’ your news. Oh how very Fox of them. How long until lawyers are set to stun?

Kevin: Very cogent analysis from John Dvorak. The real threat from Google? Showing how much duplication of content there is in newspapers. If you’ve got nothing unique to offer in a global marketplace, expect to fail.

Suw: Good post by Cory on publishing free CC ebooks of commercial works.

Kevin: Good look at features and applications of WordPress and Drupal from the folks at the Bivings Report who use both open source platforms for their clients.