Kevin: Jeff points out: “Piper Jaffray PowerPoint (sorry, I lost the link) that said that time spent on “user-generated content” sites soared from 3 percent in April of 2005 to 31 percent now: a tenfold increase in just two years and a now huge propor

Kevin: YouTube looks set to overtake the BBC as the most visited homepage amongst web users. Internet advertising is expected to rise by double digits for the next few years to $78.4b in 2011.

Kevin: David Pogue has a little fun with video in reviewing the iPhone. It’s one of the few times that 5 minutes of watching video on the web flew by. I loved the creativity that obviously went into the video. Worth watching.

Kevin: Interesting post that lays out some thinking needed to deal with incivility online. I also like the fact that Mike Rowland acknowledges that it’s not just ‘users’ who are uncivil but that a nasty tone already exists in the media created by us.

Kevin: My friend and former BBC colleague Alf Hermida wonders if citizen journalism is struggling to catch on. I wonder if the poll focusing on one story might not capture a wider range of interest. I also wonder about general blog awareness.

Kevin: Quoth ABCNews.com: “We love blogs. But what the hell are these hyperlink things?” This is a metaphor for how news orgs miss the obvious opportunities too often. I know that this was probably imported from some other CMS. But c’mon guys!

Kevin: Recently I’ve been saying that I’m a member of the global geek crowd. This article focuses on the business side of things, but I think that there is definitely a geek connection that goes beyond geography.

Suw: OSC complain to Ofcom about the BBC’s Windows-only iPlayer

Suw: Happiness at work is severely underrated, despite plenty of evidence to say that happy people are more productive. Everyone in business should read this blog.

Suw: “To be human is to be happier. No species has such a capacity to be happy (and unhappy!) as humans.”

Kevin: An interesting vision of a future full of location-based services. Who is going to provide this information? Bottom up world of tags and/or news organisations? Or more likely a mix of Google and crowd-sourcing.

Kevin: The BBC’s Robin Hamman has a good scalable approach to community. As communities grow bigger, they often become unmanageable. “(The BBC) should join and support an existing conversation rather than trying to own it.”

Kevin: Sobering article on the economics of print and new media. Vin Crosbie says that each newspaper reader is worth $500 to $1200 in revenue where each online reader is worth $8. Grow online revenue, or else.

Kevin: Amy Gahran has a great post looking at JD Lasica’s call for better tools for citizen media. I think this isn’t just for citizen media but also for mainstream media. Blogs are better story telling tools than many CMSes. What’s with that?

Kevin: Dave Weinberger interviews Richard Sambrook of the BBC, a very forward thinking news executive, friend and former colleague. “In this interview, Sambrook focuses not just on the new content coming from the Web but on our new ability to organize con

Suw: The wonderful Moo are going to be launching stickers soon – neat! But sure this should be the Hot & Stick(er)y Summer Party? I’ll be there…

Suw: I actually see a lot of this “new seriousness” as Horst amusingly puts it. The Cult of Personality is a bad, bad thing.

Kevin: When PR companies attack. Wow, this is one of the weirdest viral ad campaigns that I’ve ever seen. Sex in the City for condiments.

Suw: Larry moves on from intellectual property to looking at how to fix the endemic ‘corruption’ of politics. Big shift, big challenge, but incredibly important. Good luck, Larry!

Suw: Joseph Thornley write up notes of the panel session I was in at Enterprise 2.0, and makes me sound very smart. Thank you, Joseph!

Suw: Out of the frying pan and into the fire?

Suw: I am so sad that I missed Hackday – sounds like Tom and the guys put on a really amazing event. Especially impressive to see they arranged a light(ning) show too.