Suw: Minneapolis Star-Tribune cancel Lileks’ column and tell him to write news. They are obviously daft in the head.

Suw: Tim Oren points out the death throes of the newspaper industry in the US.

Suw: “YouTube will start paying some “select” uploaders”. It’d be nice if this works, and interesting to see if it has a positive or negative impact on overall quality of videos uploaded.

Suw: The “BBC Trust which values private partnerships more than the public”. Bobbie hits the nail on the head.

Suw: All the headlines you’ll ever need.

Suw: The Supernova2007 blog that I’m co-hosting.

Suw: Is the music industry completely mad? Have they not heard of the doctrine of first sale? Wait… don’t answer that…

Kevin: An attempt to get behind the design process of Apple. Fascinating to read about the near obsessive eye for design. What fascinates me is how it highlights the failings of design by committee. Sometimes, it does take singular vision.

Kevin: Clyde Bentley pays tribute to his first managing editor and mentor. I love the first line: “The man who launched my love affair with the audience died Saturday.” It’s a love affair, a relationship that most need to rekindle.

Kevin: Ben Hammersley pointed this out to me. Want to create a generic grid for CSS? Build the grid here and then it kicks out the CSS. Finally some tools that make it easy to do more complex CSS.

Kevin: Rob Freeman has yet another really good (but under appreciated) post about the competitive threat that ITV Local poses for local newspapers. He touches on the economics of video production, ads sales and partnerships.

Suw: Sadly, the very people who need to take note of this are the very people who are also likely to miss the joke.

Kevin: Erin Teeling of the Bivings report looks at some of the restrictive – and self defeating – rules some newspaper bloggers are labouring under. They can’t link out to other news sites? No wonder Bivings thinks they suck.

Kevin: Editor and Publisher calls for the Virginia Tech college newspaper to be in a consideration for a Pulitzer for their coverage of the shooting. They did a stellar job and showed how to break news online even when their servers were melting.

Kevin: Forrester challenges the 1-9-90 ‘rule’ that posits that only a small group of people online actively create content. This is must read research in the US market showing how broad and varied participation online is.

Kevin: Mart Potts has another great post on the failing economics of the newspaper business. “That’s what happens when you paste a business model and product onto a computer screen, rather than try to truly innovate.”

Kevin: Guardian newspaper blogger Roy Greenslade highlights video footage of freesheet ‘thelondonpaper’ being dumped by its distributors. As he says, it will make it difficult to verify circulation figures.

Kevin: Someonee left this link on a post about distributors of freesheets dumping them, calling circulation figures into question. I see piles of these freesheets blowing all over London. What a waste.

Kevin: Martin Stabe give a good overview of more media criticism of the handling of the Virginia Tech shootings. Excellent roundup. Journalist and LiveJournaler Adam Tinworth calls media attempts to contact LJers ‘digital doorstopping’.

Kevin: Craig McGinty considers the Virginia Tech coverage online. “One thing I think a journalist has to consider is that if they see messages previously left by other news organisations do they really think their request is going to make any difference?”

Kevin: LSE’s Charlie Beckett looks at gun legislation pieces in the British press hours after the Virginia shootings and asks, among other things: “Is it part of a more general knee-jerk bias against America within the British press?”

Kevin: The HuffPost has a good roundup of the online coverage of the Virginia Tech shooting. A good roundup of information across sites including blogs, Flickr, MySpace and Facebook. Communication and information was decentralised.

Kevin: The BBC’s Robin Hamman goes through the process he used to contact bloggers and takes the media to task for their inconsiderate (to say the least) attempts to contact people on blogging and social networking sites.

Kevin: Friend and former colleague Chris Vallance takes a look at the ethical pitfalls of social media coverage not only for the MSM but for social news sites. Great nuanced overview that asks important questions.

Kevin: Mark Glaser has an excellent post on hyperlocal sites. Face to face meetups. One size doesn’t fit all and “Ask not what the community can do for you; ask what you can do for the community.”

Kevin: Martin Stabe recently asked teachers to teach a bit about blogging before giving students a blog. The Bivings Report has a good roundup of blogging and education best practices.

Kevin: Center for Citizen Media gives a roundup of how the Virginia Tech coverage and what it means for media. “We used to say that journalists write the first draft of history. Not so, not any longer. The people on the ground at these events write the fi

Kevin: Stewart Pittman answers the question of why TV ‘shooters’ aren’t exploring new methods for video storytelling as much as print photographers. It has a clear message for TV new folk looking to develop VOD. Via Mark Hamilton

Kevin: In the UK, people have often said my ‘facts, just the facts’ approach is because I’m an American schooled in AP style. I’d say that I’m an online journalist with little time for five graf leads. “Write tight and get to the point fast.”