Kevin: Suw and I met Matt Hanson at a recent NESTA event. This is a fascinating project not only for its crowdsourcing, but also the Swarm of Angels could easily be interpretted to mean a swarm of angel investors.

Kevin: Running the numbers with respect to newspaper ads online and in print. Grim reading. When, if ever, will online revenue make up for the decline in print revenue? Is there another solution?

Kevin: From Businessweek: “Forget reader comments and message boards. Media outfits are warming to wikis to build a solid meeting ground for their Internet audiences”. But the LaTimes’ and Wired’s wiki efforts show risks as well as opportunities.

Kevin: Ryan Sholin has a great look at the how of hyperlocal in 30 second. Well worth the 30 seconds and more.

Kevin: BusinessWeek article looks at new competitors to Second Life. The numbers look impressive, especially with Korea’s Nexon Corp’s offerings. But are virtual worlds ‘mainstream’? $1.6m revenue in February for MapleStory might suggest so.

Kevin: GarageBand pros out there can once again remix a Nine Inch Nails track. This is the kind of ‘user generated content’ that I like.

Kevin: Does the music industry stay up late and try to think of ways to kill their business model and prevent music fans from finding new music? Brilliant job guys. How many self-inflicted wounds can you take?

Suw: Democratising the music industry even more.

Suw: Just replace ‘science’ with ‘technology’. Although I bet this analogy doesn’t work with 3D mathematical modeling – they all knit.

Kevin: OK, this has nothing to do with media, but it’s damn interesting. Direct person-to-person micro-loans.

Kevin: Is online ‘newspaper’ revenue starting to make up for the decline in print advertising? Not quite, but the gap might be closing.

Kevin: Milbloggers on BBC Radio 4. Good to hear Black Five. Jason Hartley. Been there. Done that. MSM, what took you so long? You’re only two years behind the curve.

Kevin: My good friend Robert Freeman gives a tour through journalists telling stories through maps. Great round up of clever sites.

Kevin: I often say that Google isn’t a search company, it’s a search-enabled advertising juggernaut. And media should note Google’s special sauce is serving up relevant ads to interested eyeballs. Generic banners never worked.

Suw: Alice has taken fantastic notes of Will Wright’s talk at SxSW which are making my brain spin. In a good way, though.

Suw: I have an idea I’m trying to get a hold of, and this, somehow, is part of it.

Suw: Oh gods and little fishes. ‘Neuromarketing’? I don’t know whether to be fascinated or scared.

Suw: Ficlets – the internet version of writing a line of a story on a piece of paper and then handing it to the person next to you to carry on.

Suw: Seems to be launching with a dead guy in a cubicle. Class!

Suw: Would so love to play with this when its out, but not sure I want to buy a PS3 in order to do so!

Suw: At last! Someone takes notes at one of my talks! Tim Travers gets the gist of my talk in a nice, concise manner.

Suw: This is pretty much what I wanted to say. Sky’s ads on XFM have been disgustingly smug and I really hope they get their knuckles rapped.

Suw: 8 Jun 07, up in Leicester. Be interesting to see how the programme evolves.

Suw: I just like the diagram.

Suw: Guide to copyright, copyleft and everything in between.

Suw: Interesting pricing structure based on allowing the buyer to choose how much to pay.

Suw: Cory explains why he gives all his books away for free online

Suw: Must play with this one day soon.

Suw: Wired’s wiki.

Suw: I really must dabble with Dabble some time soon.

Suw: Interesting take on consulting.

Suw: Steph talks about how GTD is not about cramming more work into your life, but getting your work done efficiently so that you can go off and enjoy your spare time guilt-free.

Kevin: More than two-thirds of blog readers find blogs through links on other blogs and not search engines, and most people are looking for niche information.

Kevin: I wish I would have had this to read on the flight back from the US. A 66-page study on how news organisations are building new relationships with communities by Lisa Williams of Placeblogger.com, Dan Gillmor and Jane MacKay of Northeastern U.

Kevin: Robin writes a killer post adding some nuance and complexity to the UGC craze. To sum up, it isn’t a no-cost , silver bullet solution for what ails media. Encouraging participation takes investment and focus.

Kevin: Ewan writes about Web 2.0 tools for teaching, but he provides a really good list of digital story-telling tools – especially for stills – in a great post. Journalists and journalism students should take note and bookmark this.