"being part of Poach in the end didn't appeal to us, because of you, our readers" neat!

more on ExplainThis...which apparently doesn't exist yet?

nice point-by-point response. I'd pretty much agree with everything here.

"The Murdoch plan is, however, in the estimation of almost anybody whose full-time job is occupied with digital business strategies, not just cockamamy but head-scratching."

with clear criteria, evaluates journalism about medical issues.

not sure how this compares to the same thing in Oly (a project for OlyBlog or Everyday Olympia, perhaps?), but it makes me think that I should start loading up my bike at the Safeway on the way home.

oooh, I was waiting for this! would love to play around with this for oly.

"Research has shown that experts make predictions at a rate worse than chance. This site exists in order to hold people and media outlets accountable for pretending to see into an unpredictable future."

"The logic seems to be along these lines: 1. These things look bad. 2. Icelanders are good. 3. Therefore these things can’t be true. [...] Unfortunately most of the points Mr. Moody picks up on as not true, are in fact true." and then, hey, back the other way. journalism at its best? or at least it's interesting to me to see the back and forth, weaving towards some sort of truth. (And yeah, Moody didn't so much as touch the central issues around over-education, machismo, and hubris.)

"If you didn’t know any better, you’d think we were a sitcom waiting to happen. [...] Unfortunately, none of this is exactly true. If you want to get the story right, the article’s more colorful details deserve a reality check." d'oh!

A little bit "get off my lawn" but some reasonable points nonetheless. (Winer is a goof, Johnson is hand-wavey about the money, and Shirky shrugs about WTF is actually gonna happen. Which, oddly, may be the more important contribution to the debate, esp the references re: early years of printing.)

set of infographics, including map

"That is what real revolutions are like. The old stuff gets broken faster than the new stuff is put in its place." I think dylan said that Clay wins the debate over the future of newspapers. also, I might try to track down that book, assuming it's not deadly dull.

actual text of the presentation, includes the chart I had trouble summarizing yesterday.

"Beginning in January, my plan is to spend six months or so writing about trends and best practices in the field, both in the U.S. and abroad." sounds fascinating.