Links for January 6th

These are my links for January 6th from 00:38 to 02:52:

• Blogging, a new journalistic genre ? | Monday Note – Pretty strong argument that blogs are a great new form of journalism. Problem: they don't make money. Adverts don't value them and they just don't generate the pageviews an article does.
• What is literacy? BuzzMachine – If online journalism is expected to work, the audience must be able to do the following: Media literacy, then, must embrace all those activities and skills, not just reading but: * knowing how to focus on a need for information and express that by crafting a query to find an answer; * knowing how to judge the relevance and reliability of sources – including the PageRank-like skill of judging sources on sources; * knowing how to create (and remix) content across all media types; * knowing how to collaborate; * understanding the impact of facts on perspective and perspective on opinion; * understanding the impact of identity and anonymity; * understanding the relationship of pieces of information that make up a larger story via links; * understanding how to make and find corrections
• On The Media: Transcript of "You Are What You Is" (November 28, 2008) – Jeff Jarvis makes a good case for convergence. The media is now a singular: no longer do jounos choose, video, print, photo, whatever. We're cross-medium.
• Twelve months of top journalism blog posts in 2008 Christopher Wink – Title says it all. It's a pretty darn good list of the top posts of last year. Worth reading through the list at least.
• HuffPo Worth $200M? Em, More Like $2M – Business news | Newser – Sounds like the $25 million dollar investment that HuffPo just got may have inflated the value of the blogging newspaper. Instead of the $100-$200 million the investment was based on, it might be worth closer to $2 million. Ouch.
• Reflections of a Newsosaur: Newspaper share value fell $64B in ’08 – A look at the stock prices and market cap. of the major newspapers in 2008.
• The Turning Gate / TTG iPhone Portfolio – iphone friendly photo gallery direct from Lightroom: Cool!
• Lee Enterprises: A poster child for the ownership crisis | yelvington.com – Steve Yelvington breaks down the economic crisis for newspapers: 1. The internet means long term changes, newspapers weren't ready. 2. Global economic crisis = less adverts = less income. 3. Newspapers borrowed when the borrowing was good, and are in the same place as everyone else in this economic crisis. They debt they can't pay back.