These are my links for January 16th through January 19th:

• Model for the 21st century newsroom pt.6: new journalists for new information flows | Online Journalism Blog: Breaks down the responsibilities of a new media corp. very smartly. The six roles necessary:
  • Data Miner
  • Multimedia Producer
  • Newsfeed Aggregator
  • MoJo
  • Networking
  • Community Editor
• David Ardia: Why news orgs can police comments and not get sued Nieman Journalism Lab Pushing to the Future of Journalism: re: user content online and immunity granted by “CDA section 230”
  • you do not have remove defamatory material if legal action is brought against you until the court instructs you to do so.
  • you can…
• Team Obama Told to Ditch Instant Messaging - Politics news | Newser: How backward is this!? We finally bring in a team that wants to use technology in the US government that corporations rely on and the lawyers tell them it would be too embarrassing!?
• Study: Web Ad Prices Fall, Lowering Site Revenue - AppScout: No surprise here: online ad revenue is down in Q4 2008.
• MediaShift Idea Lab . Two Coders Head Off to 'Fix Journalism' | PBS: Why does journalism need programers? “Because it’s fucking important.”
• "Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted recently as saying, “All information wants to be free," - “Google CEO Eric Schmidt was quoted recently as saying, 'All information wants to be free,'”
  -  Time for Newspaper Folks to Fight Back! Here’s How 
• Yahoo BOSS Twitter Google App Engine = fresh news | Webware - CNET: Search meets real-time with by using twitter. You get authority from the press, and news value from crowdsourcing a’la twitter
• Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay? - NYTimes.com: CNN.com is profitable, but they’re still worried about innovation, and how to make money.
• “WHICH brings us to a pivotal issue: money. While audiences for online news sites are growing, “revenue is everyone’s billion-dollar question,” Mr. Brown says.”- Can CNN, the Go-to Site, Get You to Stay? - NYTimes.com
• Twitter May Have Found Its Business Model: Twitter…what is it good for? It turns out this little service is good for a whole lot of things, despite the loud objections of people who’ve never really …
• MediaShift . The Place of Blogs in Journalism Education | PBS “The notion of blogs as immediate, uncensored and unmediated can appear at odds with established journalistic norms and practices. But it provides a valuable learning tool as it makes the students…
• Hulu - It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia This is how transparency is supposed to work folks.