links for 2007-11-13

Information Squid
“Users don’t want to pay for anything, but that doesn’t mean nothing is ever paid for. Still, it’s particularly challenging to charge for social networks. ” (tags: social+media social+networks business business+models economics advertising)

Commoner Letter #3 – Beth Kanter – Creative Commons
“This week’s Commoner Letter comes from Beth Kanter, an activist and strong CC supporter. Beth has shown her support in a variety of ways, all which help to spread the word about CC and how it has impacted her own work.” (tags: nonprofits content-rights advocacy social+media)

Jeff “Columbo” Jarvis: Just one more thing on Wide Open | Writes Like She Talks
“Bloggers aren’t without ethics, as has previously been intimated by some corners. Rather, there are two sets of ethics involved (at a minimum)” (tags: blogs ethics journalism controversy adversarial tidbits+fodder)

Press Gazette Blogs – Fleet Street 2.0 » NUJ may get ‘first full-time blogger’ member tonight
“The UK National Union of Journalists may tonight admit its first member to list ‘blogger’ as his job title: Conrad Quilty-Harper, who is a freelance contributor to Engadget, the widely-read gadget blog ultimately owned by AOL.” (tags: UK blogs journalism organizations tidbits+fodder)

BBC Internet Blog – 18 Months Of Blogs (Part 1)
“The BBC Blogs Network has been running for 18 months. This provides a good opportunity to give you some insight into what we’ve been doing, how we think our efforts measure up, and where we might be headed in the future, editorially and technically.” (tags: UK blogs analysis world tidbits+fodder technology content+management tools)

Are Reporters Doomed? Cont’d « Web 2.Oh. . .really?
“They seem to think that journalists should still run the show, safeguarding the “values” family jewels. But when I look at the new media landscape I see important journalistic creations that frankly no wordmaster could have conceived. To name 3…” (tags: journalism journogeek creativity tools adversarial media+evolution tidbits+fodder)

Hear 2.0: Text Messaging – New Revenue for Radio
“Radio is no longer about selling ads. It’s about leveraging our audience relationships so as to connect listeners with clients profitably. No matter how that’s done. Radio stations and programmers owe it to themselves to investigate text messaging.” (tags: radio text+messaging relationship+building community media+evolution tidbits+fodder)

SL I-Reports: Your news of a virtual world – Blogs from CNN.com
CNN takes “I-Reports” citizen journalism to second life tomorrow (Nov. 13). “We are ready to invite the world to join us in Second Life. In case you’re wondering why CNN is doing this, we prepared a little welcome video.” (tags: mainstream+media journalism citizen+journalism virtual+worlds video multimedia tidbits+fodder)

The Joys of Being a Rube, er, that is, Blogger
“Journalists have the press credentials of a paper to back them up, whereas bloggers are any old schmuck with access to a computer. But there’s a freedom to that, and a freshness that can overcome the misspellings and such.” (tags: journalism blogging diversity perceptions perspective culture)

discover fire » Open Source Life: TrueCrypt, data security
“Who do I believe will benefit the most from using it? Those who want to store private data on some sort of encrypted drive but don’t want the hassle of connecting an external drive to their computer.” (tags: security software)

International Directory of Tree House Hotels and other Lodgings
These are MY kind of vacation spots! (tags: travel fun world)