OOOHH! I am geeking out! Imagine what we could do progressive media peeps! Especially if we were combining our collective resources and reporting. I think there's an opportunity to produce some content like this that is open (please refer to my 04-21 post) and some behind a pay wall for specialized audiences willing to pay for that content….

"As Holovaty continually points out, we are just scratching the surface of what is possible with the data underlying much of journalism — data that would be a lot easier to remix and mashup and display in different and interesting ways if newspapers identified and tagged and indexed that data when stories were being written, instead of trying to do those things retroactively. When the data that is already being collected is freed up, projects like this (a Holovaty production) all of a sudden start to become not just possible but almost easy to generate."

"MSNBC.com continues to secure the top 30 current event and global news destination sites in the month of April. The site reported 40 million monthly uniques, a 24% increase year-over-year, according to Nielsen Online."

"Most sites on the list reported gains in monthly uniques with the exception of six. The Huffington Post made the greatest advance year-over-year, up 157% — even though there is no hot election race going on."

I've started to see on a few dif. news sites, that a person's facebook profile is their handle to comment on the story. I'm looking into it, but they prob. comment on the news story AND it appears on FB, for their network to see (and then go to the original product). Am I wrong? right?

"For media Web sites, OpenID's strength is that it shares credible user information for site owners by using real user profiles (Facebook has few fake profiles compared to other sites), unlike the questionable data that fills many newspaper registration profiles or shared fake accounts from sites like BugMeNot.com.

The quality of dialogue from commenters is also likely to rise when people use real names/profiles instead of anonymous handles. Most traditional journalism organizations have been slow to adapt OpenID profiles for users, while adoption among bloggers has gained ground."

"Picard thinks that local newspapers can specialize and there we agree, but we disagree about the topics; he says they should take on national and international topics – Dallas on energy, Chicago on aircraft, Des Moines on ag – but I think their strength is in being local. And there I disagree, too, with Denton; I think that some advertisers – new advertisers never served by bit and inefficient papers – will care greatly about local and will end up helping to support the work that serves local customers….

Picard says that papers need to learn to collaborate and there, too, I agree; but he says they need to do it “throughout news enterprises” but I say they need to do it outside news enterprises, supporting and enabling networks and distributed ecosystems of news."

I want my own app! Kidding (sorda). but progressive media needs to get on mobile NOW. What's the best use? What will provide the most value AND entertainment to users?

"Msnbc.com and Zumobi announced the launch of The Rachel Maddow Show application for the iPhone and iPod touch. The free app — available here — has videos and photos, and allows users to easily access and respond to Rachel's Twitter updates. "Rachel Maddow's audience is young, sophisticated and connected," said Randy Stearns, Deputy Editor, msnbc.com."

An interview and video (In the style of "The Day in 100 Seconds) w/TPM's Vice President of Sales, Diane Rinaldo. Worth reading/watching if you are thinking ad strategy…

"Bringing on Rinaldo, who was previously director of political advertising at Yahoo, represented a major life-cycle moment for eight-year-old TPM. The site had long relied on networks like Blogads to support its operations, but further expansion would require selling space directly to advertisers at higher CPMs. The recession — with its forecasts of doom for online advertising, particularly among political sites — may have forced TPM’s hand."