Postage stamps with movie:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/09/austrian-postage-sta.html

Community manager traits
http://www.cyberjournalist.net/seven-traits-of-highly-effective-community-managers/

Future of media conference:
http://www.poynter.org/column.asp?id=101&aid=145796
Clyde Bentley, a Missouri School of Journalism professor who researches user-generated news, said, "we've had our head in the sand" about the blogosphere's impact.
The debate over bloggers' influence "is over," he said. "Blogging is a numbers game. It's there and we'll just have to deal with it." Noting that 120,000 new blogs a day dwarf the country's 1,427 dailies, he said editors should treat the blogosphere like a giant wire service.


Awesome hockey theater:
http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/07/09/casio-sk1-synth-beco.html


Digg's new suggestions system and some of the shortcomings of UGC suggested by it:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/21045/


Yahoo-Getty deal to pay flikr users for photos:
http://editorsweblog.org/mulitmedia/2008/07/yahoo_and_getty_images_strike_a_deal_tha.ph
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"Public" spaces on Internet not necessarily open to free speech: http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/T/TEC_DISAPPEARING_FREEDOMS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2008-07-06-14-17-49

NBC's mixed metrics for multiple properties during Olympics: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/07/sports/olympics/07tami.html

Is the long tail worth investing in? http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/hbsp/hbr/articles/article.jsp?ml_action=get-article&articleID=R0807H&ml_issueid=BR0807&ml_subscriber=true&pageNumber=1&_requestid=62013