"Textbooks have not gone the way of the scroll yet, but many educators say that it will not be long before they are replaced by digital versions — or supplanted altogether by lessons assembled from the wealth of free courseware, educational games, videos and projects on the Web." – the problem is quality.

Michael Sokolove writes an in-depth piece on the woes of Philadelphia's daily newspapers.

"I tried, on Sunday, to come up with what a good policy is for using hyperlinks in a blog post. I can’t think of a hard and fast rule, but it tends to come back to a single basic principle that you probably all learned early in life: Don’t Be A Douchebag. We try very hard to live by that rule here at WeLoveDC, and I’d say with regard to linking-without-excessive-copy&paste we do very well indeed."

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Covering poverty: A tool kit for journalists is a Web site for journalists who want to improve coverage of poverty on any beat." – via Doug Fisher

"With a deep recession compounding the news industry’s own structural economic crisis, four out of ten journalism and mass communications graduates have been unable to find full time jobs, according to a new survey from the University of Georgia." Yuck.

"If you’re under 25 and use Twitter, you’re not the source of the site’s tremendous growth. While we recently questioned the findings of a largely anecdotal report from Morgan Stanley written by a 15 year old, Nielsen has now produced figures that confirm the trend: young people don’t Tweet." – I'd be interested to know how those figures change over time. Just because they don't tweet now doesn't mean they won't in the future.

"Journalism has always been about reporting facts and assertions and making sense of world affairs. No news there. But as we move further into the 21st century, we will have to increasingly rely on "data" to feed our stories, to the point that "data-driven reporting" becomes second nature to journalists." via <a href="http://www.journerdism">Will Sullivan</a>

Dying is easy. Comedy is hard. Milbank and Cillizza should be ashamed of their performances in this shoddy production.

Time and continuing passion.

"So, reporting. When I get a new set of data, I spend a good deal of time deciding what's important, and where a story is. I might run it through a visualization tool, like ManyEyes. Starting with data but no story tends to be a slow process. Ending up with a story but no data makes me feel like I haven't done my job. "

"Launched as a Christian Science Monitor project by Dante Chinni and James Gimpel to cover the 2008 election, this incarnation of Patchwork Nation will evolve to cover more communities and more topics, with a focus on the economy and how it affects different sorts of communities." – see Chris Amico's "lessons" for more.

We’ve reached the point where having journalism students take one isolated class about “online journalism” is not sufficient.

Ideally, online reporting and editing skills (and associated ethics) would be integrated into every reporting and editing class. If that’s not happening, then your program will need to offer specialized courses. Here are a few guidelines:

The journalism department at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks will soon have more reporters in Iraq than many major American newspapers.

Three undergraduate students and a professor leave this week for Diyala Province in Iraq, where they will spend nearly a month embedded with U.S. troops. They plan to eat, sleep, and travel alongside members of an Alaska-based Army Stryker Brigade Combat Team, while filing daily articles for news organizations and for their student newspaper, The Sun Star.

The Washington Post on Wednesday is unveiling a new mobile version of its Web site as it seeks to catch up to the competition in the mobile arena and exploit a rare area of promise for newspapers.

NYT's time wasting interactive graphic on time management.

"Blogging remains a place where people can put forth ideas and insight, unfettered. But as a place for conversation and the pursuit of knowledge? Its use is limited, which is fine. Different jobs require different tools."

Doug writes: "The publishing industry seems to think it is going to force people to do its bidding. No longer. They are like water and will seek their own level. Very little of what we do is so essential to running their lives that they could not survive with only a digest."

Four old-media veterans may have solved the future of news with the Politico Web site, whose audience of six million obsessives and insiders consumes–and feeds–a real-time download of power data. The twist? Politico’s print version is what’s helped make it profitable.

Because it's all about the journalism.