links for 2007-04-19

Dagsbrun plans to launch free dailies in 10 U.S. cities. The papers will run blogs alongside the usual newspaper fare… eventually, half the paper could be filled by all the Boston blogs fit to print

“someone asked Sandy Malcolm of CNN whether they paid Jamal Albaughouti for his video from the Virginia shooting. She said that he just uploaded it. But then they contacted him and negotiated exclusivity and, it seems, payment”

“Does taking the effort to a forum like Facebook make for a skillful approach–a low-labor way of culling copy? Is it, rather, an invasive entree into an arena where regular users strive to maintain an environment based on self-regulated terms of etiquett