Rockchucks – Innovation Incubator

Here’s some relevant and interesting things I found on the internets today:
‘It’s not journalism’ -

The essence of good journalism is asking the right questions. Google, however, won’t ask anything of those who submit comments. According to the company’s announcement, its only interest is that the submissions are authentic, not that they’re relevant or even truthful. As a result, the comments section is likely to be larded with spin, hype and obfuscation. A seemingly heartfelt comment may carry the CEO’s name, but the words will probably have been typed by corporate flacks.

How the New York Times can fight back and win – excellent list of suggestions to look into for ideas.

Let participants register on the site with their biographies and other personal information, a la MySpace and Facebook, and give them opportunities, with widgets, etc., to extend the nytimes.com menu well beyond its presently constricted state. The 12.5 million adult users who now come to nytimes.com include platinum-plus demographics, but also 3 million people who didn’t graduate from college, which gives the site some healthy diversity. Imagine the classifieds that those 12.5 million folks could post! How about looking for a man [woman] who wants to help wipe out poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa?

OJR has a lot of relevant online news information