Thought For The Day: ““We’re having a word wide going out of business sale.” It’s that serious. Clearance sale time. Everything must go.” – Dave Winer

• Facebook Prepares To Launch FriendFeed “Like” Feature
  Consolidating platforms into single communications channels is trend number 2 right after defriending. “Something happening here. What it is ain’t exactly clear.”
• Bloomberg and Urban Population Centers
  New York’s mayor says, roughly, “No one lives in a  shelf life state. They live in cities.” It’s true.
• How investigative research happens in the blogosphere
  Dave Winer is thinking hard about journalism these days. He should be talking to Howard Rheingold. This piece takes a look at the boundaries between pro and amateur journalists (if there are any outside of funding).
• Some really interesting tidbits are travelling through the Twitosphere. Unfortunately, there’s no way to bookmark a twitter conversation (or friendfeed or facebook). For interesting sample, see Clay Shirky or Dave Winer. Without completely printing it out or saying “Read this, then this, then this, then this“, you’d never get:
  1/4 Newspapers problem with online ad market isn’t that the market is small, it’s that the market is fair
  2/4 The owner of a local 1,000 reader newsletter can only get a tiny fraction of the ad dollars a 100,000 reader city daily can
  3/4 A 1,000 reader site, otoh, can get exactly 1% of the AdWords $ that a 100,000 reader site can; the 100K can only get 100x the 1K.
  4/4 The ad market used to be unfair, with disproportionate rewards for size. No more. Now revenue above AdWords costs more & returns less.
• Have you seen RecruitingBlogs.com “An Hour With“
  The new feature  shelf life is getting some interesting traction. It’s an outgrowth of a long conversation about intimacy in the community.