links for 2007-07-22

• Susan Mernit's Blog: Fads of the moment: 10 things we can learn from Facebook
  "We want to be local, not global. Local is a state of mind."
  (tags: social+networks social+media local)
• Steve Outing » Why newspapers should give it away free
  "Reading habits — especially among younger people but certainly not limited to them — lead away from print. Papers must present their product (news coverage) online and to mobile devices — and of course make money from that."
  (tags: newspapers media+evolution tidbits+fodder business)
• Open Source » Blog Archive » We Interrupt This Program…
  "We learned late last week that a brand-name media company that had asked to partner with us had changed its mind. So for now, the best hope on the near horizon of relaunching the program and refinancing it has gone aglimmering."
  (tags: problems radio blogs money conversational+media community tidbits+fodder)
• “Hackers Can Now Deliver Viruses via Web Ads” Wall Street Journal Headline Exaggerates the Danger - The Internet Patrol
  "For the most part, the only way that clicking on a link in an ad could cause something to be downloaded to your computer would be if the source code for the ad was provided by some 3rd party, not one of the trusted online advertising vendors."
  (tags: advertising media business credibility problems journalism tidbits+fodder)