Monday squibs

Semester has started, so posting comes a little late today. Nevertheless:

• Daylife inside out. David Weinberger has the best look yet at the new Daylife news aggregation site. He says the real power is buried within.
• Under the Sun. File this under disrupting the weather forecasters: Smart Mobs reports on a patent filing for a way to get up-to-the-minute, location-specific UV ratings from cellphones.
• Newspaper sites criticized for publishing inappropriate comments. The downsides of allowing comments on newspaper web sites: it draws some idiots. To my mind, not a big deal: police the comments and toss the trash. You’re already reading the comments (if not, you’re only drawing part of the benefits), so hitting the delete button every so often will keep ‘em clean and win points with readers.
• Cheap cameras aren’t the biggest issue. Angela Grant argues that the issue isn’t whether journalists can shoot video with consumer-grade equipment, it’s about how they are using that equipment. Another reminder there’s a learning curve that goes with the adoption of video by print reporters/shooters.
• Web hath no fury like a Girl scorned. Martin Stabe on how the echo chamber of blogging can affect your personal Google results. A cautionary tale that could have also been titled “Revenge is a dish best served up by Google.”
• Time to end beat reporting. Howard Owens makes a persuasive case in a debate worth having.
• Sunday Papers. Mark Potts wonders where the Sunday newspaper went and where the Sunday web edition should be going.
• Gallup Finds 44% Still Read Newspapers Daily — As Web Reliance Cools. At Editor & Publisher, which reports that the decline in newspaper readership seems to have stabilized, at least as measured by Gallup. Via Media Bistro.
• Needed: More Excellence in Journalism, Part 1. Tom Stites, guest blogging at Dan Gillmor’s place, kicks off a four-day, four-part series, which is also available as a one-shot PDF file.