In an effort to get totally caught up, below is the longest post in the history of Journerdism.com, ever. I know what you’re thinking, “IANRTLB, Will.” But I promise there’s something worth your time in here. Or you get your money back.

• Digital Edge Award Winners announced, Yelvington is officially an Online Innovator
  Steve Yelvington wins online Innovator honors. Roanoke, Lawrence, Naples, Washington Post, ChiTrib, Vita.mn & RandomThis all pick up some pointy glass. Congrats to all the winners!

• Will It Blend?
  Online halftime extravaganza this weekend!

• Stockholm in the rearview mirror
  Toledo weekly tab moves to Sunday distribution for lucrative ads, explodes circulation to 150,000 issues (from 30,000) … Oh and free delivery. Editor comes out swinging at local daily w/legacy media monopoly. The publisher (a former Blade executive) discusses the expansion too I’ve spoke about this previously also.

• Speaking from many sides of Newmark’s mouth
  I didn’t think anyone hated Craig Newmark more than Joe Zekas, but it appears Lucas has taken that crown.

• Adrian Holovaty profile in AJR
  That’s what you get for dressing up.

• Time redesigns, it sure looks a lot like NYTimes.com, which looks like http://nymag.com/
  (I’m not sure when it launched… This month sometime)

• A video challenge from Bakersfield.com
  “Using a point-and-shoot camera and free video editing software, I bet my people could produce a video that would get as many views on an online video site like YouTube as something produced with a $1,000 camera and video editing software to match.”

• Pace Of Downsizing Accelerates
  “The media industry eliminated 17,809 jobs last year, almost twice as many as were slashed in 2005, the outplacement consulting firm Challenger Gray & Christmas Inc. reported from Chicago this week, a trend they say is expected to continue this year.”

• Forget your brats and beer: Tailgating is banned at the Super Bowl
  This is ridonkulous.

• Freedom Interactive ‘Tearing Out the Infrastructure’
  “Mathieu has gotten a budget approved to hire up to 80 staffers – it is currently up to 40 — and laid out the blueprint of what’s now being called “The Phoenix Project.” And……. it looks a lot like Gannett’s Information Center…”

• Craigslist Founder Seeks Online Trust for Journalism
  “Somehow, the craigslist community–its users and company–has constructed a culture of trust. Basically people feel they should treat others as they want to be treated. Where we start from on craigslist is in trusting people…”

• Can Brightcove Solve Net Video for Pros, Big Media?
  Awesome, LONG piece on why Brightcove is an interesting up-and-comer. If MediaStorm uses it, it must be good.

• SPECIAL REPORT: Can Online Ads Save Us?
  “Each unique newspaper online user, he notes, might bring in somewhere between $5 to $10 dollars in ad revenue. Compare that to one print reader (or one unit of circulation) at a regional newspaper, who he says brings $1,000 in revenue.”

• LA Times: The sleeper awakens
  “Our Bluffton Today was one of the case studies examined by Times reporters in their research. Can the Times be a newspaper of national stature and a family of hyperlocal, personally relevant products? This is going to be interesting.”

• News video on the cheap
  Daily afternoon pdf edition! I’m surprised more papers haven’t experimented with this earlier. … What did I just say? I’m not surprised at all that newspapers haven’t experimented.

• Origami Yoda instructions, in Spanish.
  You heard me.

• CSS Superdouche
  Daughter: Mom, do you ever get that . . . not-so-fresh feeling after building a site? Mom: But of course! Daughter: So how do you deal with it? Mom: CSS Superdouche

• Segway | Concept Centaur
  Segway introduces a 4-wheeler for the environmentally conscious hillbilly*. Btw: Where’s the flying car futuristic inventors of America? * = Not all 4 wheel drivers are hillbillies.

• Web newspaper blog traffic triples in Dec: study
  More newspapers are blogging = more people are reading newspaper blogs = OH MY! NEWSPAPER BLOG TRAFFIC TRIPLES IN DECEMBER!

• Washington Tries Its Best To Kill Internet Radio
  I’m not sure who really listens to internet radio besides sports fans that dig obscure teams that don’t play on ESPN (GO ROCKETS!) … But either way, I’m not a fan of killing many things on the internet.

• Editor James O’Shea unveils Web initiative at Times – Los Angeles Times
  “O’Shea employed dire statistics on declining advertising to urge The Times’ roughly 940 journalists to throw off a “bunker mentality” and to begin viewing latimes.com as the paper’s primary vehicle for delivering news.”

• Dear editor, anti-gay slur isn’t quotable
  Amen. Hate speech has no place in the paper or in website comments.

• They rose like a rocket and crashed with a boom
  LA Times follows up on Rocketboom breakup. Yea, I forgot about them too.

• Rocky, Milwaukee Redesigns
  Rocky Mountain News and Milwaukee Journal Sentinael redesigns on the same weekend. Related: President, Publisher and Editor John Temple (times must be tight!) reflects on the Rocky Mountain News flag redesign

• Kottke Komments – Everything you love about Kottke.org, but with comments!
  Lesson: If you don’t allow your customers to interact with each other, they’ll figure out a way on their own.

• Jon Stewart jousts Mrs. Black and White Saggy-Boobies
  iBits? Awesome.
• Rocky Mountain News – The Crossing
  For those of you that thought the AJC’a 22-part series on Katrina survivors was a lot, the Rocky Mountain news brings you a 33-part series on a bus crash. (It’s interesting so far… lets see how it shakes out.)

• Tie Camera wired to Miniature Digital Video recorder/Monitor
  Must get for my next secret expose on overpriced, cheesy spy gear.

• Wikis can be successful on newspaper sites, claims Wikipedia founder
  By ‘cultivate a community of users’ he means introduce moderators, but more power to him.

• How to ask questions for audio/video journalism
  Great questions and training for people getting into video (or audio) and how to ask questions

• buzz.mn
  Despite what the URL says, this is not the place to get your Mongolian Buzz on. It’s the Star Tribune’s sexy new community journalism product.

• Still so many questions about Naples’ Studio 55
  Curley’s doing a behind the scenes series on Studio 55

• Your video comments
  Video commenting! Go Bears

• Does my web site suck checklist?
  How’s your newspaper do on this list?

• Tools of The ‘Mobile Journalist’
  Chuck Myron is the freaking poster boy for mojos… Does anyone else at Gannett do this? He was the subject of the Washington Post article a couple weeks ago! (Via rysho)

• Apple TV selling faster than iPods
  One problem–How are we supposed to show everyone on the commuter train we’re cooler than them with an Apple TV stuck at home?

• Digg created for $200 bucks
  Remarkable.

• A good idea usually spreads — Ask sites offer journalism targets
  “The Yahoo site came to my attention because when a user posted a link to HeraldTribune.com, we got a heap of refer traffic. These answers sites might be an effective marketing tool.”

• The Need to Reinvent Journalism While We Can
  “Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) reported its annual revenue from membership and individual gifts was about $11.7 million for the fiscal year that ended in June 2006. So people are willing to pay for a very high quality product…”

• Inquirer Farewells
  Inky reporters blog about leaving the paper. Kind of ironic.

• Why You Can’t Go To Your Local Newspaper For Restaurant Reviews
  “Blocking off the archives of news articles violates the whole concept of the long tail, which explains how the internet can help companies derive value from their back stock of goods that are rarely seen or read.”

• Papervision3D Panorama
  Whoa… I think I’m gonna hurl. (via Joe Weiss)

• Metromix hiring across the nation
  Looks like Tribune’s hiring for the roll out of their Metromix product in multiple markets from Hartford to LA.

• YouTube – 100 Person Flashmob Randomly Chasing After People
  I gotta talk to Fred about organizing one of these.

• TV Jersey: About Us
  Newspaper starts TV station, online!

• Take a Blogger to Lunch (And Other Radical Ideas for Journos Struggling to Understand the Web)
  “Embracing the Web means embracing visual communication. Hate MySpace and YouTube? Think instead of Egyptian hieroglyphics — think Tufte and visual displays of information. The challenge to visual journalists is huge; 10 years into the Web and we have yet to figure out the best way to use photography. Many of our video experiments feel like TV doppelgängers — cheap imitations of the real thing. Where is the innovation? Not in most of our newsrooms.” For those of you that missed Matt and Robin’s presentation at SND last year.

• LEGO church
  Jesus Christ! Meet thy maker! Lego be thy name!

• Chicago Sun-Times Vs. Chicago Tribune
  TREND STORY! Apple/Mac commercial parody

• Building a Niche Minisite
  Anyone can do it!

• Chicagoist: Chicago Gets WiMAXed Out
  God dam I love Chicago. (DC’s getting it too.)

• Newspapers’ industrial suicide
  “The bottom line is that they are making it hard for national advertisers to buy their sites — thus, easier to buy Yahoo, Google, MSN, MySpace, et al. You see, newspapers all think they’re special. But they’re not.”

• Pew Internet: 55% of online teens use social networks and 55% have created online profiles; older girls predominate
  This just in. Teens love online social networks.

• Time to end beat reporting
  While I partially agree that beats should be switched up more often to break up bedroom deals with sources, this kind of report-on-anything-any-day approach would take some serious information infrastructure to support the same level of reporting. The whole beat system is based on developing local ‘experts’ with deep knowledge of a certain facets of the community–cops, women’s basketball, higher education, etc. Newpapes would first need to rid themselves of heir egos and start constantly sharing information and reporting notes with each other, ideally through a Derek Willis-esque “Rivers of Data” newsroom wiki so that no tidbit of information exits the building without being archived in the institutional memory and accessible to everyone in the organization. Even then, I’m still not really a fan of doing away with beats.

• The Star Press: Muncie Free Press is not Newsworthy
  Gannett’s citizen journalism effort, isn’t really interested in other local citizen journalism efforts. ::trombone wah::

• Networked journalism: Gathering data
  Using ‘the power of crowds’ to track Amazon’s jacked up pricing structure.

• A ‘good enough’ replacement for journalism?
  “To connect with the new passive majority, you need to be engaged in a broad conversation (that largely isn’t about news), and professional journalism simply has not yet figured out how to do that.”

• What Are Bloggers Doing With Their Microsoft Ferrari Laptops at Digital Inspiration I thought bloggers were a bit more altruistic than this… but it appears more than half of the folks who received free laptops (without notice or prior approval) from Microsoft with Vista installed, are keeping it. I wonder how they’d react if big media did that?

• Browning’s letter to Tony Ridder
  I had the great pleasure of working with Michael Browning on a couple multimedia projects before he passed away. He was an awesome guy. One of those legendary reporters with absolutely no ego. And he dug multimedia. He will be honored a a big this Friday at the Post, if you’re interested lemme know and I can get you details. Anyway, 12 years ago he wrote a letter to Tony Ridder about all the changes taking place at the Miami Herald (where he worked at the time) to satisfy Wall Street. It’s a pretty awesome letter, and very sad if you think about how things have gone in the past 12 years. Imagine 12 years from now where things will be. (Via Justin “Pinkie” Gilken)

• The Blogging Journalist: Los Angeles Times Columnist Joel Stein ‘Don’t E-Mail Me’
  Joel Stein is a textbook example of the media elitist snobs.

• New Voices: New Voices Request for Proposals – 2007
  Free money for new media start ups!