links for 2007-02-21

Monocle.com will focus on — get this — “bespoke content creation”. Dan Hill: “I don’t feel the world needs five new section editors’ blogs, say, or another academically interesting but ultimately pointless mashup of feeds.”

“The McClatchy bureau in Baghdad — from which some of the best reporting on the war (going back to its Knight Ridder days) has emerged — launched a blog featuring dispatches by some of its native-born correspondents. Their first names are deleted for se

ESPN.com provides “a model for how media sites can switch customers from free to paid. Other media and Web companies should be looking hard at the ESPN model.”

Celebrity gossip blog Defamer is using Twitter to report the Oscars.

The Kansas City Star is running a web site that publishes its cartoonist’s rejected and unpublished work.