David Lazerus: "blogs will continue sprouting like crab grass throughout the electronic ether. Soon, the line separating quality journalism from utter hokum will be too blurry to discern." (I discern some hokum!)

"The Swiss town of Sitten, in Wallis kanton, wants to introduce a policy that is meant to make distribution of free dailies difficult and expensive … "

Jaron Lanier: "To help writers and artists earn a living online, software engineers and Internet evangelists need to exercise the power they hold as designers. … We could design information systems so that people can pay for content."

"Pearson … the publisher of the Financial Times, said a Rupert Murdoch-controlled Dow Jones & Co Inc could be a threat in Europe but might provide a boost to the FT in the United States."

Kevin Rose: "The Wall Street Journal Online is adding Digg buttons across the entire site, and you’ll now have full (free) access to the articles submitted to Digg."

"A top business-side executive at Dow Jones & Co. said it is premature to assume that The Wall Street Journal Web site will definitely drop its paid subscription model, despite comments by Rupert Murdoch that the change is expected."

Rupert Murdoch: "We are studying it and we expect to make that free, and instead of having one million (subscribers), having at least 10 million-15 million in every corner of the earth,"

"News Corporation chairman Rupert Murdoch said today the group was continuing to consider making the online version of the Wall Street Journal free, once News Corp formally takes control of Dow Jones next month."

Richard Sambrook says BBC.com will launch later this month, and will be trialing an subscription model alongside the new ad-supported site.

Tim Harford: "Matthew Gentzkow, an economist at the University of Chicago, recently published research that suggests that there has been no expensive mistake. Both the subscription model then and the advertising model now were likely to have been reasonab

"Matthew Gentzkow, an economist at the University of Chicago, recently published research that suggests that there has been no expensive mistake. Both the subscription model then, and the advertising model now, were likely to have been reasonable choices.

"Freesheet Metro racked up losses of more than €8.3m during its first 15 months on Dublin’s streets."

"News Corp. will probably end subscription fees at WSJ.com and will open the MySpace social- networking Web site to developers in a push to add readers and advertisers, Chairman Rupert Murdoch said."

"According to traffic measurement firm Compete, the opinion section of the Times websites has seen traffic more than double since the move, and overall traffic to the newspaper’s site is up by 10 per cent."