Chronicle of Higher Education: Extra! News Blogs by Students Grab Eyeballs

"Onward State is part of a national wave of student-run Web outfits determined to reinvent college journalism. ... n general, they only get together like this once a week. ... Onward State is a virtual organization whose members do much of their business digitally. Even gathered within feet of one another in the lab, staff members continued to scroll through the tiny profile pictures of the various social networks open on their computers. ... Google Wave ... is their version of hollering across a newsroom. They use it to run the editorial operation."

Paul Conley: New-Wave News

"[The] world of B2B content has transformed into a limited marketplace of ideas. ... Twitter -- at least in most B2B verticals -- is a media phenomenon. Most tweets come from journalists, marketing execs and public-relations pros. If you're a reporter for Paper Bag Weekly walking the floor of the Paper Bag Expo trade show, you're likely find dozens of folks tweeting. But they will nearly all be someone from the media side of the paper bag industry. You can read tweets from flacks and tweets from hacks, but you won't find a tweet from anyone who actually makes a paper sack. The obvious exception to this is in tech."