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Seeing as how I’m going to be working for the Times this summer, I’ve put in a bit of thinking about the role of news, newspapers, and journalism in today’s hyperconnected world. The death of paper newsletters has been predicted for a while now, but strangely enough, they are still around. Wired Magazine, in their 15-year anniversary retrospect, highlighted one of their unfulfilled visions: “The Death of Media”. Wired called for the death of “Old Media” over and over again, but Old Media is still around, and rumors of their death are exaggerated…for now.

Simon Willison writes “Six cool things you can build with OpenID”. He suggests some site-specific hacks for OpenID, including a Last.FM mashup. [Martin Atkins][] [comments][ma comments] that a neutral method of exchanging this information would be nice, and suggests, of course, RDF. But what should we use as a URI? Why not use [Wikipedia][] URIs? They are a public resource, after all.