Gerd Leonhard: TheEndOfControl

Official Google Reader Blog: The Guardian offers full-length RSS feeds now - great!

Link: Official Google Reader Blog: Reading The Guardian, full-text style.
"The Guardian just moved all of their RSS feeds from partial to full-text. They are the first major newspaper in the world to do so, and this is, well, great news..."  Openness wins.

New York Times Publisher on Whether There Will Be a Print Edition in 10 Years: "Walled Garden Era is Over"

Link: New York Times Publisher on Whether There Will Be a Print Edition in 10 Years: ‘We Can’t Care’... via FolioMag.com.

"Embracing the hyperlink ethos of the Web to a degree not seen before, news organizations are becoming more comfortable linking to competitors acting in effect like aggregators. Fundamentally we are addressing a common desire for comprehensiveness. The desire of people to find the news and information that they want from their most trusted sources. The era of the walled garden is over."