I am not foolish enough to don a flight suit and land on an aircraft carrier under a banner proclaiming "mission accomplished," but I think it's time we recognized that things have changed in the newspaper industry. The events of the last year or so -- the undeniable impact of blogging on civic life, the collapse of Knight-Ridder, the troubles at Tribune, the painful series of layoffs and "redundancies" at U.S. and U.K. newspapers -- have finally pushed just about everyone in a position of power to admit we simply can't continue to party like it's 1999.

Mark Cuban was a keynote speaker yesterday at the Online News Association conference in Washington. There were rumblings in advance of dissatisfaction with that selection because of ethical discomfort with his ShareSleuth.com project with former Post-Dispatch business reporter Chris Carey. There were some questions raised by Jeff Jarvis and Rich Jaroslovsky and I thought Cuban handled them fairly well.

So it turns out that Myspace s attracting older users than had been thought. That shouldn't be surprising; with the barrage of media coverage about the dangers of Myspace, every mother in America is trolling through Myspace for evidence of her children's activities.

Writing for editorsweblog.org, Rory Satran makes "A Case for Measured Integration" of print and online newsrooms.

Last week I attended the yearlong NewspaperNext project's unveiling of the final report. Not surprisingly, it's getting mixed reviews, depending on expectations and predispositions. Jeff Jarvis and Susan Mernit go negative.

John Burke has a thoughful commentary on editorsweblog.org in which he observes:

Over at pbs.org, Mark Glaser takes a look at the history and various labels applied to so-called citizen journalism. None of them seem to fit, making me wonder if we need to admit that these furry, warm-blooded, neocortex-driven reptiles need some other name.