Where have the last few weeks gone? Where? If you're interested in the Rev 2.0 project, here are some of the post-event links I've been collecting. Reaction and feedback within USAT have been good as well.

–Visual Editors' Charles Apple talks to six of us (including Big Shiny's Kristen and Furlough Houseswap Yuri) about our event takeaways, the industry's hurdles and tweeting love. One of Steve Dorsey's lines is my favorite: "One of the coolest things that happened Saturday was there were no ranks or titles, no time for egos — just ideas and prototyping. Concepts survived based on their relevancy and function alone."

–Nieman Journalism Lab blog: "Will all of these suggestions work? Likely not. But if they get some newspapers thinking about practical changes they can make, instead of grieving over the good old days, then they will have achieved something worthwhile." (Link via Matt.)

–LAT: "A continued contraction of our business seems inevitable, but I'd guess enough advertising will be found to propel a good dose of general interest news gathering into a new era. We need some clever and energetic advertising executives to help figure it out, I'll admit. Though it sure was a lot more fun in those monopoly days, when we could afford to believe that only 'goons' worried about making a buck."

–Homepage team's Chrys Wu puts it well, "Less chat, more splat."

–Greg Linch of CoPress looks at how the lessons can apply at college publications and nails it in his lede: "College news organizations needs to move beyond advertising. Now." If you've never heard of CoPress, its mission is good. "CoPress is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing college news outlets with the technical resources they need to achieve sustainability online," the About page begins. You can learn more details and reasoning here, and the disinterested near-monopoly CoPress is fighting deserves it. I don't want to get deep into College Publisher's destructive effects on college papers' digital initiatives, but when you have two hours, let me know. Or read this CoPress post.

–If you haven't seen them, Rev 2.0 strategies and demos are here.

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