Saul Hansell here from Seed. I don’t know whether that sort of investment will prove worth it on an ongoing basis. But we need to keep experimenting to understand both the interest in and the ways to produce quality journalism about long-tail subjects. So it is worth it this time. Moreover, that money isn’t for “event” coverage that will be of no interest in the future. We are conducting interviews with bands, some of which will become more popular over time. And we are also commissioning biographies that will be used on the AOL Music reference site.

David Weinberger’s observation that the Republicans did a better job of grilling the President than the press does.

And indeed, there are some very interesting things to observe in the iPad product spec.