I’ve been light on the posting this week because we’re trying to get out a new Digital Edge report out on newspaper Web sites incorporating social media elements (we’ll release it today or Monday), another D.E. report on political advertising on newspaper Web sites, we’re preparing to announce the Digital Edge Award finalists early next week! And… and…

But, I wanted to point out a few things that are worth checking out on a coffee break.

Inspirational Digital Media Projects
Corporate
Kathy Schwartz and the Pocono Mountains Media Group (owner of The Pocono Record) sent along an audio slideshow on the newspaper’s transformation in the past year to focus more on multimedia. Kathy, who is a member of the Digital Media Federation Board, was asked to put together a “success story” for a corporate meeting, and she decided to highlight the newsroom’s true print/Web convergence. 

Editorial
The Arkansas Democrat Gazette put together a multimedia timeline focusing on a mother raising her children while her husband served in Kuwait. It’s a very good localization of a national story, and it’s a well-done multimedia project.

Blog
Poynter Online is starting the process of redesigning the Web site, and the editors there are sharing the process through a new blog called Poynterevolution. You can weigh in throughout the redesign process.

Debate
I think the headlines pretty much tell the story here.

Unfettered ‘Citizen Journalism’ Too Risky, by David Hazinski (op-ed, Atlanta Journal Constitution). Hazinski is an associate professor of telecommunications and head of broadcast news at the University of Georgia's Grady College of Journalism.

Needed: Regulation to Prevent Journalists-Turned-Professors from Embarrassing Themselves, by Dan Gillmor on his Center for Citizen Media blog in response to Hazinski’s op-ed.

Citizen Journalists: They Don't Need to be Regulated, by Leonard Witt (response op-ed, Atlanta Journal Constitution).