Where record-level startup investments really went in 2011, finding the line between collaboration and competition, and tracking two legacy newspaper trends: paywalls and front page local news.

<a href="http://venturebeat.com/2012/04/11/east-coast-west-coast-dynamics/" target="_blank">How West and East Coast dynamics help startups succeed</a>
Philip Moyer reveals an investment footprint of $30B of capital was deployed in 2011, a record year since 2001. And only $11.6 B was invested in Silicon Valley. Curious where the rest of it went?

<a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/04/why-the-denver-post-is-putting-more-local-news-on-a1/" target="_blank">Why the Denver Post is putting more local news on A1</a>
Metro coverage moves to the front as Denver’s major paper cuts pages. Why? Editor Greg Moore: “That’s the unique, unduplicated content that you can only really get from your local newspaper.”

<a href="http://streetfightmag.com/2012/04/09/hyperlocals-need-to-pay-attention-to-red-flags-in-user-content/" target="_blank">Hyperlocals Need to Pay Attention to ‘Red Flags’ in User Content</a>
“Copyright law offers some immunity to hyperlocals for content uploaded by the user…” but keep an eye on the Viacom v. YouTube lawsuit for potential wide-reaching judgments.

<a href="http://www.niemanlab.org/2012/04/wait-so-how-many-newspapers-have-paywalls/" target="_blank">Wait, so how many newspapers have paywalls?</a>
150 or 300? Help in tracking this clearly growing trend. “Turns out the lesson here is one we keep learning again and again: The news business is changing, and it’s changing fast.”

<a href="http://www.socialmedia.biz/2012/04/09/how-sales-and-marketing-can-collaborate-in-social-business/" target="_blank">How sales and marketing can collaborate in social business</a>
Publishers and the B2B world may have more in common than you think. Market disruption by way of social collaboration offers important lessons in connecting with your community.

<a href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/welcome_to_wall_street_the_instagram_buy_is_all_ab.php" target="_blank">Welcome to Wall Street: The Instagram Buy Is All About Facebook’s Investors</a>
A bottom-line analysis of $1B buy reveals the biggest players in the market still need to keep it fresh. Question is: can “Facebook...open new revenue streams even as its user growth levels off”?

<a href="http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2165443/display-ads-grown" target="_blank">Display Ads All Grown Up</a>
Google AdWords Display Network just turned nine years old. ClickZ’s Lisa Raehsler, search engine marketing expert, helps us understand how this plays to content producer’s core strengths.

<a href="http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2012/04/collaboration-competition-and-consolidation-where-is-the-line095.html" target="_blank">Collaboration, Competition and Consolidation: Where Is the Line?</a>
Josh Stearns draws a line between collaboration and consolidation as “a partnership among separate and independent entities...” The other “results in one news organization co-opting another.”