"Trinity Mirror regional titles, Newcastle’s Journal, the Birmingham Post and the Liverpool Post have joined forces to report on the economic situation on this live blog, happening right now, as we type this post." - David Black
"This week saw the launch of a hyperlocal news map for the Liverpool Echo, as announced by Sly Bailey at the AOP Digital Publishing Summit. It geotags news content so each user can search for news by postcode." - David Black
"The beauty of the web for local news is not only does it give us a new chance to refocus on true local news, but it makes it easier to enable the strong civic engagement that only comes when people talk with each other." - David Black
"As part of the iJournalism class I teach at the UBC j-school, I hold a session on online tools for journalists. What is striking is how much these tools have developed in the past year." [via AndyDickinson.net] - David Black
Hitwise: 3% of News and Media sites' traffic comes from paid search, on average. "News & Media and Entertainment are the least reliant on paid search, with even Government sites receiving a greater proportion of their search traffic from paid clicks." - David Black
"JP Morgan is lowering its ‘08 US display market estimate to $8.2 billion from $8.6 billion— or 14 percent year-over-year growth, versus its previous call for 20 percent growth. Looking to ‘09, the analyst is dropping its projected display forecast to $9.4 billion from $10.0 billion (representing 16 percent growth compared to his prior estimate of 17 percent gains)." - David Black
"I didn’t ask this question, although I think about it quite frequently. Mohamed Nanabhay, the Head of New Media with Al Jazeera, posed the question on Twitter - Twitterverse: If you were building a news website from ground up what would be the most important things to include?" - David Black
"Web-savvy reporters right now are the Underpant Gnomes. We’re getting better at gathering the underpants, but we don’t know how to turn them into profit yet." - David Black
"What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build." - David Black
"As the number of unique visitors to newspaper Web sites grows, newsroom leaders are contending not only with the challenge of monetizing their product but with how much moderation they can or should provide for their hugely popular user forums." - David Black
"Digg Dialogg will accept text or video questions and, using the familiar Digg voting system, questions will be voted up or down in priority according to their popularity with the Digg community." - David Black
"Consumers trust advertising on local newspaper, magazine and television websites, and are very likely to take action after viewing ads on these sites, according to the “Local Online Media: From Advertising to Action ” study by the Online Publishers Association (OPA). " - David Black
"Yesterday the site quietly opened its virtual doors for bloggers and started using Swedish blogsearch-engine Twingly to display links from bloggers below individual articles." - David Black
"Crenshaw explains the difference between "background tasking"--like watching TV while exercising--and "switchtasking," juggling two tasks by refocusing your attention back and forth between them" - David Black
"Newspapers or other Mass Media companies that each produce a common product for all users direly need to understand that people are not going online to receive a common package (even one with multimedia added to it). They are going online to search and find the contents that the common package does not regularly give them." - David Black
"American newspaper companies have violated the Principle of Supply & Demand by failing to adapt their core product to a radical change in consumers' supply of news and information during the past 15 years. The other and minor one is how far too many of those companies have deviated from their local roots." - David Black
"The latest Pew biennial news consumption survey is out and, as usual, the results offer something to latch on to for just about everyone with a stake. TV news ratings are declining? Yes, but even heavy internet users turn to TV as their main news source. Newspaper readership is still dropping? Yes, but it’s mostly print-only readers and did you notice that online readers are helping stem the tide?" - David Black
"For more than a decade, the audiences for most traditional news sources have steadily declined, as the number of people getting news online has surged. However, today it is not a choice between traditional sources and the internet for the core elements of today's news audiences." - David Black
"Online advertising spend has outpaced advertising on mainstream TV in 2007, surging 40 percent to £2.8 billion, Ofcom reported today in its hefty annual survey of the British communications market. In comparison, ad revenue at ITV1, Channel 4, S4C and Five came in at £2.4 billion. " - David Black
"Om Malik posted recently on something I’ve been thinking about a lot: namely, the tension between one-size-fits-all social networks such as Facebook and a more personalized approach using blogs and tools such as Moveable Type and Wordpress, both of which have been adding more social features" - David Black
"our digital life is spreading out across the web... We have two choices in order to consolidate these — either opt for all-purpose services such as Facebook (as tens of millions have done) or use our blogs as the aggregation point or hub for all these various services." - David Black
"eMarketer predicts that advertisers in the US will spend $24.9 billion online this year. That estimate is slightly lower than the one eMarketer released in March 2008, which said that US online advertising spending would reach $25.9 billion in 2008." - David Black
"Moving to Mobile is a growth and development guide from the Newspaper Association of America that covers the many aspects of mobile for newspapers. This includes information on advertising and local search, setting up and running mobile programs, reaching youth and the state of e-readers. It also includes case studies from newspapers finding success in this area." - David Black
Hmmmm. "I don't have a schedule for when the whole thing will function properly, since it's weird and we do have a lot of other things to work on, but we want to make it work. The people who use this are a minority of Delicious users, but I know you guys are some of our most devoted." - David Black
"While many designers have been quick to embrace web standards, it’s surprising how often the basic standards of typography are neglected. Here are ten deadly sins to avoid in your web typography" - David Black
"This simple premise holds the key to Twitter’s success: messages go to a well-defined audience... Blogging on the other hand has no such clearly defined audience." - David Black
"The internet doesn’t make us more creative, I don’t think. But it does enable what we create to be seen, heard, and used. It enables every creator to find a public, the public he or she merits." - David Black
"Comments are thought to be an added value to a newspaper's site—providing another reason to read. You come for the article, and stay for the interesting discussion. The only problem is, there is no interesting discussion." - David Black
"Professional Web programming yields very high CPMs, the report found. The CPMs for long-form online content are $40 today and will reach nearly $46 in 2013. Meanwhile, CPMs for short clips are clocking in at about $30 and will rise to a little over $34 in five years. The CPMs for user-generated video will have the smallest rise, from only $15 today to about $17 in 2013." - David Black
"Testing on My Telegraph is almost complete. The final fixes are being made, mostly to styling, and in a few days time we'll give the site a final check. While that is going on we've turned our attention to Telegraph Blogs" - David Black
"Testing on My Telegraph is almost complete. The final fixes are being made, mostly to styling, and in a few days time we'll give the site a final check. While that is going on we've turned our attention to Telegraph Blogs" - David Black
