David Black

“some may want to take advantage of networking tools, and to socialize in some way with the other readers of a newspaper, and I think theoretically a media outlet could become a social destination in some way.”

“it doesn’t go quite far enough… In addition to building these features, the media need to bridge their communities to the ones where we already spend our time. RSS, widgets and embedded content would help here.”

“Employees (all seven of them) from Tribe will now join Cisco. The deal does not include the Tribe.net site, which will remain completely independent of Cisco. “

“Cisco’s acquiring technology assets (and software employees) on the cheap. It’s not buying consumer brands that it plans to extend.”

“Media group The Tribune Company will sell its two smallest newspapers, Greenwich Time and the Stamford Advocate, to Gannett Co. for a combined total of over $65 million, as part of its plan to sell $500 million in assets.”

“the paper was now pursuing a combined method of recording paid-for and free figures with its online audience – of 840,000 unique users a mont”

“Regional newspaper group Archant has reported a drop in operating profit – down 6.8 per cent year-on-year to £29.5 million.”

User-generated content software used by new USA Today site.

“This is a simple hack that will allow you to read your free Hotmail (No POP3 enabled) emails directly from GMail.”

“Yahoo! Pipes is a critical step forward in providing non-programmers with the tools to build their own mash-ups.”

“Bottom line is that whether you think USA Today went too far or not far enough, the reality is that the only way for them to find out was to try. So kudos to them for trying and, hopefully, learning.”