David Black

“The Net is a giant zero. It puts everybody zero distance from everybody and everything else. And it supports publishing and broadcasting at costs that round to zero as well.”

Report on the “rise and prospects of hyperlocal journalism”

Jeff Rayport’s five “E”s of online video journalism: extend, expand, expose, explode, and exhale…

Jeff Jarvis on the race for innovation and the choice between “centralized architecture (the value of coming to The Times, what I now call the Yahoo model) vs. decentralized, distributed structure (going to where the people are; the Google model).”

Following the ‘death of the page impression’ audience measurement debate, Yahoo’s Head of Insights argues for visits as a critial audience currency.

I love the tumblelog concept - quick-and-dirty, loosely-structured blogs with quotes, photos, postings and other bits of interest. Here’s a tool I’ve just come across to create them with.

RSS use extrapolated from Bloglines stats: “With nearly 20,000 subscribers (giving us an estimated 125,000 total usage), The Guardian is the clear winner… with a staggering 50 times the subscribership of nearest print rival, The Telegraph.”

On the latest ABCs: “Some 452,000 national daily sales have disappeared in a year… Meanwhile, websites are buoyant. Journalists’ words are read more widely than ever.”

“The BBC has called on online media owners to ditch monthly unique users as a measurement currency in favour of weekly unique users.”