David Black

“Christian Dunn, head of digital news at the Evening Leader in Wrexham, has set up a wiki for digital journalists to gather knowledge and exchange ideas.”

“If your email is urgent I’ll tap out a reply straight away. If not, I tell myself I’ll reply later and move on to the next message. Of course by the time I get to my desk your email is underneath a pile of other emails so I answer those and yours disappe

“The short answer is what I call the “Three Cs”: Catalyze and Curate Conversations. As we roll out new features over the next year, you’ll see the ratio of conversational catalysis to traditional journalism climb.”

“The assumption is this: only 1% (10%, whatever) of people will be active contributors/prosumers/etc… One I heard recently from the Beeb was something ‘Creators, Catalysts, Collectors, Consumers’. Cute. But missing the strategic point entirely.”

“Two recent news stories remind us of some of the things that newspapers don’t (necessarily) do (any more) (1) print their own newspaper (2) write the words that go in it.”

“It has remained secretive for months… testing its engine, adding some 100,000 profiles and inserting other social networking features.”

People search engine.

“The latest Pew Research Center study on Americans’ views of their news media show falling trust, growing divides, and the emergence of media tribes.”

“Communities aren’t created by management fiat. They grow on their own. You can provide a fertile environment for yours, and nurture it with light-handed moderation and by having staff members participate in its early conversations.”

Wiki of Bivings article on improving newspaper sites.

“A new study by Yahoo has looked at the effect of online advertising on consumer shopping patterns offline, finding that online ads can increase the number of offline buyers, as well as their average spend.”

“The 30-strong team… already has plans to launch three websites by the autumn. BBC Worldwide, the corporation’s commercial arm, has earmarked 15 areas for potential online launches, or re-launches of existing websites.”

“Let’s take a look at the most interesting modern approaches to data visualization as well as related articles, resources and tools.”

“If you’ve been waiting for the straw that will break the camel’s back – the camel being the news organisations, and the back being their willingness to trade Google News’ “fair use” of their stories for traffic to their sites – here’s a candi

“It’s too messy because comments on different articles will all be bundled up in one heap and attached to the news cluster… And too orderly because only the incumbents get to take part… Will this breed a good debate? I doubt it very much indeed.”

“Google is short circuiting yesterday’s inert, rigid, vertically integrated mass media value chain – by adding a feedback loop to it, the production process is made recursive.”

“Everyone in media is about to go widgetmad but they’re thinking about it the wrong way: They are deciding what to put in the widgets (here are our headlines, take our quiz…). We should decide what we want in the widgets that we distribute.”

“VSS forecasts that online advertising will grow by more than 21 per cent per year to reach $62bn in 2011, making it bigger than newspaper advertising, which is expected to total $60bn in 2011.”

“Shift to Alternative Media Strategies Will Drive U.S. Communications Spending Growth in 2007-2011 Period; Consumer Media Usage Expected to Level Off Going Forward”

“our total media usage is declining, though what’s interesting to me is that part of this, they say, comes from efficiency” And time spent on consumer-supported media grew 19.8% (2001-6 CAGR), vs decline of 6.3% on ad-supported media.

“Executives are blaming the internet for the downturn, and are beginning to accelerate plans to take the battle to their online competitors.”

“By adapt I mean, be part of the conversation. We can’t back away from turning our web sites into platforms for community participation. On the other hand, that doesn’t mean we need to surrender to unmoderated, unfiltered, undifferentiated noise.”