David Black

“Online ad spending remains strong on both sides of the Atlantic, but two reports examining growth rates shows U.K. edged out the U.S., based on the pace of spending, during the first half of 2007.”

Bruno Patino, Vice President of Le Monde: “In France, the small size of the market made it interesting to include revenues from a limited amount of subscribers, unlike the huge English-speaking market.”

“What we should be doing instead, of course, is moulding media to new technology. We should be asking what new we can do on this new iPhone.”

August Netratings stats: “The ten most popular national newspapers in the UK in terms of audience size, growth and the time spent on the sites, according to new data from Nielsen//Netratings.”

Presentations from last week’s AOP conference.

“But at the same time there’s a growing sense that elements of social networking is something all good sites should have, not just dedicated social networks.”

“Companies tend to make use of them to draw users’ attention to their latest products. And users literally can’t stand them, because splash pages usually take a long time to load and provide (almost) no navigation options — except of “entering the

“Came across a new UK news service this morning via a Technorati link back to this blog – SaysWho?, a new service that aggregates bloggers who have commented on stories from a (currently small) selection of UK newspaper websites.”

“Talking Back to the Press”

“This process is happening via several major movements: The rise of APIs; The proliferation of vertical applications that run on top of existing data; An increase in classic Semantic Technologies and Microformats; The spread of RSS as an information deliv

“We’ve praised news sites for adding reader commenting…However… Readers of news sites (and blogs) go to those specific destinations to read news in the voice they expect — not to see a public argument from commenters.”

“…the Toronto Star reportedly abandoning (E&P) its afternoon PDF TorontoPM on grounds that ‘time moves on, technology advances, and new, improved products replace old ones’.”

“Increasingly, they say, too much media depends on advertising as the only source of revenue. With new players from software makers to cable operators also trying to cash in, the dollars simply may not stretch far enough.”

“the big problem is not that ad spending is drying up, it’s that the bulk is concentrated in a few sites. Citing the IAB, Reuters points out that the top 50 websites in the U.S. took in more than 90 percent of the revenue from online ads in H107″

“people online generally are more actively engaged in doing things and probably have less inclination to view ads, even more targeted ones. Advertisers instinctively know this. So I wonder if ad spending will ever catch up to the amount of time spent onli

“We are reaching a point where the number of inputs we have as individuals is beginning to exceed what we are capable as humans of managing… Human attention does not obey Moore’s Law.”

“Search is the leading edge of this second wave of consolidation — what we might call the consolidation of “attention allocation,” to give it a larger frame than search.”

“The proliferation of blogs written by scientists (biology blogs being the most popular, followed by physics and climatology) means that the scientific discourse that used to take place behind lab doors is now open to everyone.” [via Martin Stabe]

“The reshuffle means that teams responsible for managing ABC’s print-based media members will now take charge of all multi-platform content produced by these groups.”

“In the last four years, the share of time devoted to viewing Content online has experienced the greatest growth, increasing from 34% to 47% of time spent, outpacing all other activities. There are a number of factors contributing to Content’s rapid rise.

“As a group, they’ve experienced 30 per cent growth which is particularly impressive considering the online audience itself has grown by just more than 9 per cent in the same period.”

“I want del.icio.us to look at my bookmarks and recommend not just other URLs I might be interested in, but also other users whose tastes are similar to mine.” Wonder when del.icio.us will finally get features like this?

“Neuromarketers use sophisticated brain-imaging technology to test consumer response and help clients fine-tune their strategies”

“So contrary to all the reporters’ claims Burton did not find that there were 9 scientific errors in An Inconvenient Truth, but that there were nine points that might be errors or where differing views should be presented for balance.”

“Journa-list is an independent, not-for-profit website that makes it easy for people to find out more about journalists and what they write about.” [via Phil Gyford]