David Black

“The real question is how long it will take newsrooms around the world to teach their editors and journalists how to write for the web, automatically implying an element of SEO.”

“If the BBC is looking for cuts in its online operations, there are a few areas that are perhaps a little too ’specialist’”

“hen I asked Backfence’s Mark Potts what he/we most need to get to the next level, he replied, ‘a business model.’ No one has a good business model for this stuff — let alone for the future of news. “

“It found that the average UK visitor to social networking sites spent 5.8 hours per month on those sites and made 23.3 visits in August. This was a significantly heavier usage level than in France, which averaged 2 hours per month and 16.8 visits per vis

New UK Harvard Business Review site. Seems to be lacking an RSS feed.

“What if Google had to design their user interface for Google?”

“Among its decisions about the future of the BBC yesterday, the BBC Trust also approved the launch of BBC.com – which will mean international users of our website will see advertising on selected pages in the near future.”

“Newspapers should, in fact, invest themselves in the success of the local blog ecosystem because doing so is good for them. Trying to build a sexier walled garden is unforgivably stupid.”

“Northcliffe Media has appointed Mike Rowley to the newly created post of Director of Digital Publishing.”

“To be truly alive, truly new, truly part of the life of its readers, a newspaper needs to be on the live web and not just the static one. It needs to flow news, and not just post it. It needs to flow rivers of news, or newsrivers.”

“Listening to some of the speakers at the J-Lab’s workshop, absorbing the talk at last week’s Networked Journalism Summit, and adding what I’ve learned from doing PressThink, the model I see emerging would combine…”