David Black

“rather than just having reporters gather facts and fuse them into a “blob” that is unreadable by machines (aka, a news story), Holovaty wants to also see news organizations compiling that information into a database format that can be easily browsed”

“When I published the news diamond model, a number of commentators from Brazil and Portugal compared it with João Canavilhas’ ‘Tumbled Pyramid’ model, which looks at online reading patterns and suggests a new way to structure online journalism.”

“The popularity of the online versions of the UK’s leading national newspapers has increased at three times the rate of overall UK internet growth, a survey has concluded.”

“Local newspapers celebrated today as the BBC abandoned plans to introduce an ultra-local TV service on satellite.”

“In order to attract new generations of local news viewers, significant investment is planned in developing an online broadband multi-media interactive offer, MyLocalNow, subject to approval by the BBC Trust.”

“You can see Facebook updates and photos with a click, scroll through Flickr photos, drag and drop your own photos on a friend in your People sidebar to share them, post something to a blog and even use your sidebar as a notebook for future blog posts…”

“The Post is aiming to bridge the cultural gulf by bringing 20 print people over to the website for a few days. The aim is to communicate the difference between mediums… By comparison, USAToday has moved to integrate the print and online operations.”

“According to panelists at the Web 2.0 Summit on Thursday, startups that fight to be the next “It” platform probably won’t survive the Web 2.0 era. Startups that fight to be a part of the platform have a far better chance.”

“Consider this my first attempt at a photoblog entry.”

“That’s the essence of Web 2.0. Data has limited value locally, or walled off on a single site. But pool that data, and the whole becomes much greater than the sum of its parts, allowing everyone who puts data in to take much more value out.”

“This is my attempt at live-blogging the ONA panel on the future of news at the CBC in Toronto with Leonard Brody of NowPublic, Rahaf Harfoush, who did research for Don Tapscott’s book Wikinomics, and Andrew Keen, author of Cult of the Amateur.”

“I’m in Toronto for the annual Online News Association conference. I’m one of the early members of ONA but haven’t been at one of these gatherings in some time. Lots of heavy hitters from online news organizations here.”

“Anil made this astute observation, ‘Journalism is the culture of infallibility.’ Josh said, ‘The fear of failure can stall innovation’.”

“Carr et al also ignore the economic reality of Google and the link becoming the new means of media distribution. If you hide your stuff, it cannot be found. And so long as you are hidden, your competitors will grab that distribution and marketshare…”

“Last month, the New York Times discontinued TimesSelect, the program that required readers to pay a subscription fee to read popular columnists and access the paper’s archives”

“Both the subscription model then, and the advertising model now, were likely to have been reasonable choices. Free online access makes more sense now… because the online advertising market has matured.”

“Using new micro data from Washington, DC, I estimate the relationship between the print and online papers in demand, the welfare impact of the online paper’s introduction, and the expected impact of charging positive online prices.”

“Online media can take advantage of network effects which offline media cannot… the Times’ opinion pages, possibly the best raw material for blogging and online discussion, didn’t participate in that virtuous cycle for the past several years”