David Black

“Print is a serendipity medium where puns, clever language and cultural references can work really well. Online is an information-seeker’s medium (and that was true long before Google) where a clear and straightforward phrase wins the game.”

“I’m not getting Kindle in both senses of the verb — not buying and not understanding, both as a device and as a model.”

“Project Red Stripe: A story of innovation is a whirlwind tour looking back over the six months of the project from January to August 2007… it sets out to highlight seven tips that we think will make small scale innovation projects run well.”

Lessons from Economist Group innovation project.

“A funny thing happened while Halsey Minor was trying to kill print journalism. He ended up publishing magazines — big, heavy magazines, with beautiful pictures on quality paper — the kind he and others had declared obsolete.”

“Over at BBC Radio 4’s iPM website there’s an interesting experiment going on – and some good examples of my 21st century newsroom ideas in practice.”

“Nearly nine out of 10 households in the UK choose broadband to connect to the Internet, according to Ofcom’s second annual Consumer Experience study.”

US: “Advertising expenditures for newspaper websites increased 21.1%, to $773 million, in the third quarter compared with the year-earlier period, according to preliminary estimates from the Newspaper Association of America (NAA).”

“To my surprise and delight I have been picked to be part of the development team”

“But start squinting hard at the line that separates commercial from noncommercial and it starts to get fuzzy in a hurry. Consider the following questions. Are any of these uses truly noncommercial?”

“Even the most committed newspaper industry pessimist might begin to see a little sunshine after talking to Randy Bennett.”

“I’ve long been a fan of Pandora, Last.fm and the other major media recommendation tools… The problem I start to find with these tools is that they’re so good they shatter my meticulously-constructed illusions about my own tastes and preferences.”

“So here’s what you do next time a BIG story hits: As you send your reporters out to cover the story, get them to post short bits of news (limited to 140 characters) to a Twitter feed that either you’ve set up for this story, or that you keep ready for si

“Twitter can be a good resource to reach your audience via SMS… But you can easily pull that into a blog via an RSS feed, and really, in the age of networked journalism, it’s about your site being a hub in the network to disseminate news.”