David Black

“We asked a variety of people from newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, websites and the industry at large what wisdom they will take from this year into the next”

“want to just simply lay down five things that I feel make newspaper sites great. Not all newspaper sites do these things”

“Online advertising jumped 25 percent this year, raking in a cool $20 billion, but Internet executives say that figure could have been even higher if advertisers had reliable and consistent ways to measure online audiences.”

“Tagging content online is something that doesn’t seem to have taken off the way some people expected it to.”

“Nick Galvin looks into his crystal ball and explains what you need to know to survive the next decade.”

“eMarketer is forecasting US online d spending to reach almost $28 billion in 2008–with the market buoyed by the presidential election and the Beijing Olympics, among other factors.”

“My interest here isn’t in replicating lists of product releases, acquisitions, or deal flow, but in sharing thoughts on what some of the meaningful milestones were in 2007 in terms of moving social media and user-focused tools forward.”

“According to the Executive Summary of a newly released Borrell Associates study on the 2008 outlook for local Online advertising, a 48 percent increase in local online ad spending is anticipated in 2008, bringing it to $12.6 billion.”

“Today I’m unveiling a new service that I put together over the last 48 hours. It’s called hoosgot.com. Hoosgot (pronounced ‘who’s got…’) is a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for.”

Kevin Anderson: “I will admit that my motivation for the self-definition has been, in part, an act of defiance, a professional statement to the high priests of the Church of Journalism…”

“I’m focusing on advertising and search markets and the largest companies in that space, as that seems to be what’s on our collective minds these days, and it’s what I seem to have focused on in the past, as I read through my past prediction posts.”