David Black

“It’s another thought exercise in trying to figure out how to discover what journalism should be to better serve today’s society.”

“The issues facing journalism today are not a technology problem, but an audience problem. Declining readership did not begin in 1994, when the web began to take hold.”

“2007 was another boom year for the Internet in the United Kingdom. Almost 37 million people went online in an average month—that’s over 60% of the population.”

“New York Times Co, USA Today publisher Gannett Co, Los Angeles Times publisher Tribune Co and San Francisco Chronicle publisher Hearst Corp have set up a stand-alone company called quadrantOne to oversee the aggregation of audiences.”

“Johnston Press has hired former AOL UK strategy vice president Lori Cunningham as its digital strategy director.”

“Google on Wednesday said it has seen 50 times more search requests coming from Apple iPhones than any other mobile handset — a revelation so astonishing that the company originally suspected it had made an error culling its own data.”

“For me, it works because: 1) News is posted in real-time 2) News is localised (and relevant)
3) News can be consumed (or not) on the go 4) It uses nothing more than Twitter’s @ prefix and combines common identifiers for locations.”

“Commuter Feed is a free service that lets you post reports on traffic and transit delays in your local area using Twitter.”