David Black

Didn’t get a chance to blog Seamus’s report on Google’s 10k last week: “The search giant generated UK revenues of $2,530m ($2.5 billion) or £1,265m (£1.3 billion) during the whole of 2007, 15% of their global total $16.6 billion. “

“Google (NSDQ: GOOG) filed its annual 10-K report with SEC this Friday, and not much in it that we don’t know already, but good to get a yearly perspective on umbers, rather than the quarter-to-quarter we all chase. “

“As you can see from the chart below, UK Internet traffic to a Hitwise custom category consisting of the top 100 Polish language and community websites increased nine-fold between January 2006 and January 2008.”

“The Newcastle Evening Chronicle has launched a multilingual blog. Poles to Newcastle is a dual Polish/English blog on ChronicleLive.co.uk aimed at the Polish community living in North East England.”

“researchers from the Office of Communications (Ofcom) found that just 16% of mobile users polled had accessed the Internet via mobile phone in the third quarter of 2007, while 10% had used their mobile phones to send or receive e-mail. “

“By looking at what the NYTimes interactive team has done, often with very small time frames, we can see examples of what is possible. From their work, we can learn new ways of presenting complex information in fun and engaging ways.”

“Usually, applications fail because they (a) solve the wrong problem, (b) have the wrong features for the right problem, or (c) make the right features too complicated for users to understand.”

“To me, the quote below, is the perefect illustration that this is not new media - to my my mind, new media is just digitalised old media - but social media. And essentially, the latter is not so much about the tools as about the mindset.”

“For my talk on multiplatform science reporting for the Knight science journalism symposium, I prepared a cheatsheet on how to successfully produce a multimedia story.”

“A recently released comScore Video Metrix service report, revealed that U.S. Internet users watched more than 10 billion videos online during the month of December 2007″

“I’m currently working on a project to investigate how the BBC might use one-click social bookmarking and recommendation service links across our content.”

“Have a look at your sites. They probably follow the pretty standard UK model…. But hold on a minute. “

“Journalists developing newspaper web projects need to beware of falling into the trap of received wisdom, according to a digital media consultant who is working to train regional newspaper online editors at the University of Central Lancashire.”

Jay Rosen: “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…”

“The rise of ‘freeconomics’ is being driven by the underlying technologies that power the Web. Just as Moore’s law dictates that a unit of processing power halves in price every 18 months, the price of bandwidth and storage is dropping even faster.”