David Black

US: “Online ad revenues are estimated to have grown 25 percent in 2007, coming in at $21.1 billion from 2006’s $16.9 billion, the Interactive Advertising Bureau reported at its annual meeting in Phoenix.”

“So while reaching the $21 billion plateau for the first time sounds great, the growth of internet ad revenues is also slowing down.”

“All this springs from a deceptively simple idea and tool. And that is what never ceases to amaze me about the internet: create a platform, make it open, and people will do things with it that you never could have imagined.”

“One thing I am seeing more and more of on newspaper websites are interactive features that provide rich ways to look at otherwise flat data.”

“While the online team has flourished, and developed a number of innovations, the profile notes that this arrangement has led to tension between the old newsroom in the city and the dot-com operation.”

‘I never realised before that it was possible to summarise all search options under the four headings “using this page”, “football gossip”, “giant reptiles” and “hello and welcome”. (I am, needless to say, talking about the new BBC homepage.)’

“We feel that running the beta page in tandem with the old homepage has been a great success and we feel that the new homepage is much stronger and more refined, thanks to your input over the last few months. “

“‘NASHUA: Just saw Bill O’reily misbehaving at Obama rallly. Shoving Obama staffer.’ With these sloppily spelled words, sent Jan. 5 by text message by John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for the online magazine Slate, did microjournalism…”

“On a message board, a student asked me why I said I was hooked on Twitter. I replied off the top of my head. Sometimes, that’s better than taking longer to compose something more elaborately thought out…”

“The official guide to house style for The Daily Telegraph, its supplements and magazines; The Sunday Telegraph, its supplements and magazines; and Telegraph.co.uk.”

“In the first part of a five-part series, I explore how and why a talent for brevity is one of the basic skills an online journalist needs - whether writing an article or employing multimedia.”

“In the second part of this five-part series, I explore how adaptability has not only become a key quality for the journalist - but for the information they deal with on a daily basis too”

“In this in-depth study, Thurman found that ‘popular’ debates on the BBC News website’s ‘Have Your Say’ attracted contributions from just 0.05 per cent of the site’s daily unique audience, and one fifth the page views of ‘popular’ news stories.”

“in this post we look at two issues that make this new economic model rather worrisome: monopolistic markets and complex transactions.”

“It would appear that an earthquake was just felt across the UK (hopefully not a major one!). Where did the news first break? Well, we heard about it over Twitter.”