David Black

On our Hamilton Advertiser launch: “the promise from S&UN is that this year will see other titles follow suit, under the supervision of a 17-strong digital team, headed by Craig Brown and John Hutcheson.”

Our new site for Hamilton.

“Trinity Mirror last week revealed the results of an audience survey conducted using a new technique created by Survey.com to identify the unduplicated reach of its regional titles, print and digital.”

Sarah Hartley: “Proudly pushing its tabloid red top into the masthead of the online product, the site’s very first utterance is a call to action for user involvement”

“Using ‘local link journalism,’ reporters can seek out and link to reporting on a story that’s been published across their local blogosphere and just needs to be pulled together.”

“On the Internet, churn is constant.”

“in a world of universal identity, a single social graph, and distributed social activities, social networks will have to compete on their ability to create an experience that can attract and retain the most valuable individuals”

“Interesting presentation at SXSW from Michael Lopp, senior engineering manager at Apple, who tried to assess how Apple can ‘get’ design when so many other companies try and fail.”

“The blue markers pinpoint the publishing centres for the country’s regional morning daily newspapers, the red markers signify evening papers, and the yellow markers represent weeklies.”

“Today, the BBC’s mobile team launched a significant release of the mobile version of bbc.co.uk.”

“There’s a newsroom; there’s a trusted news brand; it’s mobile; it’s up to date; it’s about current affairs. “