David Black

“I think every newspaper on the web should at least offer the reader a choice of a reverse-chronological view of the news. I think they would find most readers would use this view, most editors would too.”

“The new Ad Manager service, which a limited number of Web sites are testing, will provide the ad serving free, where companies such as DoubleClick have traditionally charged Web publishers to serve up their ads.”

“Over the past couple of years, I’ve found again and again that WP is not only up to the task of serving as far more than a blogging platform, it’s a great content management system for many types of sites, once you learn a few tricks.”

Latest new newspaper site, for the Sunday Sun in the NE.

…and our new tourism site for North Wales.

“I’ll say no more other than to ask you to visit www.northwales.co.uk and fill in the message box below with any comments you have on the site. Many thanks, Rob Irvine, editor of the Daily Post and fretful father of a newborn website.”

“We’re using an embedded media player which, within the BBC, is known by the secret code name of the Embedded Media Player - or EMP.”

“The individual user has been king on the Internet, but the pendulum seems to be swinging back toward edited information vetted by professionals.” Hmmm.

Yahoo’s location-sharing service

“I have big hopes for Yahoo’s new FireEagle platform announced in November 2007. They first described it to me as a Twitter for location.”

“Reuters has released an API for its Calais Web service. The free service discovers entities, events and relations in text and returns the results in the form of RDF data. The services use information extraction technology from ClearForest, which Reuters

Web-based version of Google Sky

“Tim Brooks, who leads the parent company of the Guardian and the Observer… said digital technology was ’smashing our business model and at the same time it is showing us journalistically some fantastic opportunities’.”

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“Measured by the total number of diggs in this period, the novelty-based strategy for ordering stories on the home-page proved far superior to the popularity-based one.”

“According to the Pew Internet and American Life Project, the trend in tagging is growing among US web users. It found that over a quarter of online Americans - 28% - had tagged content such as a photo, news story or blog. “

“It’s an overview of some of the top trends we cover on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines. The presentation is available as a slideshow (embedded below).”

“We want to believe that media is becoming more social. And in many ways it is. But with individuals able to get what they want, when they want it, there is an equal and opposite process making media into something inherently less social.”

“Google Ad Manager is a hosted ad management solution that can help you sell, schedule, deliver, and measure all of your directly-sold and network-based inventory.”

“Google Ad Manager is one critical piece in creating the open network of networks where any site can take any ad and any marketer can advertise on any site. “

“As part of our aim to create more community tools we also have a facility to allow your friends keep up with you, to show them what you’re reading. This is what we call clippings.”

“as technology attenuates the very definition of ‘friend’ and gives us 24/7 access to thousands of these acquaintances, the idea of sharing media consumption only with the people who happen to be in the same location as us begins to look quaint…”

“InviteShare is a place to send and receive invitations to websites that are currently in private beta. Have some invitations that you want to get off your hands? Why not share them with others! “

“Two hyperlocal sites, which carry a mixture of news from Trinity Mirror’s papers, citizen journalism and other user-generated content, will launch in Coventry in April, with more to follow.”

“it does seem that plural terms are better at sending traffic to retailers than singular terms. Two thirds of the products tested performed better as plurals, with technology products in particular skewing in favour of an added ‘s’.”

“Organizing news by importance as the default makes sense when you’re only delivering the news once a day (and the “default” is all you get). But when news publishing is continuous, it’s not the best way to server frequent news consumers.”

Good post from Robin Hamman: “The only way to “do social media” is to embrace it, not just as something that’s tacked onto the back of a website, but as a method of actually doing whatever it is your business is.”

“now the distribution problem isn’t a physical limitation, but instead a problem with attention.”