David Black

“The media is doing rather well in reporting the crisis of the markets. A pity, then, that the markets are treating the media so very poorly. As major share prices see-saw, it is noticeable that the media sector appears to be on a perpetual slide.”

Good list from Shane Richmond. Automagic Google Reader shared items to del.icio.us posting is my number one wish.

“What we are left with is a model for estimating online newspaper revenues that if it is right is right by chance; some strategies that are either already being pursued… or have not been thought through”

Charlene Li’s presentation: “Social networks will be like air.”

“the problem with open is that it’s messy. It’s not neat and clean like Facebook. It requires work. And so I’ll be doing more work now. But most importantly, open also means a platform for innovation.”

“Google’s tool can help online publishers tweak their content to maximize traffic from search engine users. Plus, it’s a fun way to kill a lot of time.”

“Allowing people to populate their photo albums from Flickr, for example, or replace the standard status updates with a full Twitter stream, would keep people on the site for longer periods of time.”

“URL shortening service such as TinyURL or RURL are very bad news because they break the web. They don’t provide stable references because they are Single Points of Failure acting as they do as another single level of indirection.”

“In the several months since the launch of Comments, we’ve made some improvements that we wanted to let you know about.”

“What I hope we’ve created is something which is common sense. It does not restrict BBC staff from conducting legitimate activities on the Internet. But it does raise awareness of how crucial the BBC’s reputation for impartiality and objectivity is.”

“Because you chose to follow to a particular entity (person or service) then the context is already given. So witty headlines will work.”

“eMarketer projects that US companies will spend $40 million in 2008 to create, promote and distribute widgets and applications, up from $15 million in 2007. “

US: “February was a very good month for the top 30 newspaper Web sites with all but three making gains in traffic year over year. “

“If you are going to win – you are going to have be successful in planning all the story components before a word is written and then decide what dimensions of the story are best told with video, graphic, photos, text, headline, list, links…”

“the rise of the Web has vanquished the traditional once-a-day production cycle as reporters and editors in the Post newsroom file original stories to Washingtonpost.com to feed 24-hour-a-day news consumption.”

“It’s tempting to recognize the symbol as a ‘P for paragraph, though the resemblance is incidental: in its original form, the mark was an open C crossed by a vertical line or two, a scribal abbreviation for capitulum, the Latin word for ‘chapter’.”