David Black

“I don’t have a website,” she replied. “But you have a blog?” “Yes.” “Facebook?” “Yes. And a MySpace page. With 800 friends.” “So you do have a web strategy.”

“This research on blogging and other social media from Universal McCann, Comscore, Microsoft and other providers has statistics on amount of blogging worldwide and in Europe - also covers social media.” [via Ilana_Fox]

“The BBC is to roll out the next phase in the relaunch of its internet offering next week, giving its news and sport websites a new embedded video service, more pictures and added emphasis on breaking news and live events.”

“The BBC will next week unveil the first phase of the redesign to its news and sports websites.”

“‘It is very demanding to take the poll position both in print and online as VG has done in Norway. It demands a very strong focus on both platforms,’ Torry Pedersen, the editor-in-chief of Schibsted-owned VG online.”

“In this article, we’ll analyze the trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We’ll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.”

“Below is a collection of Twitter apps that I have bookmarked, posted about or Tweeted. I thought it might be useful to have them all in one place.”

“Guardian News & Media is looking to enroll all 800 of its staff journalists on a voluntary ‘digital awareness programme’ ahead of the publisher’s move to a new 24/7 integrated newsroom this autumn.”

“Civil servant Mark Thompson wants to turn the British Broadcasting Corp. into an empire on which the sun never sets. To do that, the BBC’s 50-year-old chief executive is determined to get the world to watch more British drama, comedy and news online.”

“Benton’s thesis goes like this: Eyewitness reporting rendered in real time via the blog represents an interesting and worthy kissing cousin to long-form narrative journalism.”

“This post should be called ‘the rise of the smart aggregators’ because the new big sources of traffic to this blog are techmeme, reddit, twitter, and delicious.”

“The Nice Polite Campaign to Gently Encourage Parliament to Publish Bills in a 21st Century Way, Please. Now.”

“The UK’s amazing They Work for You — citizen watchdog of government — has started a campaign calling on Parliament to put all bills in XML… That’s what I mean below when I say that I want government to be searchable”

“For those of you on the go, LinkedIn has added easier access via the iPhone/iPod touch… [and] you can now receive updates to your LinkedIn network via an RSS feed.”

“The improvements in 2.5 are numerous, and almost entirely a result of your feedback: multi-file uploading, one-click plugin upgrades, built-in galleries, customizable dashboard, salted passwords and cookie encryption, media library…”

“Online ad spend in the UK will exceed £5bn by 2012, according to eMarketer. The report predicts that online advertising spend will hit £3.4bn this year, rising to £4.3bn in 2010 and then over £5bn two years after that.”

“The number of Western Europeans accessing the internet on their mobiles will reach 125m by 2013, predicts Forrester.”

“by 2012 the Internet will reach roughly 70% of all UK residents. “

“After creating a well-structured and usable grid, consider allowing it to breath. A page without a grid is a usability nightmare. On the other hand, a grid that has creatively overlapping, escaping, or energizing columns leads to a more enjoyable user ex

“In six short months we have taken major steps to solve some of these issues, creating a consistent navigation and look and feel now being deployed across the site, making the homepage useful & personalisable…”

VG.no editor-in-chief Torry Pedersen: “he thinks online and print are entirely different disciplines, and, to his mind, being number one in both print and online requires different organisations”

Graph your Gmail: “an IMAP-based email analysis project, which generates tables, graphs & visual distributions based on time of day, senders, recipients, mailing lists, & so on.”

“We want to talk to the people who talk to the people. Talking to those people means having access to tens, hundreds, or even thousands of clients… We simply perform individual semi-structured interviews that last no longer than 30 minutes.”

“the top 25 video websites in the UK accounted for 2.22% of all UK Internet visits in February 2008, equivalent for one in every 45 Internet visits last month. YouTube is the most popular video site in the UK and the eighth most visited website overall”