David Black

“we’ve been hard at work making quotations in news articles easy to search and browse. You can now more easily keep track of what your favorite politician, actor or sports star is saying. You can even search within their quotes for specific topics.”

“The latest figures – released on Thursday evening – show how rapidly it is growing in the UK, earning $803 million (about £407m) in the first three months of 2008, about 40% up on a year ago.”

“Google reported revenues of $5.19 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2008, an increase of 42% compared to the first quarter of 2007 and an increase of 7% compared to the fourth quarter of 2007.”

From Henry Blodget’s earnings call notes: “We will become world’s largest display publisher. 90% of our pages can handle display ads… Can integrate video, search, display, Feedburner, etc.”

“If I don’t read most of the updates, I find Twitter disorienting – it is like picking up a book and trying to read it backwards.”

“Trinity Mirror’s 17 paid-for regional newspapers in Scotland will be the next to relaunch online under the group-wide programme of developing newspaper-branded websites.”

The Birmingham Post on Twitter.

“If the news is that important, it will find me.”

“Sometimes I feel like my vision of the future is slowly coming true in front of my eyes. Yesterday I discovered that the Birmingham Post features writer Jo Ind has started incorporating Del.icio.us social bookmarks into her articles”

“The Birmingham Post has splashed its print and online editions with a news story sourced from the ‘army’ of bloggers it recruited as part of its online revamp in February.”

US: “Newspaper Web sites attracted more than 66.4 million unique visitors on average (40.7 percent of all Internet users) in the first quarter of 2008, a record number that represents a 12.3 percent increase over the same period a year ago”

US: “While more people than ever may be visiting newspaper websites, they are sticking around less this year than they were in 2007.”

“Available at beta.dailymail.co.uk, the beta version contains stories from the Mail’s news, sport, entertainment and Femail features section and is updated from 9am to 7pm on weekdays.”

“Facebook has opened up the Mini-Feed so users can import updates from other web services, starting with Flickr, Picassa, Yelp and Delicious.”

“What do you do when launching a new special section to ensure you get clicks?”

“We have new data that shows that the number of frontpage tech stories is halving every year on digg.”

“Without Original Reporting, How Long Can the Aggregation Party Last?”

Graphic showing 2003-8 advertising revenues for TV, national newspaper, internet, ITV and Google.