David Black

“Morgan Stanley’s Internet Trends report from last month takes a big turn from previous reports – the focus is nearly 100% on social applications and how they are taking over the Internet”

“The news industry is a resilient bunch. Newspapers, in particular, represent some of the United States’ oldest and most respected companies.”

“With the arrival of the Internet, the ability of nonjournalists to ‘publish’ their words and link them with those of other like-minded scribes has altered forever the balance of power between those who control the means to publish and those who…”

January 2008: “Internet spending estimates are from AdRelevance. All others from Nielsen Monitor-Plus.”

“The inverted pyramid might still have a place in journalism, but it doesn’t make sense as the dominant writing style on the Web.”

“During my talk, I reviewed the results of our newspaper and magazine studies that examined the Web 2.0 features these media properties include on their websites.”

Bivings presentation on the internet and US newspaper and magazine sites.

US: “Below is the average time spent per person for the month of March ranked by March 2008 uniques.” Data from Nielsen Online.

“Uncontrollable urge to share most mundane experiences – or, more commonly, lack of experiences – with Twitter followers. Generally involves consumption of food.”