David Black

“Enter your Twitter username. Get suggestions on interesting people to follow.”

Joanna Geary’s interactivity index spreads: “Nicolas Kayser-Bril, contributor to the Online Journalism Blog and Observatoire des Media, has created an index of the interactive tools used by European news websites.”

“del.icio.us will provide you with very important information on: how popular the exact page is; how your readers defined your page.”

Excerpt from The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google by Nicholas Carr

“On one hand, they’re heartily embrace the ability to directly engage with consumers. And on the other hand, they fear that engagement and are desperate to figure out how to control it and measure it.”

On the Guardian.co.uk Sport redesign: “The majority seem to appreciate the new functionality and feel that they’re getting a richer experience, which is the whole idea; but sadly not everyone agrees. They never do.”

“Once you have a feed or gadget — and for those of you who already do — you can start promoting it”

“according to a source close to the company, these are the current Twitter usage stats: March 2008: Total Users: 1+ million, Total Active Users: 200,000 per week, Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day”

“Exactly 15 years ago the directors at the lab where the web was first developed signed a document which said the technology could be used by anyone free of charge. “

“OK - so I have a slight nervousness about anyone who includes a quote from themselves in one of their own presentations… but this deck from David Armano is a pretty neat summary of how brands and consumers increasingly engage online.”

Jeremy Bullmore: “A long time ago, I wrote a short piece about brands in which I said: ‘People build brands as birds build nests, from scraps and straws we chance upon’.” [Via SimonWaldman.net]

“What I discovered was this: it was about a conversation, not a publication:”

“My friends aren’t on Friendfeed. Right now Friendfeed is a tech elite’s aggregator…Friendfeed at best could be an alternative for an aggregator like TechMeme. A better one too since it allows interaction with the commenting system it provides.”

“Today I’ve been working on a tool - I’ve dubbed it UGC Finder - for journalists that uses Yahoo Pipes to aggregate and filter the results of keyword searches for tagged content and conversations in social networks and media sharing sites.”

“With search engines ranking as a top traffic driver for many blogs and content sites, optimizing a site for search engine exposure is an increasingly critical component of any online marketing effort.”