David Black

“Instead, in the last few months, I’ve been teaching the faculty itself in all the tools of online: blogs, wikis, RSS, video, SEO, and on and on.”

Jeff Jarvis: “Notes used for discussion with faculty of CUNY Graduate School of Journalism”

“As you can see, the top 10 sites contribute about ~29% of the headline content, and the Top 25 contribute about 45%. More importantly, the sites that have never set foot on the Top 100 contribute 33%, or about one third of the headlines”

“I quickly compared the twenty five newspapers that appeared most often in Google News with a list of the twenty five largest newspapers in terms of print circulation. A couple of quick things jumped out at me…”

“It may be a niche publisher, but the International Data Group has been working out the answers to some big mainstream questions.”

“Cheng, who has worked for the FT for eight years, will become the director of product management for advertising on Google’s European leadership team.”

Google Trends, BlogPulse Trend Search, Technorati charts, Technorati Chart, Icerocket Trend Tool, Trendpedia, Facebook Lexicon, Twist…

Stats on US newspapers twitter usage.

“go to Google Maps, click on the “Show search options” link near the search box, and select “Mapped web pages” from the drop-down menu that appears.”

“The New York Times once epitomised all that was great about American newspapers; now it symbolises its industry’s deep malaise.”

“Pew said that in 2004, 53 million Americans ‘have used the Internet to publish their thoughts, respond to others, post pictures, share files and otherwise contribute to the explosion of content available online’.”

“It’s nice to see that the printed word is still, at least for now, the most powerful medium for reporting on the death of the printed word.” [Via Virtual Economics]

“According to a study that is to be published in New Scientist magazine tomorrow, Facebook and Wikipedia are better at getting crucial information out during emergencies than either government agencies, emergency services — or the traditional media”

“‘Slows news’ would see us organising our news sites in a way to allow attention to be given to a news story over time, rather than just at the instant at which it is producing the brightest light.”

“Wikipedia is such a good news source because it only behaves as a new source when there’s actual news going on. Pages change rapidly as events change – they stay still when nothing’s going on.”

“FeedShaver takes feeds and automatically tags items with the names of people, locations and other subjects it finds within their content. You can then subscribe to only items containing those subjects”

“Mappnig the Digital Media Landscape, by Anton Grutzmancher of Hitwise, UK, on 29 April 2008″

Comment from Alfred Hermida: “We should be discussing the future of journalism, rather than the future of one delivery mechanism for the news.”

According to Hitwise, Myspace has a 54.6% share of US visits, Yahoo TV 6.9% and Google Video 3.0%.

“Template – URL optimization; Content optimization; Improving internal link structure; Google News optimization”

Press release: “62 percent said they believe that content will be supported by a variety of digital advertising methods, including branded content, search, sponsorships, performance and a mix of all of these within the next five years.”