David Black

“Create appealing content, designed to satisfy all four news needs in the consumption model (Facts, Updates, Back Story, Future Story) and then deliver it across all the channels these consumers use.”

“Studying the Deep Structure of Young-Adult News Consumption: A Research Report from The Associated Press and the Context-Based Research Group”

“Twitter is working on adding the ability for users to separate their contacts into groups, support for sending and receiving messages by e-mail, and adding new instant-message and Internet channels for the service”

“Comment is free has been revamped, relaunched and relocated – we hope you like the results”

“We know what you think about pagination; here are some other issues you’ve raised”

“I’m pulled in two opposing directions – the first, to reply to comments and engage with readers, and the second, to instead not reply and avoid dominating the comment thread”

“By mixing identity with reputation and comment tracking these services offer the promise of something more than just better comments. It’s still not enough in order to be more than inline conversation. What I want is discovery of related content around

“It’s a tragedy that beautiful, clean data is compressed into a blob, orientated towards humans. The problem is that it is not orientated towards computers and that’s what we should be doing.”

“Time Out, the international listings guide, is urging the Office of Fair Trading to launch an investigation into the BBC’s acquisition of the travel-guide company Lonely Planet. “

“The BBC, ITV and Channel 4 are facing opposition to their plan to launch a joint online television service, codenamed Kangaroo, from media groups concerned about its potential to stifle competition.”

“Although most researchers have noted a young skew to the blog audience, a BIGresearch study found that the average age of adult bloggers is actually 37.6. “

“Here’s an idea for newspaper website homepages — just a search box and a list of blogs. Seriously. Instead of putting all the web-native content and publishing in the blog ghetto, like NYTimes.com does, why not make that the WHOLE site? “

“On the web, in the age of Google, design has no margin of error, and there are no stupid users, only inadequate designs… News organizations need to add software user interface design to their core competencies.”

On the Washington Post’s hyperlocal venture: “But LoudounExtra.com remains little more than a skeleton of the site its architects pledged to build. One reason: the team of outsiders didn’t do enough to familiarize itself with Loudoun County or engage its

“‘Hyperlocal’ on the Web really has to do with finding natural geocommunities, where interpersonal connections (or great potential for connections) coincide with geography. Natural communities are hard to identify. It’s more art than science.”

“Better search results, higher clickthrough rates, more targeted traffic, improved usability… why every web writer should embrace standfirsts.”

“I know a lot of My Telegraph users are wondering how development of the new site is going. The short answer is ‘very well’. We have a release date in mind but there is still testing to do so I don’t want to tempt fate by making the date public just yet.”

BBC releases topic landing pages: “I am delighted to announce the launch of BBC Topic Pages. Topics are automatically updated web pages, each one covering a different person, country or subject.”

“From day one, I’ve been convinced that hyperlocal must be “peer produced”. That means we together will document what is going on in our streets, our schools, our churches, our parks, and our communities.”

“lessons learned are 1) WashingtonPost.com didn’t integrate or even link LoudounExtra… 2) Curley admits his team didn’t spend enough time in the community… 3) Loudoun county is a large area with cities that don’t think of themselves as related

“I think the answer lies somewhere at the intersection of all of these models.”

Mike Orren: “almost all of our traffic comes to us and stays day in and out because of the database… it is all about the databases – whether that’s event, or political contributions, or bands.”

“The ability to dig deeper with media, themes (aka tags), and links (very Daylifey, I might add) is quite nice.”

“Add that together and we end up with a new link layer atop the news: links to original reporting; links to complementary reporting; links to sources (not to mention links to and from discussions).”