David Black

“Ad spend across all media in the UK rose 4.2% to £19.4bn last year, with the internet, cinema and the outdoor advertising sectors posting the biggest year-on-year growth, according to an Advertising Association report.”

“UK internet advertising spend rose 39.5 percent in 2007 to £3.02 billion, according to the Advertising Association”

“Linear vs. non-linear. Author-driven vs. reader-driven. Storytelling vs. ruthless pursuit of actionable content. Anecdotal examples vs. comprehensive data. Sentences vs. fragments.”

“More access to writers’ profiles and an archive of their comments – this archive will eventually be extended to comments left on any part of Guardian.co.uk; Improved signing in process for leaving comments…”

“Microsoft Live Expo, their experiment with classified listings that launched in early 2006, will be shut down on July 31, says a notice posted on the site. New listings have already been suspended.”

“A Google insider explains how the search engine decides which sites to include and feature in the popular online news portal.”

“Jim Kennedy, Associated Press and Robbie Blinkoff, Context-Based Research Group talked about how the old media model – the inverted pyramid – has been undone. Now people are consuming news across platforms and brands”

“Associated Newspapers is setting up a specialised digital sales unit for its flagship online newspaper brand, Mail Online… The new digital sales team is thought to be five strong, hived off from Associated Northcliffe Digital’s 15-strong sales team.”

“Telegraph Media Group has announced the next stage in its integration of editorial teams on the Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Telegraph.co.uk.”

“Here some tips I’ve come up with to help make it easier to track and participate in the back channel at conferences”

“That’s how innovation happens. Trial and error are our friends, not our enemies.”

“We’ve launched our first EveryBlock ’special report’ – an analysis of Chicago addresses mentioned in the recent federal investigation ‘Operation Crooked Code’.”

“Apple took us into a dramatically lit back-room to check out the new iPhone 3G. Here’s what you need to know:”

Presentation from Richard MacManus: “It covers some of the top trends we track on ReadWriteWeb; such as Websites becoming web services, Semantic Apps, Open Data, Mobile Web, Recommendation Engines.”