David Black

“I happened to tweet this morning about two crowdsourcing moments – student tries to crowdsource his tuition; …Arrington crowdsources his rats/ship/flee list for Yahoo – when Mark Comerford tweeted back with a link to the crowdsourced job interview”

“I have a job interview on Monday… when I saw the presentation I had to make, I thought it was worth sharing. I have already chatted about it to a few friends, so why not go the whole hog and put it up online?!”

“Google has just introduced Google Trends For Websites, a new tool that lets users take a peek at the traffic data from sites around the web.”

“Emily Bell, Danny Cohen, Andre McGarrigle, Danny Sullivan. Chaired by Ian Katz… On this Future of Journalism panel, we hear how to chase online traffic without compromising editorial standards.”

“Suranga Chandratillake, Tom Happold, Anthony Lilley, Maggie O’Kane. Chaired by Jonathan Freedland… How can internet video be different from traditional TV?”

“Now that everyone who really needs to know has been informed of my departure, I can finally announce here that next Friday (27 June) I’m leaving the BBC to join Headshift where I’ll be leading an already established and expanding Social Media practice.”

“Mirror Group Digital’s third month of ABCe results showed a 12.9% increase from April to 4,829,899 unique users last month.”

“Nearly 73% of Mail Online’s unique users were outside the UK last month, although this was ‘not something we have gone after’, added Clarke. But he said that Daily Mail & General Trust is exploring how to generate revenue from this overseas traffic.”

“Telegraph Media Group has today unveiled a series of widgets to allow users to receive Telegraph news and sport content on mobiles, computer desktops, social networking sites and other web pages.”

“We just got confirmation from Joshua Schachter, the founder of delicious, that he has decided to resign from Yahoo!”

“I like the idea that print is the place for slightly less time-sensitive articles – in-depth analysis, comment, features, etc. Making print less time-senstive, I think, increases its worth and makes people more likely to hold onto it for longer and read

“The Huffington Post is planning to expand into local news across the US, founder Arianna Huffington said last night, beginning with a site edited for the community of Chicago.”

“The world is becoming more commercial, so Telegraph editorial recruits have to reflect this shift, Alison Reay, director of new media, told an Association of Online Publishers (AOP) forum yesterday.”

“On average, video viewership peaks early in a video’s life-cycle… Significantly, 50% of all views occur in the first two weeks, peaking at day three, which constitutes 11% of all views.”

“While that may not sound groundbreaking in the age of YouTube, applying personal video to classifieds is not yet something that has taken off. “

“The Digital Journalist gives guidelines for producing newspaper videos, something that five years ago they predicted as the key to helping newspapers ‘to migrate their brand on the web’.”

“Now about that API… The goal, according to Aron Pilhofer, editor of interactive news, is to ‘make the NYT programmable. Everything we produce should be organized data’.”

“The New York Times has revealed that it intends to launch an API for the newspaper’s web content later in the year.”

“The new platform is faster and sturdier than the old one and will allow us to add some new features over the coming weeks. It will also give our journalists more control over their blogs.”

“Neil Lee has updated his optimized Firefox builds for Firefox 3. The architecture-specific versions of Firefox 2 had been dubbed BonEcho, but Firefox 3 brings a new moniker: Minefield.”