David Black

"Town crier", "town square" and "town expert".

"Since last month, MySpace saw the number of minutes each U.S. user spent on the site per month grow 15%, to 266.3 minutes – a new record for the social network, and a 31% increase since last January."

"The Association of Online Publishers (AOP) has introduced three new categories to its Digital Publishing Awards. Entrants can now make submissions within 'Digital Commercial Individual', 'Digital Editorial Individual' and 'Specialist Publisher' categories."

"I started having a tinker with using Google spreadsheets as for data table screenscraping. So here’s a quick summary of (part of) what I found I could do"

"By encouraging readers to Digg the stories they are reading on the newspaper site, The Telegraph has managed to increase the amount of traffic it receives from the social news site, and is now largest recipient of Digg traffic in the UK. "

Nooooooo

"Given the recent secret memos and TIME cover stories, the topic of “paid content” has once again grabbed the spotlight, offering at least a slim hope of revenue redemption to some newspaper people — largely on the print side, but with some notable digital advocates as well."

"Telegraph Media Group is hiring Google Android developer advocate Mike Jennings away to lead its mobile engineering team – one of two appointments as the news publisher beefs up its wireless commitment."

"If you’re struggling to think of what to talk about on Twitter, here are some suggestions"

US: "Here are the top 50 news sites for October 2008 from Nielsen Online."