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"Twitter could actively ping users about local events that are going on in their neighborhood, in real-time, based on the location they’ve indicated. As an example, Williams says users could be alerted to the fact a fire is burning a few streets away from where Twitter knows (or thinks) they are."
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"It turns out the Times’ ambitions in this field are bigger — and, in another sense, smaller — than they might appear from the two sites that debuted on Monday with a full-time reporter at the helm of each."
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"I continually see the same mistakes being made by organisations. It is time that they faced the harsh realities of running an online community."
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"Choosing a content management system can be tricky. Without a clearly defined set of requirements, you will be seduced by fancy functionality that you will never use. What then should you look for in a CMS?"
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"I’ve been spending time looking at blog performance metrics, and wanted to share some ideas on how bloggers, editors and journalists can use web analytics to not just measure performance, but set editorial & content strategy."
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"The New York Times released the 2.0 version of its popular free iPhone app today and it's one you'll want to be sure to grab. The app now offers extensive support for offline reading, making it one of the easiest ways to catch up with the news on a plane."
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"Darren Thwaites, editor of the Teeside Evening Gazette, spoke to Sheffield University journalism students today, outlining what could be the future for digital regional journalism."
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"And the envelope, please: How many people does it take to run an online-only metro news site?"
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"The trade body has collaborated with the key players in online behavioural advertising to launch Good Practice Principles, the UK’s first self-regulatory guidelines."
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"The display ad business is 'not uniform in any particular way,' Schmidt said at Morgan Stanley's tech conference. 'The systems are complicated. The way the display ads are managed is done in many cases by hand or by poor quality spreadsheets.' So Google hopes to make the business a little more Googly."
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"Expandable ads are rich media ads that can expand beyond the original size of the ad unit, following a user-initiated action."
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"As I think through the major themes of the book I hope to write over the next year, the word "horizontal" keeps coming up, over and over and over. "