David Black

US: "The research firm now expects the market to grow by 11 percent, up from its initial projection of 8 percent in January."

"If I was starting The Village Voice today, I would not print anything… I would build a website and a mobile app (or two or three). I would hire a Publisher and a few salespeople. I would hire an editor and a few journalists. And then I'd go out and find every blog, twitter, facebook, flickr, youtube, and other social media feed out there that is related to downtown NYC and I would pull it all into an aggregation system where my editor and journalists could cull through the posts coming in, curate them, and then publish them"

"For consumers exposed to brand display ad campaigns, the research found that: One in five conduct related searches and one in three visit the brands’ sites, Users spent over 50% more time than the average visitor to these sites and consumed more pages, Users spent about 10% more money online overall, and significantly more on product categories related to the advertised brands, Higher income audiences visited the advertisers sites"

"Here are some did-you-knows to drop about Twitter: the average user has 126 followers; only 20% of its traffic comes through the Twitter website; the other 80% (logically) comes from third-party programs on smartphones or computers."

"Evan Weaver, Lead Engineer in the Services Team at Twitter, who’s primarily job is optimization and scalability, talked about Twitter’s architecture and especially the optimizations performed over the last year to improve the web site during QCon London 2009."

"Behold the power of Yahoo: A link at the top of the site’s front page helped send more than 9 million page views to The New York Times in the span of two hours last week, breaking records for web traffic at the newspaper… But as we’ve seen with other news sites, the huge spike didn’t produce much advertising revenue… the Times could only serve cheap, remnant ads to its unanticipated visitors."

"In the heady days of early 2000, the megamerger of AOL and Time Warner heralded the web-based future of publishing. It would create a digital platform for Time Inc., the biggest, most-prestigious magazine group in the world. Needless to say, that didn't pan out, and here's where it gets ironic. Just as Time Warner is unwinding that mistake, AOL is figuring out the future of magazine publishing on the web. And it's doing so without Time Warner's content assets."

"Don't try to chew more than you can swallow. Start operations in smaller geographic footprints or niches"

"here’s what must happen to finally create a viable DIY local news ecosystem…"

"This past weekend, Google News announced a new feature to enhance its search engine capabilities. The new feature allows online readers to search for articles and headlines specific to the author that they are interested in by simply clicking on the hyper-linked text of the journalist's name. "

"Mirror Group Digital traffic has grown 80% year-on-year and in May the site had another record month. The Trinity Mirror website attracted 8,693,581 unique users last month, a rise of 1% on April. It had the highest percentage of UK users, 51.62% or 4,487,510 unique users."

"By reading these blogs, you can keep an ear to the ground on the latest developments that matter the most to journalism students."

"Today we are inviting any professional news outlet that is already included as one of the 25,000+ sources in Google News to become an official partner on YouTube and more easily share your news videos on both YouTube and Google News."

"I went to Activate 09 today… Here’s a taste of what I saw:"

"On Wednesday I spent a brilliant day at Kings Place at The Guardian's Activate 09 event."

"Today's a big day for us at EveryBlock. We're making our source code available. Over the past two years, EveryBlock has been funded by a grant from the Knight Foundation. The purpose of the grant was twofold: to launch this experiment in "microlocal" news, and to release the source code. Today, as our grant period comes to an end, we're fulfilling that second purpose."

"The table below shows that only 3 of the 9 national newspapers have an RSS feed with more than 10,000 subscribers in Google Reader."

“In the digital realm you can try to keep Free at bay,” Chris Anderson writes, “but eventually the force of economic gravity will win.”

"Tuesday's blog explosion about the arguments for and against free web content were caused in part by Malcom Gladwell's (author of 'Outliers' and 'Blink') review of a new book on the subject of free content by WIRED magazine's Chris Anderson in The New Yorker."

"Two years after introducing a feature that allowed people quoted in news articles to comment on those stories in Google (NSDQ: GOOG) News, Google has dropped the option."

"The idea is that any group of people with a shared interest can use rights-cleared content from the web and print it in a basic full colour newspaper format. 4iP’s Daniel Heaf says the ideal audience could be a group of birdwatchers, the residents of an estate campaigning for improvements, or a printed product rounding up the best of the internet."

"The NYT is taking its citizen journalism project seriously. 'The Local', its online section dedicated to all things community based, is delegating reporting roles to eager citizens, asking them to cover local body meetings. The 'missions' are posted on the website, alongside instructions and relevant information."

"Northcliffe Media has launched Local People, an ad-funded local community publishing platform that mixes area-specific business directories and social networking elements. Still in its pilot stage, 20 sites are live now and 30 more will be online by the end of the month—all are based in the south-west of England and focus on communities of between 10,000 and 50,000 people. "

"Associated Northcliffe Digital has begun a pilot scheme into ultra-local online media with the launch of 23 community websites in the south-west of England."