David Black

"mashable is more influential than CNN"

"RSS is way more than the readers it spawned. It is a fundamental part of the Internet architecture and is used for all sorts of things. It's the subscribe system of the internet and a 'default function' in the Internet operating system. "

"Interestingly, rather than Twitter absorbing RSS, it may go the other way. Perhaps RSS will absorb Twitter. That's the idea behind rssCloud."

Jeff Jarvis: "Right now, news organizations should be trying to reach more people and engage with them more deeply. They should seek hyperdistribution."

US: "Of those 7.9 billion hours spent online, time spent at newspaper Web sites was 45,022,485 hours."

"after the Web site put up a pay wall for nearly all its content, readers would brave driving rainstorms to go out and buy the newspaper. Since then, newsstand sales of the Newport Daily News have jumped by 200 copies a day. For a paper with a daily circulation of 13,000, that's a significant gain, especially since, in an era in which most papers are seeing steep declines in readership, even holding steady is a success; an increase is a triumph."

"It’s great that among all of the RSS feeds, Google News arrays and e-mail alerts, we all can reside at the white hot nexus of news, but every once in a while when you are looking for diversions or informational enhancement, it would be nice to jack into something a little less of-the-moment and a little more nutritious."

"Here's a basic point to register. The average New York Times print reader spends roughly as long with his paper a day as the average NYT net user spends online in a month. And the revenue side is similarly unbalanced."

"Google has released a 15-minute video with background information for publishers and journalists on its Google Webmaster Central Channel. In the well-animated introduction, Maile Ohye, its developer programs tech lead, explains how its news search works. She illustrates the ranking system, answers some FAQs and offers tips on the best practice in publishing articles."

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"There are two relatively new efforts to curate the best links from twitter. They’re both very simple tools, and their simplicity is powerful."