"MySpace declined to comment on where Reid is going or who will take over the role."

"Myna, a free online audio tool from the makers of reader favorite image editor Phoenix, lets pretty much anyone jump into recording, arranging, and mixing audio tracks for quickie soundtracks, or just for the fun of it."

"In 2008, the Oriella PR Network undertook a survey of over 350 journalists across Europe to determine what impact the advent of the Internet and widely-available broadband had had on the world of journalism. One year on, we looked to see if journalists have acclimatised further to their digital environments and whether they are under more or less pressure due to the current economic turbulence."

"We would shy away from stories that seemed to require a years-long familiarity with the news and incline instead toward ephemeral stories that didn’t take much background to understand—crime news, sports updates, celebrity gossip. This approach gave us plenty to talk about with friends, but I sensed it left us deprived of a broader understanding of a range of important issues that affect us without our knowing."

- Organize, monitor, follow and share over 100 social sites.
- Watch videos, pics and Tweets and other posts in a single interface.

"The as yet un-named digital production company will aim to combine the "traditional genre of television production with the reach, power and engagement of social media"."

News International has rebuffed an approach to buy its freesheet the London Paper, which publishes its final edition on Friday.

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation last night announced that it was suing two of the firms in Silvio Berlusconi's media empire, accusing them of refusing to let satellite broadcaster Sky Italia advertise on the Italian prime minister's terrestrial network.

"Existing defamation law needs to be updated so it is fit for the modern age, and it is important we listen to views on the best way to achieve this", said Jack Straw, the secretary of state for justice. "Freedom to hold and express opinions is a right that is vital to democracy."

Basically, this is an industry in decline since the beginning of the 1990s. In terms of job loss, the newspaper industry looks remarkably like manufacturing.

"Somehow you goons have based an entire business on making people pay for —- they don’t want. Well done. Our business model is based on building the best ——- search engine on the planet so that people get what they do want. And you morons wonder why our business is booming and yours is going to hell."

"It will take years for media to figure out exactly the right digital business model. But the recession may have played its part in guiding the search."

"…the 2002-2004 recovery never reached the peak of two recoveries ago, in 1988, when real ad dollars hit $56.8 billion. Recall, this year ads are projected at just $31.6 billion—if they’re lucky—a 44 percent decline from twenty-one years ago.
That folks, is secular decline, and the vast majority of those dollars are not coming back."

I like his sentiment, but he has got his facts a little muddled.

"Their point was that by relying on community correspondents to cover grass roots parish pump news, you are cutting reporters off from the contacts they need to get to grips with their patch. My counter was that by enlisting people to write them themselves, they become colleagues rather than contacts, and surely that's an even more valuable relationship?"

"Adobe will merge Omniture’s web analytics offering into its creation tools, aiming to provide advertisers and etailers with better return on investment in digital platforms."

Habitat returned to Twitter yesterday with the message, “We’re back. Sorry it took so long. This time we want to get it right, tell us what you want to hear from us and we’ll mark suggestions in our favourites.”

"What the vast majority of these games inevitably do is present relationship mechanics that distill the commodity model down to its essence—you talk to the NPC enough, and give them enough presents, and then they have sex with/marry you."

More than at any earlier election the news web sites this year took an active part not only in distributing the latest results but also in giving people a platform to discuss the elections.

If you haven't heard yet about the BCC, it's a virtual community of existing book clubs and engaged readers, hosted by Sarah T. Williams, former books editor of the Star Tribune.

The Wall Street Journal’s Web site is expected to launch on Thursday a twice-a-day Webcast called “The News Hub” that will air at 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m.

Windows only: Chrome turned one year old just a couple weeks back, and as a belated celebration, the folks at Google have just pushed out a brand new stable release in the form of Google Chrome 3.

TiddlyWiki is a single html file which has all the characteristics of a wiki – including all of the content, the functionality (including editing, saving, tagging and searching) and the style sheet. Because it's a single file, it's very portable – you can email it, put it on a web server or share it via a USB stick.

"More importantly to those wondering about the company's plans for the future, however, was the news that Facebook was now cashflow positive – which means it is finally making money after five and a half years and an estimated $716m of investment."

"One of the guiding principles of interaction design is to support existing behavior. This means to figure out what is already happening, what activities, tasks, and interactions people are already doing, and build support for them into software.
This may not seem like a glamorous way to approach design, but from my experience it’s the fastest way to make people happy. Let them do what they already do faster/better/easier, and then you’ll have their attention in order to push the envelope after that."

The unofficial tool, Guardian Anywhere, has been developed by Future Platforms and James Hugman, who first launched it onto the Android Marketplace after entering it for the Android Developer Challenge, it was announced in a blog post.

Figure out what you’re doing and why you’re doing it. Another way to put it: Who is your audience, or who do you want to be in your audience? Who is this for? There’s an old creative-writing maximum that goes something like this: If you write only for yourself, you’re likely to have an audience of one.

"ChangeTracker watches the White House’s web site so you don’t have to. Whenever a page on whitehouse.gov [1] changes, we’ll let you know — via e-mail, Twitter, or RSS.
But ChangeTracker is not a piece of software. It’s the output of a series of powerful and mostly free Web-based tools, lovingly connected over the Internet. Here’s how to do it yourself so you can track changes on any Web site on the Internets."

"Ask a question, either on our Web site, via e-mail, or by Twitter. Within 24 hours (longer on weekends and holidays), a personal response will come from our newsroom describing how we plan to handle the question. While we don’t commit to answering questions that are too specific to a single person’s situation or ones seeking to resolve disputes, we’ll at least direct the person who asked to possible resources. "

If brands want to conquer social media engagement, they must include it as part of their overall planning process, aligning it with both the company’s and target consumers’ requirements.

P&G, which owns brands such as Gillette, Pampers and Pantene, will now pay publisher sites running its campaigns more money for engaged users – for example, those who go beyond viewing ads and sign up to newsletters, play games or watch videos.

The tool uses an @ tagging function, similar to that used on Twitter. It will let Facebook users link to friends, groups, pages or events when updating their status.

"The IPKat feels singularly depressed at the thought that this is the best we can come up with. Merpel goes one step further. Imagine, she says, that the reader of this statement is not a legitimate stakeholder but a trader in counterfeit and pirate products: would such a person not feel assured and comforted by this assortment of pious and waffly sentiments?"

"From Software’s forthcoming 3D Dot Game Heroes."

"With RFID it’s proximity that matters, and actual contact isn’t necessary. Much of Timo’s work in the Touch project addresses the fictions and speculations in the technology. Here we play with the problems of invisibility and the magic of being close."

The unintended editorial consequeces of the race for unique users?

“Then we’re going to have no paper, no printing plants, no unions,” Mr Murdoch said. “It’s going to be great.”

US newspaper website owners think readers go to their printed editions instead. Users, have a difference idea.

The Daily Mirror this week revealed plans to create an engaged, loyal visitor base for the gossip brand online rather than focus on natural search and keyword optimisation to attract mass market audiences who might not dwell on the site.

"I'd hypothesize that the number of Utopians is a fairly close map to the number of Early Adopters that one gets before hitting The Chasm."

"It's worth noting that — with the exception of newspapers — the percentage share of most traditional media in overall spending has remained roughly the same…"

All blogs on the WordPress.com platform and any WordPress.org blogs that opt-in (using this plug-in) will now make instant updates available to any RSS readers subscribed to a new feature called RSSCloud

"Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are planning to introduce San Francisco Bay Area editions, hoping to win new readers and advertisers there by offering more local news, in what could be the first glimpse at a new strategy by national newspapers to capitalize on the contraction of regional papers."

"The vast majority of executives who say, “I want to be just like Apple,” have no idea what it really takes to achieve that level of success. What they’re saying is they want to be adored by their customers, they want to launch sexy products that cause the press to fall all over themselves, and they want to experience incredible financial growth. But they generally want to do it on the cheap."

It's a restaurant review, it's a comic, it's video, it's a blog post. Brilliant and engaging.

"Total print advertising totaled $6.2 billion, a decline of 30% over the same period last year. Within the print category, national ads fell nearly 30%, while retail ads fell nearly 25%."

"…a new technology emerges and creates the possibility for a radically different organizational architecture, using an entirely different combination of skills and relationships. The only way to get from one organizational architecture to the other is to make drastic, painful changes."

"The only way newspapers can ensure the survival of their brands and the journalistic principles they hold so dearly is to separate the web organization completely from the newspaper… The print product will always win because it still makes the most money, has the most people and cost associated with it and is where everyone feels comfortable."

"The acquisition provides Dachis Group the ability to meet the increasing demand for larger and more complex engagements with global companies striving to create value through the use of social technologies in order to better engage their customers, foster more efficient workforce collaboration and enhance and optimize business partner relationships."

Apparently, there were too many headlines with "finally" in, so it was changed to "Can Dec at last match Ant?" But along the way, someone forgot to change both sides of the spread, leaving the "a" of "at" on one page and "nally" of "finally" on the other, creating the memorable headline

"Add all this together: contribution to a community to build it as an asset; ownership of the community by the community; members having a mutual stake in the community; members exercising control over the whole. That is membership."

"The same populations that tend to participate in offline political activities — citizens with high incomes and high levels of education — are also the most likely to participate on the Web."

"Marketing online takes too much measurement, patience, creativity, technical knowledge, flexibility, speed and authenticity. It requires too much thinking and not enough going out for dinner with clients."

Very lovely screencapture tool.

"The deal values the entire company at just $2.75 billion – far short of the $4.1 billion eBay agreed to pay four years ago."

"Journalists are notable for taking more from the site than they put in, and this is a cultural issue that we are addressing on an ongoing basis through communication and workshops."

"According to Hitwise UK, Twitter has overtaken MySpace for the first time on the list of most visited UK websites."

"Or perhaps this was a deliberate piece of sabotage by staff worried about their jobs?"