"Facebook's location service 'Places' is speeding towards an imminent launch ... Advertising exec Dave Morgan has argued ... that the rise of location based services, because they are so easy to use and compelling, will suck the advertising life-blood out of local newspapers, radio and journalism."

"New York magazine is fast becoming a digital enterprise with a magazine attached. Visitors to the magazine’s various Web sites have doubled since 2007, digital sales are up 70 percent over last year and now constitute 35 percent of the revenue at the company. Its MenuPages app has been downloaded to iPhones over 160,000 times and Vulture, the magazine’s pop culture site, is bulking up in hopes of becoming a national presence. The company said that already 75 percent of its visitors to its various sites come from beyond the New York market."

"GameChanger is trying to monetize not just sports-related content, but sports scoring in general. Via, in particular, a mobile app that coaches and other scorekeepers can use to tabulate the scores of their games. And which they can also use — here’s where we get interested — to automatically distribute those scores to local media. ... the platform facilitates targeted — highly targeted — crowdsourcing: via the GameChanger app, baseball and softball scorekeepers use their iPhones or iPads to file the detailed scores of their games, in real time. Those data then get beamed to GameChanger’s central servers, which tally up box scores."

"Let me stand up for the journalists here: Most people read The Economist because it’s a great magazine and the single best place to keep up on what’s going on in the world. They don’t read it because it’s been cleverly marketed to them."

"a new study by research firm Hitwise, which showed the social network was responsible for 16.73 per cent of the page views from our shores."

However, despite this seemingly untouchable dominance, it was still only the second most visited site in the UK, with Google taking the crown at 9.59 per cent of all visits.

"BSkyB is fighting a legal battle with the internet telecommunications pioneer Skype, claiming that it owns the 'Sky' in 'Skype'."

"A standout among its less successful peers in the shrinking world of weekly news magazines, the true genius of The Economist, in fact, may have as much to do with its marketing as with its authoritative and often sardonic tone on exotic subjects"

"The next time you visit your favorite coffee shop, consider how it would look if it were transformed into a "news café" -- a place where journalists would work on stories and interact with patrons to find ideas, cultivate sources and show them how stories are reported."

"Applied Works is producing an ongoing series of interactive graphics to support The Times’ recently-launched iPad app."

"This is pretty cool, Applied Works is producing a number of interactive infographics for The Times’ recently-launched iPad app. It is another pointer to how some of the really great stuff we are going to see digitally away from the web."

"The number of [online display] ads has reduced dramatically from when Times Online was freely available. ... In their place, one thing that is clicking increasingly is a new spin on an old kind of sponsorship - paid editorial... The Times and Sunday Times sites are running a series of sponsored features and site-lets for Accenture, Courvoisier, Alfa Romeo, Chevrolet and ICIS, each apparently the online extension of a recent paid supplement."

Patrick Smith: "As the debate continues as to how the media industry might sustain news and original journalism, I increasingly wonder if legacy print-based publishers should somehow use all the revenue tools and models available as online publishers and simply make enough money to cross-subsidise their journalism. So it’s less about 'making money from news', as 'making money from whatever works'. This is why Will Lewis and the Telegraph’s ill-fated Euston Project was such an exciting idea."

About the "5 different ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages."

Ken Doctor: "In this hybrid era of straddling print and digital publishing, the role of the gatekeeper has markedly morphed. It’s shifted from 'us' to 'them,' but 'them' includes a lowercase version of 'us,' too. Gatekeeping is now a collective pursuit; we’ve become our own and each other’s editors. ... The attitude—as well as the mechanics—for attracting readers has to change. It’s no longer 'take my judgment on the day’s news or good luck finding another local daily.' And even though readers are no longer captive to what an editor decides, people still want some help when it comes to deciding how and where to look for the news they value."