"But if you’re a traditional newspaper editor — who thinks in terms of X number of articles for X pages in X upcoming papers — the content cascade model probably sounds as doable as standing at the mouth of a river and trying to catch two A1 stories in a paper cup."

"Hussman said during the webinar, titled "From Free to Fee," that the Democrat-Gazette's pay wall helps it remain the primary source of information for the state."

"The river of news is the direction things are headed in. It’s clear people are getting more comfortable with that."

"The business side seems to think they’re getting something far more magic than mere microformats can provide. The bloggers, meanwhile, have clearly been too hasty in their vaporware accusations."

"But does focusing on journalists as news companies’ most valuable asset mean that news companies should be exclusively in the content production business? That’s a significant shift from the industrial printing and distribution business."

The first Guardian embedding of a BBC video. I don't quite know what to make of this personally.

"Half-hour programmes will be preceded by short commercials, while programmes of one hour or longer will be interrupted by a commercial break."

"Shares in business-to-business publishing and information group Reed Elsevier plunged by 14% today after the Anglo-Dutch company said today it would sell new shares to cut its debt pile."

A report compiled purely through Twitter.

"Great journalists with their hearts in the community are being shrugged off and those who are left are totally disillusioned by the whole disintegration process."

"slideViewer is a lightweight (1.5Kb) jQuery plugin wich allows to instantly create an image gallery by writing just few lines of HTML such as an unordered list of images."

"…we’re putting together a list of new revenue opportunities that will go up on the site in the next few days."

MarkMail is a free service for searching mailing list archives, with huge advantages over traditional search engines.

"Trinity Mirror said that it had shut 22 titles since the start of the year and cut 900 jobs – bringing headcount reduction to 1,800 in the last 18 months."

"The company behind the “spyware” distributed to BlackBerry users in the United Arab Emirates as part of an apparent government surveillance effort exposed last week is neither a shady hacking outfit nor a false front for a team of spies in a bunker.
Instead, SS8 is based in Silicon Valley…"