"…the silent readers are very active members of the community. They just make decisions not to make themselves visible in the permanent online space"

Internet getting you down? Tired of reading tales of doom and disaster? Ever wanted to cheer yourself up by looking at floofy kittins? Of course you have. And now you can! With this little bookmarkelet that replaces all images on the page with pictures of kittens.

Circulation figures for UK national daily newspapers for July 2009

"…in the hands of a more capable investigator, it’s possible that the information underneath all of the Tweets, Facebook updates, Flickr comments, etc. that I am broadcasting everyday could reveal a lot more that I would want to share.

"Brands must have a kick start plan to be successful with their community.

"Taking responsibility" falls on their ears as "taking the blame". In their experience, this is adding insult to injury – taking the heat after taking the loss. It's too much to take according to them.

"We concluded that the routine publication of these pages and the nature of the articles strongly suggested a commercial arrangement existed between the newspaper and the advertiser and that the advertiser exerted a sufficient degree of control over the content of the articles to warrant the term 'advertisement feature' or the like being placed above the articles".

Worth reading. Fascinating to see how the UK compares when it comes to pricing of mobile broadband.

"…the students went through a three-day intensive workshop, called Ready…Set…Blog! Fellow CUNY Graduate School of Journalism student and Local intern Lois DeSocio and I developed the curriculum and led the workshops."

"The common form of news storytelling that evolved in print journalism over the last century was shaped by not only the technology and scarcity of print, but also by consumption patterns that differed from what we're seeing today."

"In the 36 hours after securing the Michael Jackson footage, Us Weekly was able to cut the video down to a minute and 35 seconds, secure advertisers (the video was embeddable by any user, carrying with it a pre-roll ad), warn Ooyala — which used Akamai as its CDN — about the incoming load, and sync up with that week’s newsstand release. In the meantime, Ooyala readied its adaptive bitrate streaming to ensure that video views were uninterrupted by demand or bandwidth issues."

"Can we get a feeling for the audience the event is being amplified to? Are there members of that audience who seem to be a member of the community but aren’t really known to the community? Can we find the lurkers and pull them in with a personal invite (and is this even ethical?)"

Sony's e-book reader and Amazon's Kindle have attracted a great deal of attention during 2009. However, the devices still suffer from proprietary file formats and digital rights management technologies, which along with price, are limiting their adoption and will drive them into the Trough of Disillusionment.

"So, news at 3%, and lets assume "the rest excluding spam and babble" – about 57% – has about 1/6th relevance (a figure derived by a quick count on Tweetdeck) gives about a 10% signal, the rest is pretty much noise. A lot if it is diverting noise of course, and herein lies the problem – poor filtering!"