"When I started in photography, Kodak was the trusted source. (Sound familiar, newspaper people?) We might flirt with funky European Agfa and exotic Asian Fuji, but when it was time to get serious, it was Kodak Tri-X and Kodak paper and Kodak Dektol. In a digital world, Kodak's brand means little. And if you think your newspaper's brand is a huge asset, you probably need to get out and talk to some young people now and then."

""It's generating so many impressions, and we have such advertising demand for this that it would be a very poor business decision right now to put up a pay wall," said David Hunke, president and publisher of USA Today. "

"Slate ad critic Seth Stevenson tries out a Google service that allows you to run your own commercial on national TV for as little as $100."

"To let casual visitors in the door while challenging regular users to pay, you have to rely on cookies, and the cookie monster won't let you do that. Cookies just aren't very reliable for that purpose."

"When copies are super abundant, they become worthless. When copies are super abundant, stuff which can't be copied becomes scarce and valuable. When copies are free, you need to sell things which can not be copied."

"Kein Designer erforderlich! Sie können Display-Anzeigen ganz einfach und schnell erstellen. Verwenden Sie Ihren eigenen Text, Ihre Bilder und Ihr Logo und wählen Sie dann ein Anzeigenformat aus über 40 professionell entworfenen Vorlagen aus."

"Overall, Fast Flip just seems like a disappointing product. The cooperation with content producers is interesting, though we wonder if a single AdSense unit on the site will really make newspapers any money. Google Reader or personalized applications like my6sense on the iPhone or feedly on the desktop just seem far more interesting and usable than browsing through a series of screenshots."

"From the viewpoint of the consumer, you're not nearly as unique and special as you think."

"Reading anything on the Internet has become a full-on nightmare. As media outlets attempt to eek out as much advertising revenue as possible, we’re left trying to put blinders on to mask away all the insanity that surrounds the content we’re trying to read. It’s almost like listening to talk radio, except the commercials play during the program in the background. It’s a pretty awful experience. Our friend to date has been the trusty “Print View” button. Click it and all the junk goes away. I click it all the time and rarely print. It’s really become the “Peace & Quiet” button for many."

"Like most newspapers, the Star Tribune has experienced a sharp decline in print advertising. Its earnings before interest, taxes and debt payments were about $26 million in 2008, down from about $59 million in 2007 and $115 million in 2004."

"...the industry as a whole still has a lot of work to do if it's prepping for a post-print universe, according to new analysis and estimates by Advertising Age."

"The fight that counts in 2009 is the one for online eyeballs seeking news and informed comment, not for the passive audience handed a freesheet with the minimum of journalistic merit or public benefit."

"The Kansas City Kansan, the only news source exclusively devoted to covering Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kan., will discontinue publishing its printed newspaper. The newspaper’s final issue will be Jan. 10, the Kansan announced in an article this morning on its Web site. After that, it will post its news online at www.kansascitykansan.com. When it does, it will join a small but growing number of daily newspapers that have largely abandoned their print product for an electronic one, including The Christian Science Monitor and The Capital Times in Madison, Wis."

"In diesem Jahr haben die werbetreibenden Unternehmen (...) schon früh begonnen, immer mehr Online-Werbegeld in Richtung Performance-Marketing (also meist Google) umzuschichten. Kein Verlagsvermarkter hat seine Ziele in diesem Jahr erfüllt. Das war schon vor der Krise deutlich zu erkennen und wird jetzt natürlich noch einmal verschärft. Die Folge ist eine gewisse Ratlosigkeit in der Verlagswelt, wie sie im Netz mit Premuim-Werbeumfeldern Geld verdienen können."

"Die Printverlage glauben, sie handeln schlau, wenn sie Journalismus online vernachlässigen. Doch die Klickibunti-Strategie führt geradewegs in die Zerstörung ehemals stolzer Marken."

"The real problem with RSS (...) is that traditional media companies and advertisers are the most ignorant of the whole lot. Moreover, there’s no incentive for them to become educated, because they cannot see how to make money by using a consumer pull technology like RSS."

"....every feed across the site includes the full content for each article. We've also embedded related links pointing people to more information on the web site. This way people can get the guardian.co.uk experience in whatever context is most useful to them."

"Let’s kill a myth. The dream of a compact newsroom, able to output a high-intensity general news website doesn’t fly. Numbers simply don’t add up."

..smart move.. publishers will quit their whining as soon as they realize that google will make more money for them out of their content as they could do it alone.. it's already happening with copyright protected videos being published on youtube.. "piracy" sounds rather ridicolous from this perspective: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/youtube_pirate_business.php

"Bullets, stationary objects and high-speed photography combine to make a nice anti-gun PSA."

"...the company claimed that 90% of the owners of copyrighted content are now advertising against pirated video they own when they find it using YouTube's new content ID technology. The news upends many long held beliefs about the site"

"We've been curious to see what copyright holders would choose. Would the vast majority of partners block user-uploaded videos? Or would they embrace Video ID as an opportunity to generate revenue and exposure for their content online? As it turns out, our partners are choosing the latter, monetizing 90% of all claims created through Video ID. This has led directly to a similarly significant increase in monetizable partner inventory, as our Video ID partners are seeing claimed content more than double their number of views, against which we can run ads."

"Verwalten Sie den Verkauf Ihrer Onlineanzeigen und Ihr Website-Inventar. (...) Der Google Anzeigenmanager ist eine gehostete Anzeigenverwaltungslösung, die Sie bei Verkauf, Planung, Auslieferung und Messung des gesamten direkt verkauften und netzwerkbasierten Inventars unterstützt."

"A year ago, the conventional wisdom was, ‘Yep, there are problems out there, but there’s still significant value.’ Now, it’s ‘Run away.’"

print folks.. better start running, eh

"I, and pretty much everyone in that deadly quiet meeting got the sense that we are now done talking about change. If we are going to protect our jobs, then we need to find a way to reinvent the newsroom on a completely different multi-platform model."

“People need to stop looking at TBO.com [the newspaper's affiliated web site] as an add on to The Tampa Tribune. The truth is that The Tampa Tribune is an add on to TBO.”

"In Zeiten des Web 2.0 suchen viele Zeitungsverlage ihr Heil in Boulevardisierung, Spielen und Bloggertum. Andere besinnen sich auf ihre Stärken."

"...one of my favorite topics: how much I despise real-estate agents and how eagerly I await the doom of their business model."

"One could make a blog with nothing but daily reports of bad news about newspapers. One could make another blog with suggestions for drastic measures that should be taken..."

jetzt auch auf deutsch....

"Within minutes of riding on the first trains in Japan, I notice a significant change in advertising, from train to television. The trend? No more printed URL's. The replacement? Search boxes! With recommended search terms!"

"Only nineteen per cent of Americans between the ages of eighteen and thirty-four claim even to look at a daily newspaper. The average age of the American newspaper reader is fifty-five and rising."

"100 produkte im vergleich zu ihren werbefotos. alle produkte wurden eingekauft, die verpackungen fotografiert, die produktfotos vergrößert, die produkte nach verpackungsvorgabe zubereitet und zum vergleich fotografiert."

"Während hierzulande noch kleinkarierte Debatten über die vermeintliche Minderwertigkeit des Internets geführt werden, ist man in Frankreich augenscheinlich schon deutlich weiter: Das gesamte Mediensystem wird zur Disposition gestellt."