"Kickstarter has experienced some frantic hours but nothing like what happened in the 24-hour span between Wednesday at 6:54pm and Thursday at 6:44pm. Two million-dollar projects, a major political speech involving Kickstarter, an amazing band launching a project for a comeback 20 years in the making... the list goes on. Here's a minute-by-minute breakdown of the day's events."

"The results reflected the continuing struggles of print advertising throughout the industry, as marketers and readers continue to migrate online."

"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."

"What if a little site you love doesn't have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn't take prohibitive per-user revenue to put a project in the black. It just requires a number greater than zero."

"Der Blick auf Metriken rund um den Konsum von Onlinevideos legt nahe, dass die Zeit des rasanten Wachstums vorbei ist. Die Qualität der Inhalte wird damit ein immer wichtigeres Erfolgskriterium."

"Kostenpflichtige iPad-Ausgaben sollten die Zeitungen retten, doch die Verkäufe sind rückläufig"

"...the sinking numbers in single copy digital sales suggest consumer dissatisfaction with either the apps or the distribution process or both."

"USA Today, the nation's second largest newspaper, is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28-year history as it de-emphasizes its print edition and ramps up its effort to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices. The makeover outlined Thursday will result in about 130 layoffs this fall, USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke told The Associated Press. That translates into a 9 percent reduction in USA Today's work force of 1,500 employees."

"The grants, which will vary between tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars, are designed to boost the production values of the popular -- and often lo-fi -- videos on its site. (...) The money can be used to buy new equipment, fund a new project, hire actors.."

"So you want to keep your lover or your employee close. Bound to you, even. You have a few options. You could be the best lover they've ever had, kind, charming, thoughtful, competent, witty, and a tiger in bed. You could be the best workplace they've ever had, with challenging work, rewards for talent, initiative, and professional development, an excellent work/life balance, and good pay. But both of those options demand a lot from you. Besides, your lover (or employee) will stay only as long as she wants to under those systems, and you want to keep her even when she doesn't want to stay. How do you pin her to your side, irrevocably, permanently, and perfectly legally? You create a sick system."

""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. "

"My fight is not with the iPad, but with the old-school media publishers."

"All the pressures the Internet put on newspapers – crushing the business model, unlimited competition, no need for tree massacres – are just amplified by the iPad. Now would be the time to embrace the Internet. But the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and other are running in the opposite direction with apps that have no hyperlinks and/or require a fee to get access. All those people sitting on trains with their iPads are going to do the same thing that all those people sitting in their offices on their laptops did – get their news from free sources that hyperlink to other free sources."

"I think that the press has been all over the iPad because Apple puts on a good show, and because everyone in journalism-land is looking for a daddy figure who'll promise them that their audience will go back to paying for their stuff. The reason people have stopped paying for a lot of "content" isn't just that they can get it for free, though: it's that they can get lots of competing stuff for free, too. The open platform has allowed for an explosion of new material, some of it rough-hewn, some of it slick as the pros, most of it targetted more narrowly than the old media ever managed. Rupert Murdoch can rattle his saber all he likes about taking his content out of Google, but I say do it, Rupert. We'll miss your fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the Web so little that we'll hardly notice it, and we'll have no trouble finding material to fill the void."

"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."

"Andreessen asked me if TechCrunch is working on an iPad app or planning on putting up a paywall. I gave him a blank stare. He laughed and noted that none of the newer Web publications (..) are either. “”All the new companies are not spending a nanosecond on the iPad or thinking of ways to charge for content. The older companies, that is all they are thinking about."

"I see too many companies that are building iPhone App companies. iPhone is not a business model unless you’re Apple. It’s a channel. It’s a way to reach your customers. And single channel businesses are vulnerable to the vagrancies of the market place."

"Microsoft's Windows 7 is blowing the doors off, but the company's online division continues to piss away a fortune. How much, exactly? Nearly $2 billion a year."

"Everyone seems to have an opinion on whether the iPad will transform the news business or do nothing of the sort. Here’s a roundup of some of the thinking."

"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."

"Das iPhone hat sie, Amazons Kindle bekommt sie jetzt, bald laufen sie wohl auf jeder Spielkonsole: Der App-Wahn ist eine paradoxe, schädliche Entwicklung. Er würgt Innovationen ab - und verschafft den Konzernen noch mehr Macht."

"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."