"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."

"Stories from The Onion as interpreted by Facebook"

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

...no feed?

"Think a tweet is just 140 characters of text? Think again. To developers building tools on top of the Twitter platform, they know tweets contain far more information than just whatever brief, passing thought you felt the urge to share your friends via the microblogging network. A tweet is filled with metadata - information about when it was sent, by who, using what Twitter application and so on."

"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."

"The iPhone vision of the mobile Internet’s future omits controversy, sex, and freedom, but includes strict limits on who can know what and who can say what. It’s a sterile Disney-fied walled garden surrounded by sharp-toothed lawyers. The people who create the apps serve at the landlord’s pleasure and fear his anger. I hate it. I hate it even though the iPhone hardware and software are great, because freedom’s not just another word for anything, nor is it an optional ingredient. The big thing about the Web isn’t the technology, it’s that it’s the first-ever platform without a vendor (credit for first pointing this out goes to Dave Winer). From that follows almost everything that matters, and it matters a lot now, to a huge number of people. It’s the only kind of platform I want to help build."

"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."

"...the real reason media companies love the iPad is the same reason I don't: It's an old school, locked in distribution channel that doesn't want to play by the new rules of search+social. Sure, you can watch a movie on it. Sure, you can read a book on it. And sure, you can read a publication on it. But if you want to use the web natively, with all the promise that the web brings to media? Not so much."

"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."

"BBC journalists must keep up with technological change - or leave, the director of BBC Global News Peter Horrocks says"

"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."

Ask me anything.

"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."

“If it exists, there is porn of it.”

"The Data Liberation Front is an engineering team at Google whose singular goal is to make it easier for users to move their data in and out of Google products. We do this because we believe that you should be able to export any data that you create in (or import into) a product. We help and consult other engineering teams within Google on how to "liberate" their products."

"This Google resource brings together the latest industry facts and insights. These have been collected from a number of third party sources covering a range of topics from macroscopic economic and media trends to how consumer behaviour and technology are changing over time."

"There is no business development, no human resources, no sales. As a result, there are no meetings. The staff communicates by email and IM. This is a nice environment for employees of a certain temperament. "Not that we're a Shangri-La or anything," Buckmaster says, "but no technical people have ever left the company of their own accord."

"A long time ago I discovered this fundamental rule of the net -- People come back to places that send them away. Places like Google, Yahoo, Craigslist, Youtube, even Twitter. These are the mainstays. You go there to get somewhere else. Sites that try to suck you in and hold you there, no matter how cleverly, go away. While it may seem like a good approach at first, long-term it's a losing strategy."

"Die Parteien rufen zum Kampf gegen die Onlinesucht auf. Ihr billiges Motiv: Sie wollen das linke Bildungsbürgertum mit seiner Abscheu vor Technologien und Popkulturen mobilisieren."

"Page Speed is an open-source Firefox/Firebug Add-on. Webmasters and web developers can use Page Speed to evaluate the performance of their web pages and to get suggestions on how to improve them."

"...there are clear benefits for both the service (low cost of entry, potentially easy profit) and the linker (the quick rush of popularity). But URL shorteners are bad for the rest of us. The worst problem is that shortening services add another layer of indirection to an already creaky system. "

"When a site has evolved as ours has, it just isn't wise or cost effective to continue working on some of the pages we published in the past. At the same time, routinely deleting inactive content doesn't feel entirely right either, does it? Whilst we work through the sensible way forward, the best approach at present is to clearly label pages which are no longer being updated but which have been left online either for reference or because they may still be of some interest."

"What are these renegade cybergeeks doing at the New York Times? Maybe saving it."

"Lately I've noticed a pattern of people building Single Serving Sites, web sites comprised of a single page with a dedicated domain name and do only one thing."

"Jason Scott on the closure of AOL's online communities....Waxy.org comments: "like physical evictions, there need to be laws protecting community data in the event of closure"

"The internet, which emerged this year as a leading source for campaign news, has now surpassed all other media except television as a main source for national and international news. Currently, 40% say they get most of their news about national and international issues from the internet, up from just 24% in September 2007. For the first time in a Pew survey, more people say they rely mostly on the internet for news than cite newspapers (35%)."

"...was hat die Internetstrategie von Burda oder Holtzbrinck mit Journalismus zu tun? Da geht es doch eher darum, möglichst viele Beteiligungen zusammenzukaufen, die möglichst wenig mit Journalismus zu tun haben. Dann klar ist eines: Es gibt bis jetzt kein Geschäftsmodell für klassischen Journalismus im Web. Wird es jemals eines geben? (...) Dass die meisten deutschen Verlage im Web versagt haben, ist nicht die Schuld der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen."

"I try to catalogue the yes-but contrariness I hear about the internet’s opportunities–and my responses..."