"You can no longer equate your digital publication or presence with your website. It’s just one iteration of it. And that is a real sea-change in digital publishing."

"... we should expect a new format, new type of content and new pioneers to emerge, forever changing the new media and tech reporting space." (Not limited to tech blogging.)

"What I found out was the Beyer Figures by the top stakes horses were relatively similar from 1992 to 2005. And then it all started to slow down. With a few exceptions that don't last long (Uncle Mo), the best horses just keep getting slower on the Beyer scale."

Evan Williams: "There is some risk to the Internet becoming more closed (although it’s not really about closed). It’s that there are fewer players who own, sort of, the land. And that will have implications long term for everything."

"Still, as the Derby has been progressively corporatized, to the point that its very name has been purchased by the Yum! Brands conglomerate of fast-food chains, the actual race itself has been shoved to the margins. After all, it’s only two minutes. The real point of the Kentucky Derby seems more and more rooted in the anticipation, the parades, the steamboat races, the corporate suites, the merchandising, and the constant feeding of a multimedia beast that aids and abets the process."

"It would have been less compelling but more accurate to say that the web isn’t dying but being joined by a lot of other contact points between the user and the sea of digital information, with points emerging for different settings, situations, and times of day."

"Over the next twelve months, the media industry is likely to be split between those who master the Facebook system and those who don’t. A decade or so ago, for a print publication, going on the internet was seen as the best way to rejuvenate its audience; today, as web news audiences reach a plateau, Facebook is viewed as the most potent traffic booster."

Jeff Scott on the direction of racing over the past decade. "Another Saratoga trend is the continued decline in the number of conditioned allowance races, particularly in open (non-statebred) events. By limiting fields to horses who have won a similar number of races ("other than maiden, claiming, starter or restricted") conditioned allowances pit horses of roughly equal accomplishment against each other, and thus are often attractive betting propositions. The number of open, conditioned allowances at Saratoga (including those run as optional claimers) decreased from 54 to 34 between 2004 and 2009. Ten years earlier, in 1999, there were 72."

Annual Pew report.

"Yes, Facebook is becoming the web for millions and millions of people. As I have written before, there's already a wealth of amazing things you can do within the site without ever leaving. What's more, as I also speculated, the site giving rise to headless media companies like Zynga that don't need a web site to succeed. In short, I believe Facebook is unstoppable. They aren't just the next Google. They're the next web."

"We are all human aggregators now."

"With the evolution of social media ... businesses really need to think about what’s happening to their website traffic ..." Noticing similar trends emerging re: racing sites and networks.

"A convergence of factoids seems to point to something inevitable: the future of news delivery is on wireless devices, and those devices will be smartphones, much more than e-readers."

"Or look at it another way: We in media -- including us online with our banners and buttons -- are still selling scarcity -- and pricing it that way -- when there is no scarcity." A shift which doesn't stop many from attempting to re-create scarcity (see: API meeting, micro-flap over BH publisher's TOBA letter).

"Systems that facilitate high-quality content creation and editing are crucial for the Internet's continued growth, because without them we will all sink in a cesspool of drivel. We need to make it easier for the experts, journalists, and editors that we actually trust to publish their work under an authorship model that is authenticated and extensible, and then to monetize in a meaningful way. We need to make it easier for a user who sees one piece by an expert he likes to search through that expert's entire body of work. Then our users will be able to benefit from the best of both worlds: thoughtful and spontaneous, long form and short, of the ages and in the moment."

"Management imperatives for unlocking participation." All the jargon necessary for making the social media case to execs.

"The CelebCult virus is eating our culture alive, and newspapers voluntarily expose themselves to it."

"If news orgs like the NYT, Washington Post, and hundreds of newspaper sites start linking to news and other content around the web in a big way ... they can completely disrupt the balance of power." Read in conjunction with Nick Carr's post on the centripetal web (http://is.gd/4pFV), points way of web publishing future, just as dominated by big media as so-called old media.

Redesigned, revamped, now an online magazine.

"The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing musical chairs, and Amazon looming as the new boogeyman, publishing might have to look for its future outside the corporate world."

Why .mobi, .mobi sites

"Simple, effective and affordable small business marketing."

"Recording the stuff of life and getting it onto the Internet ... seems like a commodity business to me. It’s enhancing (and in the process controlling to some extent) all the ways people interact with each other that’s the exciting stuff we’ll be s