"Trust has gone – look at the government and banks. Where we are now, brands have to admit their mistakes."

The owner of Denmark's "double-free" newspaper Nyhedsavisen admits defeat.

"the revenue streams from the traditional newspaper-advertising model dried out for Nyhedsavisen due to the fierce competition on the media market in which the excess of supply ensured radicularly low prices."

showing how easy it is to "manufacture" a pop star.

"I suspect within any readership there is a small slice — maybe three percent — that is willing to pay. News organizations are going to have to find a way of getting money from that slice without driving away everybody else,"

Well, if Nielson is right and you only need 3% of readers to be prepared to pay form content, this poll result is quite heartwarming.

In short, it's not newspapers alone, or television, or ad agencies that are having problems. It's everything on and off the net.

One thing is certain though: the public's search for "something for nothing" will go on forever.

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Jayaram confirmed that Twitter Search, which currently searches only the text of Twitter posts, will soon begin to crawl the links included in tweets and begin to index the content of those pages

The way he tells it, the central betrayal of Simon's life is the gutting of the Sun by profit-obsessed owners and Pulitzer-obsessed editors.

My time is pretty valuable to me, and the problem I face with much of "Free" content is that it takes a long time to find good content that is reliably produced (for instance, how often is your blog updated?). I want in-depth coverage and perspectives in areas that most consumers could care less about. For me, paying for an aggregator of executive-level business content is cheaper than trying to sort through mass-media content to find it on other sites (Harvard Business Review is way more expensive).

Amazon has dictated what publications can charge and what they can't. Why? The industry needs all the incremental revenue it can get right now, and isn't in a position to really negotiate, but it can't let one company control the digital platform like Apple does with the music industry.

… With a variety of Internet research tools readily at hand, it has never been easier for reporters to draw an independent assessment on any given day of who is right, who is wrong, and in what way.

Every single piece of web 2.0 is about two people sharing some sort of content

"I totally understand the music business desire to do something against illegal services. The thing you can do is not go after individual users but create a better service."

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Webby award winner with a simple and effective way of showing off good photography.

Looking at newspapers as a series of iPhone apps that already exist for free.

But Schapiro, who was speaking a day after Conde Nast announced the closure of its glossy business magazine Portfolio only about two years after it launched, held out some hope for the business reporting trade. She said that some journalists should consider applying for jobs at the SEC.

Ireland's major newspaper publisher, Independent News & Media, warned Thursday it is likely to default on a euro200 million ($265 million) debt due for repayment next month and is seeking a possible bailout from its top two shareholders.

What's holding back news organisations from creating these types of features on their own? Mathew said that "antiquated and inflexible content-management systems" are partly to blame, but he also said that newsroom culture also is part of the problem.

The problem for anyone considering online-only – readers spend just 3.5 minutes on-site and view just 2.6 pages, in Taloussanomat.fi's experience; that's about a quarter the time readers spent with the printed equivalent. And Taloussanomat.fi's website is still loss-making.

The New York Times extended the TimesPeople social networking features across the site last night, adding a layer of Digg-esque recommendation and rating to its news stories. It's a free service designed to encourage users to spend more time on the site and drive up the number of ad page views.

This took me to Umapper.com which has to be the best map service I've come across. It's excellent!

"But as the Blogosphere grows in size and influence, the lines between what is a blog and what is a mainstream media site become less clear. Larger blogs are taking on more characteristics of mainstream sites and mainstream sites are incorporating styles and formats from the Blogosphere. In fact, 95% of the top 100 US newspapers have reporter blogs"

"In a post on his blog, Stay N Alive (via Mashable), developer Jesse Stay says that while Project Beacon never really went away, Facebook may be readying it for a bigger comeback. Beacon, which shared details about member purchases as part of the news feed, stopped accepting new marketers last fall after an outcry from users and privacy advocates."

10 Social Media Steps is a guide to how people with very little experience get get engaged with social web tools.

"Far from turning teenagers into anti-social loners, video games help them engage with friends and community, says a report."

In a nutshell, just add rel="tag" as an attribute in your tag hyperlinks. This may prove useful some time in the near future.