Commenter rips into Gavin O’Reilly’s view about the health of newspapers: "It’s fine for aul Gavin, investing in rising markets in India and Africa, but I don’t work there and I don’t invest there."

Douglas Adams: "During [the twentieth] century we have for the first time been dominated by non-interactive forms of entertainment: cinema, radio, recorded music and television."

"The Latin [American] papers were reacting to the Web, too — but they seem to see their local efforts as ways to imitate the Web’s interactivity and its encouragement of self-expression."

"Sketch Pad is a cool New York Times column that asks architects or designers to create a vision of what an apartment, house, loft or shack now for sale might look like in order to ‘help real estate shoppers learn to see past ugly paint, too-small kitchen

Nice chart showing Google’s ad revenue relative to other media sectors. "Only regional newspapers (forecast to be worth £2.33bn in 2008 and the commerical TV sector (£3.5bn…) still lie ahead."

"A study of blogs and audience engagement during the week before the fall 2006 elections found that most newspaper staff-produced blogs contained a small number of postings, failed to create much interaction between the blogger and the audience and attrac

"Mainstream media is often chided for not being hip with the latest in design technology. The New York Times, having started in 1851, is about as mainstream as you can get. Yet, in my opinion, they are a leader in creating interactive modules to accompany

Public Editor Timothy J. McNulty: "Earlier this week, the Tribune shut down comment boards on its Web site for all political news stories" …

"With our dynamic political map you can see the state of play in UK politics at a single glance, track the Government’s performance and follow the next British General Election. Each hexagon marks a single constituency and clicks through to information

iPM seems to be discovering that e-mail might not have been the best way to collect 20,000+ postcodes for a massive listener mashup…

Reuters discovers that some readers don’t seem to understand how "Most Read Articles" lists work…

"Two Oakland Tribune Web producers have won acclaim for their interactive community project, ‘Not Just A Number.’"

"Eighteen months after the [Lancashire Evening Post] became the UK’s first fully convergent regional newsroom, editor Simon Reynolds has hailed the development as a great success." LEP web traffic was up to 300K uniques in October.

"Many want examples of how to get comments on blogs and create communities on blogs. The blogs listed here have done a good job doing that, for the most part. … "