"Near the end of an otherwise unremarkable interview with Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter and Rolling Stone editor Jann Wenner … PBS’ Charlie Rose slipped in this little question…"

"While direct income from [Iain Dale's] blog has been modest – ads provided by Google Ads and Message Space earn Dale about £7,000 a year – its value in promoting his “brand” has been huge."

"I like the idea that print is the place for slightly less time-sensitive articles … Making print less time-senstive, I think, increases its worth and makes people more likely to hold onto it for longer and read it more."

Scott Karp: "If publishers want to maximize value on the web, they have to put the web first every time — that means you can’t just take what you create for print and dump it on the web, regardless of the cost efficiencies, because you’re destroying

Steve Balmer: "there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form."

Jim Muttram: "I doubt that pay-for-performance schemes will be seen in mainstream publishers for a very long time, if ever. But characterising the debate about optimisation as an inevitable dumbing down does not further the argument much."

"The journey beyond print is uncertain and perilous, but the experience of I.D.G., the world’s largest publisher of technology newspapers and magazines, suggests that it can be done."

"[U]ntil … advertisers demand that their ads be printed on recycled paper (and provide the revenue that offsets the increased cost), the green issues will keep coming out on the same paper stock as every other issue."

"Centaur has decided to use its magazine teams to drive content on its MAD website … And what of the editorial issue? What most publishers fail to grasp is that online writing is not the same as off line writing."

Extensive notes on the design of Monocle magazine and its website from Dan Hill.

Der Spiegel refuses to rule out print-online integration…

"[S]ome publishers—even those with blogs—are hesitant to link away from their site—in some ways, stuck in the print-centric mindset of not wanting to “give away” their traffic. It’s a mindset that confuses bloggers."

When did print start trying to mimick online, rather than the other way around? Martin Belam pints out "[T]he ‘Woman’s Own’ ‘interactive’ section, called ‘Chat Room’…trie[s] to present essentially online interactions in print."

"On Thursday, [Sports Illustrated] will introduce the Vault, a free site within SI.com that contains all the words Sports Illustrated has ever published and many of the images, along with video and other material, in a searchable database."