“Our focus is not page views,” [Rafat] Ali said. “Our focus has been laserlike on the C-level executives in the industry. That’s why we get triple-digit CPMs. That’s nearly unheard of in the industry.”

Scott Karp: "Publishing 2.0, like most commercialized blogs, is essentially a trade publication … and just as my content has little relevance to Digg’s niche audience, so too does Digg’s audience have little value to Publishing 2.0."

Unlike a traditional, centralised online publication, Glam is a distributed network of its own and independent sites.

Techcrunch ‘brings in $240,000 per month in advertising — but Nick Denton says blog publishing companies are "still minuscule by the standards of traditional media. And none have weathered a downturn."

David Weinberger: "the new front page is distributed across our day and our network. Much of it comes through our inbox. It consists of people we know and people we don’t know recommending items for our interest."

Publish2 is a social network and 2.0 platform for journalists (and independent “news bloggers,” “citizen” journalists, student journalists, i.e. ALL journalists, BROADLY defined), which aims to put journalists at the center of news aggregation on

Exalead, a French search engine involved in the Quaero project, has joined up with ACAP. Google and Yahoo are no doubt trembling.

"Advertising in traditional media, whether newspapers, magazines, or TV, is all about selling a scare resource — space. The problem is that on the web there’s a nearly infinite amount of space."

"I don’t come across many small-scale websites which couldn’t be done at least as well, or probably better, in WordPress. And now they’re introducing a proper workflow element, the middle market may be up for grabs too."

"The folks surfing in from Digg aren’t likely interested in local advertisers - and actually drag down our pageview to unique user count … What do you think? Is viral traffic good for building business?"

Scott Karp: "The problem that newspapers and other traditional media brands have is that they still see branding as a function of controlling the distribution channel, rather than branding each unit of content that must now live and survive on its own"