New Media Indicators

Collection of snippets that indicate the direction of new media:

6/9/06: Topix.net, the news aggregator, starts offering free classifieds like Craigslist.

6/5/06:
"U.S. Internet advertising surged 38 percent to a record $3.9 billion in the first quarter as marketers moved additional dollars to the Web." - Internet Advertising Bureau

"The internet will overtake national newspapers in the battle for advertising spending in the UK by the end of the year." - The Guardian

5/16/06: Gannett buys local search vendor Planet Discover

4/06: The Bakersfield Californian stopped running AP stories online last November. (source: Editor & Publisher)

4/13/06: NEWSPAPERS WILL BECOME PRIMARILY ONLINE products at varying paces over the next decade, according to Ken Doctor, a lead analyst with Outsell Inc.

4/10/06: Starting May 1, fans can go to ABC.com to watch each of the season's final four episodes of Lost, Desperate Housewives, Commander in Chief and Alias on the morning after the episodes air on network TV.

4/8/06: Headlines are being optimized for Google and other spiders: "Part of the craft of journalism for more than a century has been to think up clever titles and headlines, and Google comes along and says, 'The heck with that,' " observed Ed Canale, vice president for strategy and new media at The Sacramento Bee.