"Net Newsers", people who are typically under 35, university graduates, and well off, are redefining media habits in the US, by shunning traditional news services, such as newspaper and TV news broadcasts, in favour of sourcing news and information from blogs and online news websites. The biennial Pew Research Center report on changing news audiences described 13% of the US public as "net newsers" - web users under 35 ... Read full entry

Ten ways to go about encouraging more meaningful comments left in response to newspaper articles online. Derek Powazek has given the matter quite some thought. If you think bad comments bug you, they bug the good commenters twice as much. Yes, you should be paying someone on staff to be the Community Manager. In addition, you can also enable the community to help. Give every post a "This is ... Read full entry

Another point-of-view in the ongoing newspapers verses blogs as a source of trustworthy information debate: If online news services want to match the quality and depth of their print counterparts, they will need to hire, quite possibly, the very journalists working for the aforementioned newspapers. If online viewers want the level of news and opinion that print reporters generate, the Internet news services will hire reporters, defraying the cost out ... Read full entry

Graphic showing the number of newspaper reporting jobs in the US that have been scaled back recently. The total for 2008 stands at almost 6000 jobs so far. Via Australian Newsagency Blog.

Here's one way to recycle paper and create artworks at the same time, make up collages of nude women with newspapers, using in this case, London's Financial Times. Why would collage artist Natasha Archdale use the Financial Times, of all papers, though? It's printed on pink-coloured paper, that's why. A graduate of Bedales School and Cambridge Arts College, Archdale, 31, said she has been drawing the female form since ... Read full entry

While the local newspaper I read offers pretty good real time news in regards to extreme weather events, such as storms, Scott Karp found The Washington Post's recent coverage of, and access to, news of a local storm left much to be desired. While he feels The Washington Post has a very helpful weather blog, which offers useful, real time information, it is near nigh impossible to locate, ... Read full entry

Friday 11 January saw the last edition of the Sydney Morning Herald's special holiday lift-out, the aptly titled "Summer Herald" for this summer's holiday period. I've actually been buying the print edition of the SMH just to read this section these last two weeks. I guess this means the "official" end of the summer Christmas and New Year holiday period, so... what better time than to skip ... Read full entry

When it was established that I was the only "blogger" at the table the other evening, the assumptions I was a walking font of knowledge on all matters bloggy were not far behind. Mind you some of the questions were interesting, including "do you think blogging will bring about the demise of newspapers?" Now there's something that a lot of people have been talking about for a while, and there's certainly little ... Read full entry

Byte Me!: "is a Digital Content Festival, featuring a program of screenings, Show 'n Tells by Industry speakers from around the world, live audiovisual performances and innovative cross-media events." On in Perth, Western Australia, from 2 to 9 December 2007. + Astronomers defend asteroid warning mix-up: a miss is as good as a ... Read full entry