FAS-FAX Preview: Circ Numbers To Take Another Big Hit
“According to industry sources, overall daily circulation for the six months ending March 2007 is expected to sink approximately 2.5% while Sunday will drop around 3.0%” Major metros take the biggest blows. Interesting news contrast: Newspaper Web Site Traffic Sets New Record

MTV Drops Flash Site in Favor of (Boring) HTML
“So, what’s better about the new site — can you guess? * It’s faster. * The navigation is simpler. * The internal search works better”

Newsvine Relaunches… Announcing Evergreen
“Newsvine Evergreen begins today with the relaunch of the front page but is part of a much bigger effort to spread the vine outside the walls of our own domain and into all corners of the internet and blogosphere; the goal being to bring the news to wherever it naturally wants to go.”

Video tips from award-winning videographers
Angela breaks it down to nugget form in her fancy (what I’m calling) ‘brushed aluminum appliance’ blog, NewsVideographer.com. (Hopefully that URL doesn’t keep her in a video-only box. I’m stoked she’s going to focus and preach her rational newspaper video gospel, she also has many great ideas about multimedia user experiences that we all need to hear.)

Google surpasses Microsoft as world’s most-visited site
“The Mountain View search engine has outstripped Microsoft on two fronts, becoming both the most visited Web site and the most valuable global brand.” Zune flops. Vista flops. Now this!

2007 EPpy Award finalists announced
I’ll just going to stick to my ‘not talking about my work’ blog policy on here and as with the 3 other times this year my work been a finalist/won something. Yep. Nothin’ to see here. Move along.

Self-destructive pseudojournalism
“24-hour television news has created a terrible vacuum into which the worst possible garbage is pulled. Celebrity trash. Shouting heads. Political demagogues masquerading as journalists. Result: Fewer people today can name the vice president, their own governor, or the president of Russia today than in 1989. And the best-informed Americans are the ones who watch Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.”

Moyers: An Entrepreneur Will Save Journalism
“What also gives me hope is that in a market society, sooner or later some entrepreneur is going to figure out how to make a fortune by offering people news they can trust. Millions of Americans care about our democracy, they want high-quality information because they know freedom dies of too many lies, and surely in this new age of innovation someone’s going to figure out that good journalism can be profitable”

Nominate a digital media ‘Rising Star’
“OMMA magazine is looking for people to highlight for their upcoming ‘Rising Media Stars of 2007′ edition.”

The Roanoke Times: 404 Not Found : Covering the Tech shootings
Notes from Roanoke on covering the VT shooting.

WPNI Launches Environment-Friendly Shopping Site
More newspapers getting into niche websites!

Center releases study on newspaper business blogs
“The study, commissioned by the Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism, appears to only have covered blogs hosted by newspapers, not other business blogs such as TechCrunch and Sharesleuth.”

Piracy attacks map
Yarrrrg. Pirates. No mashup of ninja attacks. Just a Ninja Turtle projection ads on buildings

A few Long Tail basics for newspapers
“1. Some of your content appeals to many of your readers. 2. Most of your content appeals to smaller groups of your readers. 3. Some of your content appeals to few of your readers.” Good discussion in the comments, too.

Report: 80 percent of blogs contain “offensive” content
This is fucking bullshit.

American Copy Editors Headline Contest
“The American Copy Editors Society has announced the 2006 Nationwide Headline Contest winners and the Robinson Prize — awarded for excellence in copy editing…” (via)

The Dip by Seth Godin: Not settling
“I’m having the time of my life and in less than 6 months, I have accomplished more in a small business with minimal budgets than I have in 5 years in a huge bank with billion dollar revenues.”