Nexpo preview

Editor & Publisher's preview of the main editorial system exhibitors at Nexpo this week. Short summaries of the "cross media solutions" being offered by CCI, Netlinx, Eidos Media, etc.
From (Editor & Publisher)

Figures for US news sites

Nielsen/NetRatings have released figures for the 20 most popular news websites in the United States. CNN, MSNBC and Yahoo! top the list, but several newspapers get a look-in. The New York Times comes fourth with a unique audience of 7.6 million; Gannett group comes sixth (6 million); and the Washington Post seventh (5.4 million).
(From Editor & Publisher)

Irish Times tries background ads

Norbert Specker on E Media Tidbits has spotted that the Irish Times is trying out background sponsor messages on its World Cup coverage. See example. Specker is also taking a snapshot of the world's coverage of the World Cup — a nice example of differing perspectives on a single event.
(From E-Media Tidbits)

Blog, blog, blog...

I know I'm part of the problem and all, but I do find it a little exasperating the way that weblogs seem to err towards the opposite of what they set out to be (individualistic, off-beat, drawing readers' attention to stuff they would otherwise not know about). Just look at blogdex. Obviously an index of the most referred-to stories in weblogs will highlight the lowest common denominator. But it's interesting how the subject matters have changed. When blogdex was launched, the most popular stories on weblogs tended to be amusing or controversial. Nowadays, it's almost always stories about blogging. And the mainstream media's fetishising of the subject doesn't help.
(From American Journalism Review)

Newspapers still Britons' favoured read

Research commissioned by the Orange Fiction Prize found that people spend on average two hours a week reading newspapers. Two hundred couples were surveyed. The daily reading average was: Newspapers: 17 minutes; Fiction, 11 minutes; Internet, 7 minutes; Magazines, 5 minutes, Reference books, 2 minutes.
(From BBC News)

Big screen iMacs in Q3

Quanta Computer, the manufacturers of Apple's LCD screen iMac, is due to start producing 17in and 19in iMacs in the third quarter, according to DigiTimes. No indication yet of how much they will cost.
(From DigiTimes)