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Ad Spending For All Forms Of Media Sees Decline In Q1 2009

As we rapidly approach the end of the second quarter of 2009 there is still news trickling in from what happened in Q1. As suspected, that news is not good. A study by TNS Media Intelligence was reported in today’s WSJ and ad spend for media including TV, print and online display ads fell 14% year to year to $30.8 billion.

Google Promotes Profiles by Giving Away Business Cards

Google has been directing a lot of attention toward Google Profiles lately. They begin offering a vanity URL feature for them, and began displaying them in search results. Now they are actually offering business cards for them. The company is giving away  10,000 sets of 25 Google Profile business cards for free.

Newspapers Finally Get Some Good News

It seems that the only time we write about newspapers these day is to write another obituary or speculate on which newspaper is on its last legs

Newspapers Are A Dying Breed, Will You Miss Them?

I don’t read the Raleigh News & Observer during the week, but I do enjoy reading it at the weekend. There’s something relaxing and familiar about reading printed news with my coffee and breakfast. As much as I enjoy the experience, I’ve noticed that more and more ads are filling up the pages–with less articles, and in some cases, complete sections being retired.

'Print Is Dead' - Not According To This Study

Last week was a rough one for the newspaper industry.

Yahoo Not Doing Too Bad in Newspapers

Google recently announced that it would be shutting down its print advertising business after announcing the pulling of the plug on a number of other services last week.

Google Adds Magazines to Book Search

Google's quest to organize all the world's information has taken another step forward today with the announcement that magazines are now appearing in Google Book Search. In time, these results will also become part of regular Google searches.

PC Magazine Says Goodbye To Print

Since PC Magazine is for the tech crowd the announcement that the publication (can’t call it a magazine anymore I guess) would cease printing a hard copy and be a strictly online operation isn’t a surprise.

PC Magazine Abandons Print, Moves Online

Following in the footsteps of other publishers, Ziff Davis said today it will drop the print edition of its popular PCMag and will focus on its online property PCMag.com.

Electronic Newspaper Reader Debuts

Plastic Logic has launched a new electronic newspaper reader similar to Amazon's Kindle, but it's about the size of a regular piece of copy paper. Like the Kindle, this reader utilizes E-Ink's black and white display technology.