A nice breakdown of who the players are in the battle for online advertising.

Some not-surprising yet still sobering trends in news consumption. Numbers from The Pew Research Center. Newspaper readers 1993: 58% 2008: 34%. Local TV News: 1993: 77% 2008: 52%. Nightly network news: 1993: 60% 2008: 29%

Story re. local content. Following is quote from post:

"First, Tolles does some rough math:

'There are about 1,400 daily newspapers and 7,000 television and radio stations in the U.S., and back-of-the-envelope math shows that they each produce about three to six stories per day, or about 22,000 local stories for the entire U.S.'

If you ask me, he’s severely underestimating the number of local stories. Nevertheless, he says there’s a “vacuum” of local news. Which, if you look at it at a neighborhood level, you could argue he’s right."

Synopsis of a review of a book about the building of Washington, DC. Interesting even for a DC bred boy like me.

Bellows Falls, Vermont sounds like my kind of town based on this story. Instead of allowing the town to fade into the sunset the residents are exhibiting a boot strap entrepreneurial streak.