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Posting by US journalism academic Carrie Lisa Brown on the difficulties faced by print journalists as the industry moves online.

From start-ups to big media, it's all about sharing - content, costs and platforms.

With bosses focused on commerce and ratings, papers are falling behind where it really matters, says Roy Greenslade - creating online material and innovations people are prepared to pay for.

Consulting firm faberNovel have picked apart Google's strategy and its business model in this 34-page slideshow. It asks, and answers, why Google won't be affected by the economic crisis,how it plans to compete with Facebook and why it is expanding into projects as diverse as voice recognition and satellites.

The rule that Internet veterans have sworn by for years, that a website should be designed so that a user finds their content within three clicks is not a valid principle, Hoa Loranger told the audience at the NNG usability workshop in Amsterdam.

Here are ten things every newspaper (magazine or other) website can do to build their business by building their community.

OneRiot - a social search engine that finds the pulse of the web.

Webmasters often ask us at conferences or in the Webmaster Help Group, "What are some simple ways that I can improve my website's performance in Google?" We thought it'd be useful to create a compact guide that lists some best practices that teams within Google and external webmasters alike can follow that could improve their sites' crawlability and indexing.

The BBC is to introduce social networking across its websites, having dropped out of the top five most popular sites in the UK last month. October's Comscore UK figures showed that Facebook had climbed to fifth in the rankings, edging out BBC sites, including BBC iPlayer.

Following his comments to the Society of Editors (SoE) conference on the meaningless of monthly unique users stats for newspaper website advertisers, Martin Clarke, editorial director of Mail Online, spoke with Journalism.co.uk about what improvements are needed for web metrics.

Magazine publishing, an industry that outpaced U.S. economic growth by 30 percent last year, is now in freefall.

"People turn to Twitter during shared, real-time events—these debates and this election was so massively shared that Twitter benefited from huge increases in both activity and exposure," Stone wrote in an e-mail.

Video games are predicted to become the UK's most popular form of entertainment this year, it was reported today. UK consumers are expected to spend £4.64bn on video games in 2008 - an increase of 42% - with music and video sales accounting for a total of £4.46bn, analysts from Verdict Research told the BBC.

The most popular blogs are rightwing, ranging from the considered Tory views of Iain Dale, to the vicious nihilism of Guido Fawkes. Perhaps this is simply anti-establishment. Blogs have only existed under a Labour government. Perhaps if there was a Tory government, all the leading blogs would be left-of-centre?

According to CNN, the fortnightly newspaper could not wait until its next edition - three days after the election - to declare the result, so it took a leap of faith and called it for Barack Obama on 26 October.

According to CNN, the fortnightly newspaper could not wait until its next edition - three days after the election - to declare the result, so it took a leap of faith and called it for Barack Obama on 26 October.

Broadcaster CNN has pulled out all the stops in its coverage of the US election by using Star Wars-style holograms to interview journalists. On the program The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer, journalist Jessica Yellin appeared to be projected onto the floor as she was interviewed by the show's host.

In a bleak prognosis of the industry's future, Guardian Media Group chief executive Carolyn McCall said the provision of local news was becoming "increasingly uneconomic."