Thought I’d share two more daily email alerts I’ve established, one to look out for references to “social media” in the mainstream media (no hobby blogs, that is) and another which aggregates the UK digital media industry verticals.

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Feel the love. Or hate.

If all has gone well, you should see it below.

Doesn’t work! / Not bad at all.

Update: Seems you can only have one on each page, so have removed this one and left the more recent “love/hate” search in place.

For a few months I’ve been monitoring this on a piecemeal basis: a saved search for “newspaper industry” on Tweetdeck here, a Google Alert for the same phrase there, that kind of thing

But I thought I’d take the opportunity to expand on this and also open it up to others, particularly those who might like to have the whole shebang delivered by email, rather than faff around with saved searches and suchlike.

I took RSS feeds produced by a search for “newspaper industry” on Google News, Twitter, Technorati, BlogPulse and Twingly (thanks to @MartinSFP for suggesting that last one).

I mixed these together using Feed Informer (which also produces the live headlines below) and Feeburner handles the email subscriptions.

If you think I’ve missed any search engines out, or think there’s a better search term than “newspaper industry”, drop me a line.

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Topsy 
http://topsy.com 
In their own words: “Topsy listens to the conversations taking place all the time on the living, social web. This is the rapidly growing, exciting world of Twitter, Blogs, Flickr, Digg, Yelp, Identica and many other communities. People use these communities to share reviews, opinions, messages, comments and discussions about things. Topsy indexes those things. Topsy indexes what people are talking about.” 

Scoopler 
http://www.scoopler.com 
In their own words: “We aggregate and organize content being shared on the internet as it happens, like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. We do this by constantly indexing live updates from services including Twitter, Flickr, Digg, Delicious and more. When you search for a topic on Scoopler, we give you the most relevant results, updated in real-time.” 

Microplaza 
http://microplaza.com 
In their own words: “We wanted a way to discover relevant and interesting items from the people we follow on Twitter. Most of the time something interesting is a link shared by a friend or colleague. So we built MicroPlaza to deliver us the filtered links from our Twitter timelines. It’s our discovery engine, our personal newswire and just so god damn addictive!” 

Tweetmeme 
http://tweetmeme.com 
In their own words: “Tweetmeme is a service which aggregates all the popular links on twitter to determine which links are popular. Tweetmeme is able to categorize these links into categories and subcategories, making it easy to filter out the noise to find what your interested in.”

Live TV : Ustream

British households spend a total of £76m on newspapers and magazines every week – the equivalent of £1.37 per person in the country per week.

People over 65 and those in Northern Ireland spend the most on them according to the latest Family Spending Survey, which shows that in 2006 the average British household spent £2 a week on newspapers and £1 on magazines, 0.65 per cent of households’ weekly spending.

The £3 average is up slightly from 2001/2 when families spent an average of £2.90 down from 2003/4 and 2004/5 when the figure was £3.10.

More: http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=40100&c=1

(Not sure what ‘dead trees’ have to do with this? Wikipedia has a few lines on this here.)

The social networking phenomenon is set to intensify this year with the launch of new specialist communities and the further commercialisation of services, according to a report from analysts at Experian.

The report, The Impact of Social Networking, says companies will want to tap the trend for social networking but will tailor services for niche audiences that will attract advertisers.

More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/15/facebook.myspace

One noteworthy pull quote:

ComScore said social networking sites collectively saw 25 million unique users during November, with each user spending an average 334 minutes on the sites and making 24 separate visits.

Best Books Website – www.amazon.com

Best Celebrity Website – www.holymoly.co.uk

Best Cookery Website – www.bbcgoodfood.com

Best Electrical Website – www.amazon.com

Best Environmental Website – www.greenpeace.org.uk

Best Fashion Website – www.next.co.uk

Best Food Website – www.tesco.com

Best Gardening Website – www.gardenersworld.com

Best Homes Website – www.rightmove.co.uk

Best Kids Website – www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies

Best Local Government Website – www.manchester.gov.uk

Best News Website – www.bbc.co.uk

Best Online Retailer – www.amazon.com

Best Search Website – www.google.com

Best Travel Website – www.lastminute.com

Best Video Website – www.play.com

Best Wedding Website – www.confetti.co.uk

More: http://www.netimperative.com/news/2008/january/14/bt-reveals-nations-favourite-websites

Online video sharing sites are reaping the benefits of the ongoing writers’ strike in the US. According to net measurement firm Nielsen Online, some online video sites have doubled their audience since the strike began at the end of October.

More: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7180889.stm