By and large, the digital news consumption experience is a poor one which I think is what really ails the news industry.

via Khoi Vinh, Subtraction.com: Thoughts on News and User Experience.

In just two weeks, Bone’s—which is Atlanta’s most famed steakhouse and has 1,350 labels in their catalog—sold 11 percent more wine than in the three weeks previous to the iPad introduction. …. It’s not the novelty factor, the Bone’s owners and clients say. The reason is simple and logical: Reviews.

via Jesus Diaz, Why iPads Increase Wine Sales at Restaurants?.

Without a staff of old-school journalists, Gawker has managed to rack up over 10 million visitors a month who come because the rumors and snark meet their definition of quality – without any of the institutional qualities of old media.

Ben Elowitz, Traditional Ways Of Judging ‘Quality’ In Published Content Are Now Useless | paidContent.

I read lots of articles from mainstream media but I don’t go to mainstream media directly to read it. It comes to me […]. More and more people are choosing social filters for their news rather than professional filters. We’re tuning out television news, we’re tuning out newspapers. And we still hear about the important stuff […]. It’s news that matters. I figure by the time something gets to me it’s been vetted by those I trust.

via Henry Blodget, Chris Anderson’s Unbelievably Annoying Interview with Spiegel

[T]he challenges facing newspapers should not extrapolated into challenges facing journalism–or, for that matter, the world that depends on it.

via Henry Blodget, On Our Third Birthday, Some Thoughts On Digital Media And The Future Of The Newspaper Business | Business Insider.

We pay them in visibility. We pay them in that we provide the infrastructure, the community, the civil environment into which their work appears. The traffic. And then also the fact that many in the media have the site bookmarked means that they’re going to be seen, not just by many people, but many of the people they may want to reach to go on TV, to get a book contract. We love it. We all love it on the site when we get a call from an agent saying “Can you get us in touch with so-and-so blogger?” In many ways, it becomes like an addition platform.

via Arianna Huffington, Huffington talks convergence, and “monetizeable free” » Nieman Journalism Lab.

[E]ven if they can turn the corner and evolve their business models on the Web, the generally ruthless economics of publishing in that environment has already made [legacy] publishers unalterably averse to the significant expenses of art directing content.

Khoi Vinh, Subtraction.com: Show Me the Money (for Art Direction).