AdAge recently reported that “Ad pages for consumer magazines monitored by Publishers Information Bureau slipped 0.8% in the first six months of 2008. Measured magazine ad spending dropped 1.8% in the first half, according to TNS Media Intelligence.”

But then: “Digital gains help make up for print-page losses.” AdAge reported from its Magazine 300 survey that digital share ranged from 0.3% to 38%, with median digital share of 9.75% - up from a 5% median digital share reported in the 2006 survey.

(Crossposted on KStreetCafe.com.) My colleague Brad Fitch writes in the K Street Café about the bailout plan, “What’s Driving Citizen Outrage?” Fitch takes a smart look at the factors underlying the passion, and recognizes a true “grassroots” advocacy campaign when he sees one.

Pat McMurray of Quinn Gillespie was kind enough to forward me an article called “Mistaken Identity” from last week’s Wall Street Journal. Emily Steel of the Journal makes the point that online marketers have come a long way in micro-targeting consumers, but still have a long way to go. In some cases, a very funny long way to go.

Esquire's 75th anniversary edition won't make you a frothy, skim espresso but it will entertain and even slightly fascinate you. Esquire is the first consumer publication to utilize E-Ink's technology; the technology is also utilized by E-book devices and Motorola's MOTOPHONE.

Scott Karp, a former colleague at Atlantic Media who's now the brains AND brawn behind Publish2, is a fervent advocate of link journalism -- and in general, I agree with him.

The last few days, however, Scott has been pushing the idea that every news site should have a headline-aggregation ticker on its homepage. And I have to say, I'm skeptical.

Jeff Jarvis is -- as usual -- right on target with this post that pillories Los Angeles Times staffers for suing Tribune owner Sam Zell when their own complacency and hubris over the past 15+ years is at least as much to blame. Far too many journalists are whiny, arrogant, cynical and hyper-critical -- that hard-wired suspicion, pessimism and self-regard can be a huge help when channeled into thorough, dogged reporting, but it's a royal pain when it comes to life in the newsroom.

That said, it's worth noting that the LA Times actually has been an innovator and experimenter in the world of online journalism. Way back in the early 1990s -- when the paper was still the Times Mirror Corp. flagship -- it launched TimesLink, a subscription-based online news service on the Prodigy platform.

Here’s a story to warm the heart: Radio goes video!

KCRW radio, the awesome college radio station at California's Santa Monica College, is going video!

Anne Eisenberg’s story in the New York Times oggled at 124,000 views of 67 convention clips shot by KCRW staffers the Democratic Convention last month in Denver.

They used cell phones – Nokia N95 phones on the AT&T 3G network – uploaded to the KCRW web using Kyte’s streaming services (www.kyte.com).

At our September 24th Media Future Now lunch, we will begin discussing business models for the successful new media company. We’ve spent the last year talking about the new, the nifty, the crafty, the ideas, and the methods for what’s being done. What about things that actually work?

Today and this month we will write about business models.

Our new media focus turns to how businesses are going to survive and thrive in new media.

I have a huge love of classical music, so I was intrigued recently when the Washington Post profiled Medici.tv and Monteverdi.tv Monteverdi.tv and other web channels betting on an audience for live and recorded broadcasts of musical performances,

TechCrunch has the details on a federal-court summary judgement involving Veoh.

The judges guidelines for what consitutes "reasonable precautions" for a sites that serve up user-posted video seem reasonable. Combined with last week's ruling on fair use, it's almost like there's some sanity emerging in the world of digital copyright...