Canary In The Coalmine: NYT Sees First Decline In Online Ad Revenues

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Note: I saw I can use “ShareThis” to post to my blog via Social Media – though it doesn’t really add anything more than the link back.   More and more, I’m finding that my blogging is spilling into my Facebook Feeds and into Friendfeed – and I’m trying to bring that richness back to this blog – but so far, haven’t had much luck.

It seems none of the plugins I’ve found actually replicates my entire Facebook profile feed as a widget that I can put in the sidebar – Facebook Connect doesn’t seem to do that, either, at least, not yet.

Next year, I think we’ll see more and more blogging morphing into mini feeds, like what we’ve seen in Facebook, FriendFeed and even, the Google Search Wiki.

And mind you, for the New York Times to have declining online ad revenue just bespeaks to the overall weakness of the economy – advertisers are holding back, more and more on spending – partly because, people have less and less money left to buy anything.

With out that – money, liquidity, credit – whatever, the only thing left is advertising for Branding, or to inform of an event or service.

What’s surprising is the downturn in advertising at the New York Times wasn’t more.

BTW, an interesting side thread on more activity going into mini feeds and away from blogs – and dare I say – newspapers – Of Course There Is a Social Media Backlash Coming.

But, so what – maybe mainstream media will turn into one big social network next year (who knows)?  My point being – if people are getting more involved in mini-feeds and micro blogging – maybe that’s because they suit us better – in some ways.

That’s what I’m grappling with too – I want to bring the richness of Facebook into my blog – but the functionality just isn’t there quite yet  – and I read well over 200 feeds a day – and comment on a lot of it – and that stuff is going into my Facebook feed and into Friendfeed – but not here ….

…. wouldn’t it be nice if it could also be here and illuminate my blog posts?