-Techs slashed inventories and output
-M&A stirred interest in tech

-She cautions that publications should be wary of a “walled garden” approach. She warned that subscriptions will probably only work for a few niches — like specific financial research or weird porn. Instead she says content needs to be free, available and cross-linked on various sites to drive traffic.

-More time reimagining The Huffington Post as what she calls an “Internet newspaper.”
-“Success on the Web is defined by spotting niches and serving them well,”
-Mr. Lerer estimated that it would raise $6 million to $10 million this year, twice the amount of last year.
-The company has at least looked at the value of the site if it were put up for sale, and a figure around $200 million was used.
-The Post is suffering some growing pains. A number of people have ungracefully departed in the past year, a situation Mr. Lerer attributed to the difficulty in transforming “old media” employees.
-As new topical subsites come online, especially the one for local news, the site will increasingly try to act as an Internet curator with a distinct attitude, mixing blog posts, original news and links to other sources.

As for my five-word speech, while we liked a lot of the ones you submitted, I ended up going with one suggested by HuffPost’s editor Roy Sekoff and our media editor Danny Shea: “I didn’t kill newspapers…okay?”

Social Media Release from IABC, Views of Comms Professionals on the lifespan of Twitters popularity – http://tinyurl.com/lf35v3

running a completely transparent, highly viral campaign that will most likely be worth far more than the cost of 10 MacBooks when completed.

Facebook is making it so users can share links, text, video and photographs with either their friends, a sub-set of their friends, or — just like Twitter — “everyone