The display advertising units that the Online Publishers Association released last year are gaining traction among OPA members, and even some non-members.

When posting the obituary of late author J.D. Salinger, the New York Times forgot to give the story one last proofreading:

While all eyes are on the New York Times and its “frequent payer” experiment, several other funding developments are being overlooked.

Last week, as the media blogosphere analyzed the announcement of a paywall at the New York Times, I was more fascinated with another recent obsession of mine: Foursquare.

The economy and the continued downward slide of advertising-based media companies brought radical changes to the way the media industry operated in 2009. Like it or not, 2010 will continue the trend.

Here are nine bold predictions about the industry for the year ahead:

Can you remember life before the Internet? When a personal computer was another name for a handheld calculator? When publishing was a process that required a printing press?

If you’re old enough to remember hot type, the pica stick, and manual typewriters, and you’re active in 21st century online publishing, you’re a “retread.” Congratulations on being smart, adaptable and unafraid to embrace technological change.

I’m 53 years old. I’m a retread, too. And proud of it.

The news that Microsoft is offering to pay News Corp. and possibly other publishers to remove their content from Google’s search engine in favor of Microsoft’s Bing (first reported by FT.com) shows more than anything that Microsoft is happy to assist Rupert Murdoch in his holy war against free content and Google.

If there was a reoccurring conversation topic at CUNY’s New Business Models for Local News event it was: we are not alone.