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Internet ad-spend has overtaken newspaper ad-spend and is now second behind TV (which is double everything else):

Online advertising expenditure jumped 41.2% to £2.01bn during the year, the report by the Internet Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers said. In contrast, spending on national newspaper ads grew just 0.2% to £1.9bn, taking a 10.7% share of the market.

FeedJournal lets users subscribe to RSS feeds and have a newspaper view delivered to them every morning in PDF format, ready to be printed.

The main problem with it is that it is a .NET desktop application. It also doesn’t seem to support images of any kind.

Jon Udell writes:

Today I created a private blog site — that is, Internet-accessible but SSL-and-password-protected — and realized that there was no easy way for most people to subscribe to it. Even if the popular cloud-based readers like Bloglines and Google Reader supported authenticated feeds, I wouldn’t want to let them use my credentials to impersonate me.

So how do we support authenticated feeds with web-based solutions?

Google Maps has announced support for GeoRSS which allows RSS items to be geographically located.

Checkout the Slashdot feed mapped onto Google Maps.

10 nice improvements for Google Reader.

NewsGator’s mobile aggregator, Go!, is now available on Java enabled phones as well as Blackberries. It used to be a Windows Mobile only app.

Feedable is a decent looking aggregator. Not many features but one of the better interfaces. It does recommend feeds based on the category you are currently viewing which is handy.

A news source that has lately risen in popularity is an automated news aggregator, or a memetracker - a website that gathers news from many sources (usually RSS feeds) and sorts it according to time of publishing, relevance, importance, number of inbound links or other factors. The important part here is there is very little or no interference by living editors; news items are chosen and sorted by an algorithm, automatically.

Frantic Industries does a reasonable job summarising 8 memetrackers.