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Recently, we commented that the news publishing industry was eyeing the world of mobile news in an effort to capture a wider audience, as well as revenue. And while there is never a bad time to visit Paris, we wouldn't be surprised if some of the bigger names in news showed up in Paris during September for Ifra.

Ifra is the the research and service organization for the news publishing industry, based in Darmstadt, Germany. They will hold an international conference in Paris on September 18 & 19 with the objective to help newspaper companies explore the opportunities for business in mobile e-reading and to identify new ways to develop strong and profitable products in this area.

What's the saying, 'another man's trash is another man's treasure'? Well, it might not exactly summarize the situation facing print newspapers and their web counterparts, but you get the point.

What has been a dismal year for print newspapers, has also been a year of promise for newspaper websites. A report released by Nielsen Online for the Newspaper Association of America shows that newspaper web sites attracted nearly 66.4 million unique visitors on average -- 40.2 percent of all Internet users -- in the second quarter of 2008, a 12.2 percent increase over the same period, a year ago.

Even though it seems like all we online content management types like to do is dismiss the presence of print media, sometimes we can muster up the courage to offer up an acknowledgment for the traditional genre.

It seems that the continuing writer's strike is making people anxious and nervous. With growing access to free online content, shouldn't all writers - from film to television to newspapers - be compensated fairly for their content accessed on the Internet?

What's a Matchbin, you ask? Why, it's a website launched in 2002 as an automated barter marketplace. Later, it morphed into a wholesale web CMS-providin' do-hickey.

From the annals of News You Already Know comes two reports that shouldn't surprise you.

On Monday, Reuters reported that "four out of five U.S. adults" or "79 percent -- about 178 million -- go online" and spend an average of 11 hours a week on the Internet.