The Pew Internet and American Life Project has outdone itself this year. Over 1,000 Internet activists, builders and commentators taking part in the “Future of the Internet III” study have weighed in on how the Internet will look in 2010. Read on for the main takeaways from the 138-page report.

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George Irish, one of the principal architects of the Newspaper Consortium --- and one of the first senior newspaper execs to truly “get it” when it came to the impact of interactive media --- is retiring. Steve Swartz will succeed him.

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The AIM Group / Classified Intelligence is looking for a great sales exec. If you know anyone (or if you’re interested), please see our post and apply or pass it on!

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Sun Media lays off 600 staff, 10% of Canadian staff, joining Canwest and CTV in cutting numbers. Meanwhile, The Toronto Star has a new(ish) VP advertising as its editor departs.

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Small-market newspapers are well positioned for growth in online classifieds, if they position themselves and their sites correctly.

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The radical changes announced at the Detroit dailies may hasten the demise of print, but probably won’t have much impact on their classified advertising --- because they work now with CareerBuilder, Cars.com, Apartments.com and Homescape.com. 

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Do you spend too much time on social networking sites? Feel like you’re wasting a good part of your day updating your status? An irreverent and hilarious new Web site will tell you just how bad you’re doing.

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Estonia’s parliament has approved a law making it the first country to allow voting by mobile phone, according to AP. Estonians were allowed to to cast Internet ballots in last year’s elections.

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Sam Zell was interviewed by CNBC about the Tribune Co. bankruptcy, the Blagojevich scandal and alleged extortion attempt against the Chicago Tribune, and more. We link to the interview.

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The Tribune Co.’s troubles started when Sam Zell tried to apply the same strategy he used in the shipping container business to the newspaper industry, then got hit by the downturn in advertising in general and real estate in particular. A new initiative by The Los Angeles Times to offer foreclosure properties for sale from a separate joint venture may help turn around at least part of the mess.

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The advertising slowdown has everyone looking at ways to save money or make their spending more effective. Behavioral targeting is coming onto more people’s radar for both those reasons.  But advertisers need to be smart if they want results.

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Over 10 percent of viewers leave an online video a mere 10 seconds after starting it, and 53 percent are gone after a minute, according to new data from video analytics company TubeMogul.

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Bucking the tight-money trend, San Francisco-based real-estate search engine Roost Inc. secured $8 million in new funding on top of the $5.5 million previous raised. 

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Google has introduced extensive magazine archives and current magazines within its online Google Book Search.

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That banjo music you hear is from separate NPR interviews of New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller and Wall Street Journal Managing Editor Robert Thompson. It’s well worth a listen.

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Caroline Little, who ran WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive for almost five years, will begin in January as CEO of U.S. operations for Guardian News & Media, the U.K. company. 

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Following its Chapter 11 filing, the Tribune Co. has sent out a letter to its advertisers to reassure them that it’s still “business as usual” and that the company should come out restructured and stronger on the other end. Here’s the letter.

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Either they’re mind-readers, or the publishers at five Tribune Co. newspapers used the same ghost-writer to provide their “Letter to our readers” about the bankruptcy filing by the Tribune Co.

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Never mind the “might file”: The Tribune Co. has filed for bankruptcy in a Delaware federal court, The New York Times and The Wall Steet Journal are reporting.

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Here’s a handful of “must-read” articles from SeekingAlpha.com and AdAge --- most of them outlining the seemingly endless bad news for newspapers.

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