According to this post from the Kelsey Group 60 million people a day in the US now use search engines.

US site Editor and Publisher charts the more than 1,900 newspaper jobs it says have been lost in the US in 2005. It blames rising costs and falling circulations.

Robert Scoble discusses the future of journalism with San Jose University.

According to Micropersuasion a study by PR Week and Burson Marsteller found that 47% of CEOs think blogs are useful for PR.

Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion site lists “Ten Technorati Hacks” which is a very useful introduction to the service. Technorati should be in the workflow of all journalists at RBI.

This is a really useful list of things you can do with Rss.

Steve Reubel has ten RSS “hacks” that he suggests as a way to experience the power of RSS. Worth a read.

New PR Wiki has a useful list of corporations who are blogging.

Steve Reubel reports /a> on the launch of gada.be a new search engine from Chris Pirillo which could be a really useful tool for journalists wanting to set up persistent searches on topics which you can run time and time again – just add the word you want to search on in front of “gada.be” and save to favourites [eg. boeing.gada.be].

The Blog Herald reports in its Blog Count in Octoberthat there are now over 100 million blogs in the world.