It's 25 degrees outside, and much more in this office. I know I shouldn't grumble as we're within spitting distance of the beach, but it's hard to stay focused with all these bronzed beach types wandering past the window. And I've developed a nasty chest cold. Oh joy.Piers update
• Quaking boots Batman - Piers Morgan's new Press Gazette will be covering absolutely everything to do with the media and will do it all brilliantly, he told the Independent. He wants tentacles everywhere, and will be 'shamelessly nicking' ideas from PG's neighbours.
"Apart from taking on the long-established trade magazines that cover other areas of the media, Morgan also wants to target the suppliers of online media news, notably the MediaGuardian website."
"What I want is, within a year, everyone clicking on to Press Gazette just as much, because we are breaking more stories and have more interesting ideas. We will be very aggressive online."
Media Guardian must be bricking it.
The iTelegraph?
• More teasers; the new Sunday Telegraph editor Sarah Sands told MediaGuardian she'd "like the paper to be like your iPod". Alas, Ms Sands doesn't explore that analogy any further, so there's no opportunity to find out just how she'll make the paper so great that you'll be mugged for it.
Waldman on blogging
• Some snippets from Simon Waldman, the Guardian's director of digital publishing. In a recent Guardian piece Mr Waldman described how Guardian content creates a 'secondary market' because it triggers debate and connections in the blogosphere. "Ironically, as papers sell fewer and fewer copies in the western world, their content has never been so widely read, so talked about, so linked to and generated so much energy."
He touched on blogging and publishing trends again at Internet World last week, faithfully recorded by NetImperative.
Webcams
• The latest research from Pew found that 16 per cent of adult Americans - 21 million people - have looked at web cam footage online. I'm sure all of those were as clean as this handy web cam - one of Fistral's less impressive surfin' days.
Google watch and random bits
• More news from the Google empire: an online payment system similar to PayPal might be introduced before the end of the year, and satellite maps have been introduced to Google Maps UK. Hours of fun.
• I missed this at the time, but it's worth a mention that the Register was recently confirmed as the UK's most popular audited tech site, according to ABCE. US traffic accounted for 43 per cent of the site's traffic or 1.4 million unique users.
• There's a Manchester drinks evening on 6 July for journalists in the North West - more details on our events page.
• Thanks to a magic pixie, I'll be down at Worthy Farm for four days with my leaky tent and several buckets of Lemsip. Looks like sun!
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