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According to Editor & Publisher, daily circulation for the 395 newspapers that reported data to the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) this month fell 7% in the last six months to about 34 million. Sunday circulation, which is traditionally a lot higher than daily circulation, also fell 5.3% to about 42 million. Of the top 25 newspapers, only the Wall Street Journal, which still hides most of its online content behind a paywall, saw a small increase in its numbers (0.6%), while almost half of the top 25 papers saw double-digit declines, with the Atlanta Journal Constitution losing almost 20% of its daily circulation.

Walter Mossberg, who has been reviewing technology since 1991 for the Wall Street Journal in his weekly "Personal Technology" column, is convinced the companies that succeed in this type of econaclypse, as AllThingsD has dubbed the economy, will be those that focus on innovation. "It has been my observation that while things do slow down in bad times, they don't stop," Mossberg said.

Speaking to a packed room this week at the Dow Jones VentureWire Technology Showcase in Redwood City CA, Mossberg, the "Most Influential Computer Journalist" according to Time Magazine, described the trends that excite him right now as happening both in computer hardware and computer software: outside the browser Web applications, service in the cloud, and hand held computers.

Monthly political and cultural editorial magazine, The Atlantic, announced in an editor's note this week that it would be ditching its subscriber registration requirement to view online content. The magazine's printed content, including archives from 1995-present, is now free for the general public on its web site. Archives dating back to 1857 are available as part of a for-pay premium pass program (though some of those articles should be in the public domain, right?), excluding articles from January, 1964 - September, 1992, which are left out for copyright purposes.