Google has rolled out real-time analytics for users of its free Analytics service. Surprisingly engaging to watch people coming and going on your site and seeing where they’re coming from.

As an aside, the most surprising search phrases that brought people to allaboutthestory.com this month include “I love oil” “possum fur prices 2011″ and “kawhia fish receipts”.

Google has announced dates for further winding down its Wave service:

“As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave.”

Shayne Currie becomes editor of NZ Herald (Monday to Friday)

Rick Ellis to leave TVNZ

Latest NZ newspaper stats a mixed bag for print, but big rises for online and mobile

Media giant accused of trying to influence vote

Fairfax sees drop in revenue in year to date

APN jumps on AR bandwagon

John B. Fairfax sells out of company that bears his name

Australian newspaper circulation falls 3.5 per cent

The Times and Sunday Times cut 150 editorial posts

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp profits jump 15pc on cable TV business

Phone hacking inquiry: Hugh Grant lets rip

Election night has come and gone and we can expect to find out the final results (once special votes have been counted and confirmed) in the next couple of weeks. You will find the official results on the Electoral Commission website here.

If you want to check out how some of the NZ media covered the build-up to the election and election night itself, have a look the blog post we updated during election night as the results came in. You’ll also find links to the main news sites if you want to follow up on post-election news.

A couple of persuasive examples from Guardian Special Projects Editor Paul Lewis who talks about how Twitter and other social media helped him find witnesses to the death of newspaper seller Ian Tomlinson during riots in London and track down passengers on the aircraft Jimmy Mubenga died on while being deported from the UK to Angola.

Not many jobs on offer at the moment, but what we’ve found you can see here:

Online producer, freelance writers, journalism tutor – #journalism #jobs

Food for thought from a German study of violinists which found that the elite players worked quite differently to those who didn’t achieve as much.

“The elite players were spending almost three times more hours than the average players on deliberate practice — the uncomfortable, methodical work of stretching your ability.

“[They] consolidated their work into two well-defined periods… one in the morning and one in the afternoon.”

Meanwhile, here’s a visualisation of one of Da Vinci’s to-do lists.

One from the ‘CHECK before you send’ files.

Snopes, the website that checks which rumours and urban legends are true, verifies that a bank in the UK did indeed once send out emails addressed: Dear Rich Bastard.

It happened because someone had used the phrase as placeholder text while the program was being worked on. By the time it went out, a new staff member was working on it and they didn’t notice the placeholder text.

Not unlike those pesky placeholder headlines and terrible typos that sometimes sneak their way into print.

Thinking about launching a start-up? It’s hard work. This guy writes about how to beat the blues when you’re in the middle of a start-up and everything isn’t going right.