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'The challenge is not to save newspapers, but journalism'

Sunday, 5 July 2009

Citizen hacks using Twitter and camera phones go where reporters can't.

The Independent launches new mobile site

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

The Independent has launched a faster, simplified version of its website for mobile phones.

Google hits back at WSJ's 'internet vampire' claims

Monday, 29 June 2009

Google has vowed to heal the rift with newspaper publishers facing up to the digital age, rejecting claims that it is an "internet vampire". The internet search portal's comments came after Les Hinton, the chief executive of The Wall Street Journal, last week criticised Google for "sucking the blood" out of the newspaper business.

Aren't bloggers people too?

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

I knew when I started my blog that I was opening myself up to public scrutiny. I knew criticism was a possibility, but with a self-esteem intact, I thought I could handle it with a smile and polite nod.

Rob Williams: The ten best Welsh political blogs

Friday, 19 June 2009

There is quite an interesting (if navel gazing) discussion going on over at welshbloggers about the state of the Welsh blogosphere.

19th-century newspapers resurrected online

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Drunkenness and street violence are rife in a nation gripped by a financial crisis due to collapsing banks. Headlines are dominated by cross-dressing talent contest winners and the desire for revenge over Australia in the summer Ashes series.

Rhodri Marsden: What's the point in online petitions?

Thursday, 18 June 2009

'm aware that in even posing this question I'm setting myself up to be lynched as the kind of cynic who believes – in a non-committal, couldn't-really-care-less kind of way – that there's barely any point in doing anything, that expending any effort over and above the bare minimum is a terrible waste of precious energy that could be better allocated to lounging around and complaining bitterly about stuff.

The Big Question: Is Britain finally on the verge of a digital revolution?

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

You can now taste rice and peas in a pod

Monday, 15 June 2009

A new BBC podcast highlights the black diaspora across Britain, reports Ian Burrell

Rhodri Marsden: The net's impact on the Queen's English

Wednesday, 10 June 2009

There's a post over at Everything2 which addresses the slow erosion of the proper order of fullstops, commas and quotation marks in online discussion. Apparently, keen to avoid mistakes being reproduced when placing code in quotation marks, geeks have taken to always putting fullstops and commas outside the quotation marks regardless of context