"But it wasn’t really designed to involve the process you and I would know as journalism. It was intended to produce a happy simulation of a television news broadcast to a standard adequate enough to satisfy regulators."

shows retweet numbers on top of pictures sent via twitter - nice way to visualise news

A Spanish community platform with blogs, profiles, networking, forums, etc...

In the Philippines, the ABS-CBN TV network has been training citizens – 1,000 in the first recent class, 700 in the next – to report on the upcoming election there. They call it the Boto Mo iPatrol and count 15,000 members.

Guardian's fourth plinth page

The Guardian asks it's audience to help ensure not a single moment of Antony Gormley project isn't missed (the oneandother website is a headshift project)

Another great one from Adam Gee at Channel4, Landshare connects landowners with would be farmers

Personally narrated by Anderson, Free considers a brave new world where the old economic certainties are being challenged by a growing flood of free goods – newspapers, DVDs, T-shirts, phones, even holiday flights.

Associated Digital Northcliffe, owner of the Daily Mail, launches hyper-local play

"It shows that – once we get beyond the classic journalistic question of “why is this lying bastard lying to me?” – once the data is in the public domain – that this information can be used to model the big questions of our time – turned into interfaces that allow us to explore and model problems."

Expanding copyright law to bar online access to copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, or to bar linking to or paraphrasing copyrighted materials without the copyright holder's consent, might be necessary to keep free riding on content financed by online newspapers from so impairing the incentive to create costly news-gathering operations that news services like Reuters and the Associated Press would become the only professional, nongovernmental sources of news and opinion.

"Not only did we get some great enthusiastic reactions on Twitter from the people we got in contact with, but we got great coverage in the blogosphere, with 60 blogs in five languages linking to the microsite, and at least another 24 discussing the stunt with Dunlop branding associated - amongst them blogs such as Gizmodo who had initially reported the leak were more than happy to set the record straight, strengthening the Dunlop brand association. And it wasn’t just about the sentiment - the total reach of the blogs involved was 8m unique users/month and 420k RSS subscribers, far outstripping the reach of the initial misinformed coverage from the leak - and almost all of the coverage was positive to boot."

"2morro 09 will be the biggest ever festival in the UK for young people interested in changing the world and getting heard. Learn how to use technology and media to run your campaigns better, showcase and share your plans for a better future, and join us for a packed day where you can debate, explore and celebrate new possibilities."

"2morro 09 will be the biggest ever festival in the UK for young people interested in changing the world and getting heard. Learn how to use technology and media to run your campaigns better, showcase and share your plans for a better future, and join us for a packed day where you can debate, explore and celebrate new possibilities."

Huffington Post crowdsources information on low wages...

In light of the explosion of citizen journalism in Iran, Jeremy Paxman asks Arianna Huffington of the Huffington Post and Anne McElvoy of the Evening Standard if internet journalism has come of age. Story Tools

Paul Bradshaw argues that using twitter, rather than RSS, is the way forward for newspapers...

America’s top CEOs appear to be mostly absent from the social media community, according to an analysis by UberCEO, which discovered that only two of 2009’s Fortune-100 CEOs have Twitter accounts, none have personal blogs, 13 have LinkedIn profiles and only 19 have a personal Facebook page.

The Frontline Club, the London-based media club that combines 'eating, drinking and thinking' has recently re-vamped its site and gone for a brand new look. Journalism.co.uk asked Graham Holliday, Frontline Club digital media editor, to tell us more.

NPR tries to use flickr notes to crowdsource the names of lobbyists appearing in a photo taken at a senate session...

First Light Movies funds and inspires young people, throughout the UK, to make films reflecting the diversity of their lives.

Social banking, an emerging banking distribution model, has the potential to displace banks from the center of customers' financial services relationships. The growth of social networking and the emergence of social-banking models will drive fundamental change in the ways that consumers manage their financial lives.

nature set to reclaim half finished, and now abandoned, developments in Florida...

"A heaving, undifferentiated mass was once all the West witnessed of far-off revolutions, but now we have instant, unedited access to the faces in the crowd – a richly-detailed range of defiance, fear, excitement and rage written across the features of those determined to have their stories heard. It is doubtful the world has ever seen such widely-communicated public protests, or history documented from so many angles so quickly. "

News and social sites overwhelmed by massive traffic spikes as word of Michael Jackon's death spreads

These blogs are written by a whole host of different people working in a variety of jobs from some of the most inaccessible and difficult places there are. They provide a unique insight into the lives of the people who are on the frontline of MSF's life-saving work.

Like getsatisfaction.com

A Romanian teenager was electrocuted to death in her bathtub while using the social networking site Twitter, the Croatian Times reports. Maria Barbu, 17, is believed by police to have lost too much battery power while using her laptop computer during an extended bath and was electrocuted when she tried to plug it back in to the wall socket, according to the Times report.

Disclosure will include "line-by-line" expenses for executive directors for the past five years and the names of the top 50 highest earners in BBC management "along with their salaries published in £30,000 brackets".

Barratt, who uses the name Kane Reilly on Facebook, appears to have updated the site with photos and comments about life in prison.

"Joe and I showed off some news applications we love, and that we hope will inspire the journalists here to think about telling their stories in new ways online."

During May this year 55.9% of UK traffic from Twitter went to content-driven online media sites whereas only 9.5% of traffic went to retail. This difference is in stark contrast to traffic from Google UK, which was much more evenly distributed among different types of site.