"What’s Social Journalism? It’s what you do when you gather information in social media channels and then report it to your readers."

"The 90s and 00s have been full of companies churning out the same old lame, toxic junk and trying to sell it in new ways — instead of detoxifying it."

"Newspapers strive for circulation, by telling the same stories in the same ways — in slightly different places. Nichepapers strive for scarcity: to develop a perspective, analytical skills, and storytelling capabilities that are inimitable by rivals."

"Journalists at Trinity Mirror's Birmingham-based newspapers have called off strike action after the company agreed to make no compulsory redundancies at the titles."

"It’s time to take news to the next level, to a form that not only informs and educates, but also has strong replay value."

The NYTimes.com has opened up a self-serve ad system for businesses who want to advertise on its hyperlocal sites.

Both had resolutions that might not have made traditional media, but were important to the users and, for me, resulted in the sort of engagement you want from media

"My view is that winners in the Internet era of news journalism will be the people and companies who, like Cheezburger, ReadWriteWeb and Amazon, develop systematic ways of filtering the flood of user-generated content and sources down to those with the best content."

"It's too quiet. We're losing readers. Someone write a wrongheaded article about Twitter."

"sites, services and software that could be used for hacking without programming knowledge as a pre-requisite"

"National newspapers have a total of 1,068,898 followers across their 120 official Twitter accounts – with the Guardian, Times and FT the only three papers in the top 10."

""None of the traditional media conglomerates are also significant video game players, so to speak, and I think that that's the missing piece of the equation, particularly when you see how much time is spent playing games online," Miller said."

"Well guess what, if you're a not for profit, you still have to raise all the money that you're spending and then some, so you have a surplus when the economy goes off a cliff."

"Any media outlet serious about online conversations needs to show to commenters that they are serious – by engaging with them in a debate. Otherwise, commenting sections on news sites become a graveyard for the blurbs of self-obsessed people."

I've turned BIS's Twitter strategy into a generic template Twitter strategy for government Departments.