As newspapers weaken and die, most people probably become less informed about local affairs, but a few motivated folk grow extremely knowledgeable. Ms Price will miss the Bedworth Echo, but not as a source of news. It was, she says, a useful way of getting the word out.

A Chicago lettings agency is suing a former tenant for at least $50,000 (£30,000) after she complained on Twitter about mould in her apartment.

Perhaps RoboCop “writers” building information aggregators will be all that’s left in media’s post-apocalyptic future.

"Just as Ham Radio, Desktop Publishing and Blogging all promised the rise of the Amateur, only to see it replaced over time by the Pro-Am and then the Pro, we suspect this too will disappoint."

Fascinating interview with Malone. A must for anyone interested in the financial situation of the media industry (if you can put up with ads).
"The Internet side of it is going to have to have some consolidator. It doesn't mean you own everything, it just means somebody is going to be the intermediary to authenticate, provide security and provide collection… I think cable is probably in as good a position as anybody to be the consoildator of that functionality."

Photographers react to an amateur's photo being bought by Time for $30 and used on the magazine's front cover.

"Frankly, if all the news organizations locked pinkies, and said we're all going to put up a big fat pay wall, you know what, more traffic for us. News is a commodity; I'm sorry to say."

As of now the site pulls in about 8,000 unique visitors a month and enough paid subscribers to keep it in the black

"It's really simple. You stick in your location, and we tell you stuff that's near it."

"…the EU is prepared to "suspend trade benefits granted to the U.S." if its domestic Copyright Act is not updated to fit World Trade Organisation rules."

"The copying and reproduction of just 11 words of a news article can be copyright infringement, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled."

"Ortiz is showing that people are interested in serious news on the Web, especially if it A) impacts their lives, B) is timely and C) provides a great community."

"Microsoft’s news and entertainment portal MSN wants to add UK regional newspaper content to its MSN Local site, integrating papers’ feeds with with its postcode-searchable map."

"Just as brands conduct audits of inventory, employees, and budgets on an often annual basis, they should also survey the landscape to find out what customers, influencers, partners and employees are participating on the social web."

"It will give pre-pay customers unlimited access to tracks from Universal Music's extensive catalogue and let them play them on any mobile phone."

"We have consistently argued that content dumping by a publicly-funded broadcaster distorts the market and undermines the investment in video by commercial providers, such as the Press Association," said a PA spokeswoman.

"Teens trying to hash out (sub)cultural identities today have message boards, fan sites, and YouTube diaries to turn to, not to mention Facebook groups and musicians' MySpace pages. And that's perhaps the greatest crisis facing music magazines: They're being phased out, to a significant degree, by social-networking media, too."

"As time goes by, a bacterial computer will actually increase in power as the bacteria reproduce."