"Chi has identified one model that Wikipedia's growth pattern matches. "In my experience, the only thing we've seen these growth patterns [in] before is in population growth studies – where there's some sort of resource constraint that results in this model." The site, he suggests, is becoming like a community where resources have started to run out. "As you run out of food, people start competing for that food, and that results in a slowdown in population growth and means that the stronger, more well-adapted part of the population starts to have more power.""

"As news organization try to figure out new business plans, they can’t afford not to give more attention to the estimated 149.1 million American women (or more than 3 billion worldwide). News organizations really cannot wait until they figure out how to make money before they woo women readers — because by then, many of them will be lost to the blogosphere."

"The saga has certainly proved disastrous for Dawson Holdings. Since the bulks story emerged in public it has all but exited the newspaper and distribution market."

"One change in particular is that a whopping £10 saving will in future be possible when paying application or search fees on a patent application, if filing electronically."

"Very few technologies (if any) have 2 year hype-to-mass-adoption curves, we all know that, yet time and again people let themselves be persuaded that this time, it will be different."

"I’m not an IP lawyer or even music copyright lawyer (yet), but I’d certainly thought things through enough that when I made a recording of my own music a few years ago I got an assignment signed by the session musicians I’d used (who’d been paid a fee for their services)."

"Personally, I consider that forcing or bullying people into disclosing their user / password details in order to access personal accounts is a step too far in the privacy invasion stakes. I await the outcome of the cheerleader's resulting claims against the school with interest."

"What has tended to happen in journalism schools, from what I can gather, is that teachers teach students about what it was like in the past when newspapers defined news, instruct students on how to write like it was back then, and then try to bring students up to speed on the complexities of the current situation."

"I figured that a frequent health care user as smart as Stephen Hawking would probably have an opinion on the subject of "Death Panel" medicine, so I went on his Web site and sent him an e-mail asking him about it. "

The model cannot predict whether a piece of content will go viral before it has been released; only its likely reach once it starts spreading. And the researchers think their approach to modelling should apply to information spreading via social networking sites and other online services as well as email.

"In this regard a couple of reports on enterprise and social networking / Web 2.0 are of interest."

"We're putting together a map of UK blogs. Add yourself – or a blog you know."

Nine staff have been sacked from their local authority jobs for snooping on personal records of celebrities and personal acquaintances held on the core database of the government's National Identity Scheme.

"…the result is wrong – people just don't use web sites in the way that the majority of their Lordships seem to think they do. Who's going to go through all the pages of a site carefully, really? Or realise that there's additional vital info that's not on the site?"

"All things considered though, the Mail's new comment moderation policy is an excellent idea. It doesn't mean no moderation at all, so any legal issues are likely to be dealt with pretty quickly, and the overall effect should be to make the website stickier."

"Mail Online is following Express Newspapers’ lead, which stopped moderating on its Daily Express and Daily Star sites over two years ago and relies on users to flag problems."

"But to be secure a media operation must entice an audience to enjoy what the web cannot supplant, a paid-for exclusivity and an opportunity for a unique participative experience."

"People are prepared to pay for online content when they get value from it. This might be because they trust it (why else pay for Which? content when you can read reviews at TestFreaks or alaTest). Or it might be because it’s the only way they can access certain content."

"When we consider the technicalities of getting income from the consumer, the secret may not be HOW to get people to pay for news, it’s WHEN that counts."

"No – we are not contemplating a pay wall, nor as far as I’m concerned would we ever….they are a stupid idea in that they restrict audiences for largely replicable content. Murdoch no doubt will find this out – even rudimentary maths suggests he will struggle with a completely free model to meet advertising revenue levels across the NI offerings."