"I must confess that I felt them quite strongly. Communication is so much more intimate online. If people criticised me, or told me that it was drivel etc etc, I felt like I'd been slapped in the face."

“It is impossible to avoid the public anymore. I mean, it’s impossible to avoid listening to the public anymore…The question is what to do when you have to listen to the public. In my own experience, what you hear is not a whole lot that you would like to hear, especially if you have certain ideas about the role of journalism in society, and the importance of that for democracy, and the way the public feels. It’s a little bit depressing. But that is not going to go away because you’ve stopped listening to people.”

YOUR WHITE LABELED, UNLIMITED EVERYTHING, ASS-KICKING, SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING DASHBOARD…WITH A MONEY-BACK GUARANTEE!

Facebook has introduced a new form of budgeting for advertisers, which enables to control how ad spends will be managed over the life of a campaign rather than a daily budget.

It transcribes them for you using only speech-to-text technology (no humans), which allows it to offer the service for free (with ads at the bottom).

Twitter has unveiled another effort to make money from its micro-blogging service. With its latest advertising program, dubbed "Promoted Accounts," advertisers can pay the company to promote their Twitter accounts to certain users.

"On Monday Golf Digest will introduce Golf Digest on Demand, an ongoing golf-instruction series featuring young golf instructors that will cost $9.99 per month."

I do worry, though, that they've rather left themselves as hostages to fortune with this feature. It surely won't be long until we get the first blog posts saying 'I looked at all the user profiles of the people commenting on this thread about global warming, and I can PROVE that Reuters rejects 12% of comments by users who do not support the myth of man-made climate change, but only rejects 4% of postings by ecofascists.