Sarah Hartley

empleton told Mashable that a big part of the problem he sees is with the unused hammer, lawnmower or shovel simply collecting dust in the shed. Most tools only get used for a few minutes per year; why not make it easier to share or lend those items to neighbors? Why aren’t neighbors sharing and lending their stuff more often?

There is now talk of similar events in the North of England and Derbyshire.

How does it work?

There’s three topics of about 30 minutes, a ban on powerpoint and space for questions and debate.

I’m increasingly struck how this happy accident with milk and one sugar has something more to offer than just a post-work chance to eat Victoria Sponge.

Twitter doesn’t replace any other form of media or journalism, any more than YouTube replaces television, or Facebook replaces the need for normal human interaction. Twitter is just a tool, like the telephone or the video camera — it doesn’t replace the need for traditional journalists. It may make their jobs slightly different, but we still need people to curate and make sense of that stream. If anything, in fact, we need *more* of them, whether we call them journalists or not, as the amount of information we are trying to consume continues to increase.

As managing director of Trinity Mirror Regionals, which acquired MEN Media last year, she has had a hands-on role steering newspapers through turbulent times caused by structural shifts within the sector and the uncertainty of a weak economy.

The event will focus on the core strengths of the regional press and how it is now reaching bigger audiences than ever across its print and online platforms.

Hey all, at Local Government Group we’re trying to redo the guidance for councillors on social media.

The library is one year into its plan to digitise 40m news pages from its vast 750m collection, housed in Colindale, north London. This autumn, the library will reinvent its cavernous vaults as a website, where amateur genealogists and eager historians will be able to browse 19th-century newsprint from their home computer.

It will be a little time till my synapses form the links I need to fully understand the connections made and the concepts and ideas discussed.

The world is changing and communication is no longer something that is owned by the journalist or media owners.

t scarcely matters any longer who actually breaks a story. It's the actions of the fast followers that matter. Successful hyperlocal sites that grab the story after it has been reported by more traditional media and generate responses to it from those close to the event win. Take a string of burglaries in a neighborhood. Reactions from Bob, who lives next to a house that was hit, and John, one of the victims, are more compelling and often more relevant than the actual headlines.

“We like to call it the local, mobile news desk,” founder and CEO Andy Leff told me in a phone interview. Users can “report, update and read local news as it’s happening from their phones.”

It won’t be on the Guardian’s website (unless some sort of miracle happens) but it’s something worthwhile that needs to be continued. And hopefully, when the Alternative Media in Leeds project knows what it wants to do, there’ll be a place for the daily roundup posts there as well.

Little calls this the “human algorithm,” and I think it’s a necessary step in the future of journalism and media. If anyone can report, and anyone can function as a journalist, then we need everyone to be able to help confirm and verify reports like the ones Andy and the BBC are getting. That’s not something a single person or even a group of editors at a specific outlet can do in real-time.

One example: Patients like me. It's a site where people are sharing response to treatments for 500 different conditions. In particular, for one condition called ALS, there was a belief that lithium could delay the onset of some symptoms. So some of them took lithium treatments, and some didn't. And they found that it didn't work – not even a placebo effect.

For the first hack day, we had prepared a Linked Data site called LinkedManchester with the Transport for Greater Manchester bus timetable data from DataGM. In the week leading up to the event, Bill wrote an (almost) daily diary of how we went about producing the linked bus data: day1, day2, day3, days4-6.

“I think we are seeing entirely new forms of ‘journalism’ emerging in this space that is less conflict-driven, less about the scorecard.”

The Government is embarking on a wide-ranging review of the regulatory regime for the UK communications sector, to ensure the regulatory framework in place is fit for the digital age. Our ambition is to establish UK communications and media markets as amongst the most dynamic and successful in the world, with the review process culminating in a new communications framework by 2015, to support the sector for the next 10 years and beyond. To help realise this ambition, we would like to begin the review by opening a dialogue with all those interested in the issues involved, and gather views on some specific questions posed in this letter.

"It was the only full story available of the incident for 3 hours, until Sky News put it as their "breaking" news, followed by the BBC. By this time, everyone discussing the story on Twitter (was) linking to our story, as the main source."

Was the point of the ‘digital revolution’ to throw off the shackles of the printed oppressors and somehow move to an open, accessible platform, a complete free-for-all in the opinion stakes? Or was it to provide quality journalism that didn’t come with all the bollocks that print media has: like sponsorship, advertorial, bigotry, high running costs and censorship? Has it even done that?