Bloggers from Shiny Media’s Catwalk Queen were interviewed for Panorama’s Primark story, but weren’t credited. Instead, videos were credited to YouTube.

Robin Hamman: "I can finally announce here that next Friday (27 June) I’m leaving the BBC to join Headshift where I’ll be leading an already established and expanding Social Media practice."

Derek Willis: "So much of journalism blogging is preaching to the choir that you get the sense that if rest of the industry just would get out of the way already, everything would be fine. Things are a more complex than that …"

Craig Oliver: "a new addition [to the BBC's election night coverage] is Emily Maitlis who’ll be sifting the chatter online with the help of some of the UK’s most committed political bloggers; Iain Dale, Luke Akehurst and Alix Mortimer."

Michael Arrington: "Someone needs to pony up a big round of financing around an existing blog, or perhaps a new entity, and then start rolling them up into a big fat CNET crushing $200 million/year in revenue business."

Simon Dickson: "I haven’t yet seen official confirmation, but I’m reliably informed that Tom Watson is the new minister for e-government, post-reshuffle. … Tom Watson was famously the first MP to start a blog, back in 2003."

Guido claims 305,624 unique visitors in November, says the Telegraph and Guardian have too many bloggers and asks whether the blogs run by Sky News and Mail Online are "commercially sensible". But Guido, the Graun and Indy claim to be profitable online…

"China’s muzzled press and burgeoning Internet have given citizen reporters an audience and an opportunity — however fleeting — to spread news quicker than government censors can control it."

David Leigh: "The Internet … it also degrades valuable principles — the idea of discrimination, that some voices are more credible than others, that a named source is better than an anonymous pamphleteer"

"Shameless list-porn" from Adrian Monck, based on Google Reader subscribers of UK journalism-related blogs. I’m number six apparently.

"Originally the proposed shield law gave a broad immunization to journalists, including bloggers who acted as journalists. But eventually it morphed into a far less protective form…"

Profile of blogger-journalist Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo

"Newspapers have a greater chance of surviving the 21st century if they embrace bloggers, rely more heavily on readers to provide news coverage and abolish subscriber fees for use of online archive material."