Scott Karp: "If publishers want to maximize value on the web, they have to put the web first every time — that means you can’t just take what you create for print and dump it on the web, regardless of the cost efficiencies, because you’re destroying

"Data centres consumed 0.6% of the world’s electricity in 2000, and 1% in 2005. Globally, they are already responsible for more carbon-dioxide emissions per year than Argentina or the Netherlands".

"Consultants McKinsey have issued a report warning that data centres could, by 2012-13 overtake aviation as a cause of greenhouse emissions…"

"Can you imagine a content economy five or ten years from now that supports 2,000 versions of the same story? Is it any surprise that the company that creates far and away the most economic value on the web produces NO ORIGINAL CONTENT?"

"As energy prices soar, and governments and organisations start to sweat over their carbon footprint, the energy consumption of the internet is coming under scrutiny."

"What can you do if a patient conducts a scurrilous campaign [against a doctor] on the Internet, calling into question your skills as a doctor? Barristers Michael Salter and Chris Bryden advise."

Reporters Without Borders accused the UNESCO of yielding to pressure from some of the 15 member countries on [its list of "Internet Enemies"] by dropping its backing for the event.

"Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are … digitally effusive teenage girls."

"Two Oakland Tribune Web producers have won acclaim for their interactive community project, ‘Not Just A Number.’"

Tim Luckhurst: "The internet is fantastic. My students will learn to use it for audio, visual and text-based reporting. But I am convinced the convenience of printed pages makes them too useful to kill."

"A British court ruling barring the naming of a minor royal involved in an alleged sex-and-drugs blackmail plot is being widely ignored on the internet, demonstrating the waning power of strict UK gagging orders in the information age."

"The alleged royal blackmail case has exposed the difficulties the law faces in controlling the dissemination of information in a world where the media operates round the globe 24-7."

FAZ publisher Frank Schirrmacher’s full speech on the negative impact of the internet on "Qualitätsjournalismus". The time delay involved in print as a virtue. etc etc. Yawn.

Here we go again. The Internet threatens not only the souls of children, but also quality journalism, says Frank Schirrmacher, publisher of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. Spiegel Online’s Christian Stöcker responds.