"Developers at the BBC and Reuters have picked up on the potential for this. They are working on applications to monitor Twitter … and other social-media services - Flickr, YouTube, Facebook - for news catchwords such as ‘earthquake’ and ‘evacuation’."

"The MoD warns that "more discipline" and "greater enforcement" of military conduct rules is necessary to tackle "the publishing of unauthorised content on unofficial channels . . ." [like YouTube and social networking sites]."

It’s not just Facebook that can come back to haunt you later. YouTube does the trick too: "A teacher who starred in a raunchy Internet advert has been suspended from her job at a top private school."

"The most recent–and seemingly unlikely–election coverage team is CBS News and Digg, … Under the partnership, political stories from Digg will appear in a box on the politics section of CBSNews.com."

Five things reporters can do to help grow newspaper.com traffic: start a blog, join social networks, use social bookmarking tools, use Digg etc, make YouTube videos…

"A six-minute film captured under fire by Royal Marine Commando Jonny Hart, from Hindley, and colleagues has been posted on Youtube without the Wiganer even knowing about it."

Et tu, Ben Bradlee? Matt Frei: "We from the old media soldier on, clutching our Zimmerframes. As Ben Bradlee, the legendary former editor of the Washington Post put it: ‘You want citizen journalists? How about citizen surgeons?’"

BBC Scotland’s Mark Coyle on the ethical dilemna about linking to illegal content, such as the camera phone footage taken during a case at the High Court in Glasgow.

Google ’could do a better job’ at preventing illegally copied video from appearing on its YouTube site, Peter Chernin, president and chief operating officer of News Corp, said in a video interview with the Financial Times.

"Footage capturing the last, terrible seconds of Kenji Nagai’s life has been aired on Japanese television – horrifying a nation and raising official suspicion that the 50-year old photo-journalist was murdered by Burmese troops."

"There are currently 25 videos uploaded to the New Yorker’s YouTube account"

"News Corporation and NBC Universal will begin testing in October for their rival video website to YouTube, dubbed Hulu, but the date of the site’s formal launch remains unknown."

Scott Karp: "The inclusion of videos on Google News pages — which can be played via YouTube embeds right on the page, without leaving Google News — can be a valuable distribution channel for video content producers."