Simon Dickson: "A couple of additions seem worth mentioning: a box for ‘REACTION FROM AROUND THE WEB’ (ie blogs) on the homepage, plus feeds from del.icio.us and Twitter accounts; and the rather odd spectacle of Sarah Montague’s video review"

Steve Balmer: "there will be no media consumption left in 10 years that is not delivered over an IP network. There will be no newspapers, no magazines that are delivered in paper form."

"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’."

"Sites says the Hot Zone changed his way of thinking about covering the battlefield. He now believes war reporting should focus on collateral damage rather than combat."

"Birmingham Post features writer Jo Ind has started incorporating Del.icio.us social bookmarks into her articles. … phrasing the link as ’suggested links’ (rather than ‘iPM Delicious’) and positioning it at the bottom of an article rather than a

Does the world really need a mashup that generates Lolcats from Flickr and BBC News headlines? Probably not, but somone’s made one anyway. (HT: psmith)

"Yahoo! will now be indexing Semantic Web and Microformats markup from around the web and will use that information to display more structured search results."

"This site displays the Associated Press U.S. National, Sports, Business, Technology and "Strange" news stories on top of Google Maps. The city/state from each news story is translated to a latitude/longitude point [and] then plotted on the map."

"An hour after Susan Mernit was laid off on Feb. 12 from Yahoo … she posted a note to her blog, updated her Facebook status, and added a tweet to her twitter stream. Six hours later Mernit had received more than 100 responses, including … job leads."

How apt.

Some good advice from Martin Belam on how to integrate your social bookmarking and your blogging.

"AT&T Inc., News Corp. (owner of Dow Jones & Co., publisher of The Wall Street Journal) and Time Warner Inc. — all considered candidates to do such a deal — aren’t preparing rival bids for Yahoo, according to people familiar with the matter."

"a spokesman for the News Corporation said Sunday night that it was not preparing a bid, and other frequently named prospective suitors like Time Warner, AT&T and Comcast have not begun work on offers, people close to them said."

Scott Karp: "The main problem with Microsoft and Yahoo, looking forward, is that they are not web-native companies — they rely on centralized control models, rather than distributed network models"