"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’."

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)

Better picutres are being shown on the BBC, but a cameraphone picture appeared on Flickr at 13:16.

Ryan Sholin: "Any non-media business office worth a damn these days knows how to exchange documents, stay in contact online, promote themselves, and find out what everyone in town is saying about them."

Robin Hamman explains an experiment at BBC Leicester that is using a Flick group to pool photos of the local weather.

"Online photo-sharing community Flickr has rolled out two mapping features allowing users to find photos based on geographic places in a bid to give the site local appeal."

Creative Commons Corp was also named in the suit over the Australian mobile firm’s use of a Flickr picture in an advertisement.

"A teenage photographer is suing a US porn film company for damages after it used a photo of her aged 14 on the front cover of one of its DVDs."

More on the BBC Mundo multi-media, social media reporting triip across the United States.

"Apparently some way-into-web 2.0 dude live twittered during the birth of his child and then posted the pictures to Flickr." Why?

Jose Baig and Carlos Ceresole are using a blog, Flickr, Facebook, Skype to report across the Spanish-speaking US for BBC Mundo

Ryan Sholin explains how he covered a local running race using video, Flickr, Twitter and a "a breaking news tumblelog".

Why should Google buy Yahoo? With the exception of search, Yahoo’s strengths map to Google’s weaknesses, almost precisely.