"Beijing’s Gehua New Century Hotel, site of the official non-accredited media center for the Beijing Olympics in August, has rescinded its offer to pay journalists as much as 1000 yuan ($145) for positive stories."

"While direct income from [Iain Dale's] blog has been modest – ads provided by Google Ads and Message Space earn Dale about £7,000 a year – its value in promoting his “brand” has been huge."

"The thing the unites all the ’sports’ that you read in the papers? Two things - they have a schedule: they’re regular, so newspapers can plan themselves around them; and they have spectators. … If a ’sport’ doesn’t have a diary, then it can’t be

"Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times h

"A study of blogs and audience engagement during the week before the fall 2006 elections found that most newspaper staff-produced blogs contained a small number of postings, failed to create much interaction between the blogger and the audience and attrac

"[Y[ounger voters tend to be not just consumers of news …but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news … they are replacing the pr

"America’s intelligence agencies prepare to launch “A-Space”, an internal communications tool modelled on the popular social networking sites, Facebook and MySpace."

"BLEWS uses political blogs to categorize news stories according to their reception in the conservative and liberal blogospheres. It visualizes information about which stories are linked to from conservative and liberal blogs, and it indicates the level o

Clarkson latest celebrity caught by the distributed mobile phone surveillance network.

"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]."

"Here on the west coast of America, where millions upon millions of dollars have been spent promoting Beckham as the superstar saviour of soccer, the decision to omit him from the England squad was recorded by a single paragraph in USA Today."

"There is an obvious conflict of interest when the person deciding on the disclosure of MPs’ expenses is himself receiving quite a substantial amount of this public money himself."