Dave Lee quotes the Sky News Online induction pack: “Your stories appear on the web thanks to HTML, the computer language. Fortunately you need to know very little about how it works.”

"Guardian News & Media is looking to enroll all 800 of its staff journalists on a voluntary ‘digital awareness programme’ ahead of the publisher’s move to a new 24/7 integrated newsroom this autumn."

"I know not all college journalism departments have the faculty to teach [online] skills. There are many opportunities to gain this experience … This includes my favorites: the University of Barnes and Noble and it’s sister school Amazon State."

"But there are fewer really good journalists in this world than there are skilled users of blog software, which is why we’ve got to welcome the good journalists into the new world - and pave their way as well as possible …"

Whoa: "I’m urging employers not to offer any training in Web journalism. There are two reasons for this…You cannot train someone to be part of a culture [and] We cannot move backward to round up the stragglers and train them to fight. "

"any journalist who hasn’t made the effort to keep up with the real world isn’t worth keeping on board. We don’t have the ergs to spare on those who need to be carried. We need self-propelled journalists who are lifelong learners."

"After attending one of my workshops recently, a veteran reporter and columnist confessed in an email: "I feel like a stegosaurus in need of online training and am not sure where to start."

Paul Conley has prepared a great list of essential resources for teaching yourself journalism skills online.