In a presentaion given as part of a job interview, Joanna Geary notes that according to Ofcom, two-thirds of people in Birmingham use mobiles to access the Internet and that this representes a huge, untapped market for regional papers.

"No sustainable business model" for CBS transparency blog.

Ben Hammersley: "[W]hile there’s more news available to you, you’re much less likely to know how it was made. … I think it’s easier, and more productive in the end, to do what my maths teacher was always forlornly begging me to do, and show my working."

Richard Sambrook: "[Ben] Hammersley explains on YouTube what to expect from his new experimental assignment with the BBC. Lots of content, lots of platforms, sites and formats (not just BBC) and lots of transparency."

"It’s probably fair for the University of Maryland to put Sky News bottom of its rankings of ‘openness and accountability (among) 25 of the world’s top news sites’."

"By providing free consulting and some software, Google Inc. is helping state governments make reams of public records that are now unavailable or hard to find online easily accessible to Web surfers." UK next, please!

Ben Fenton on the Telegraph bloggers’ open house: "In almost 20 years as a Fleet Street reporter, I have never previously met Telegraph consumers except on an ad hoc, coincidental basis and now I realise what I have been missing."

The Telegraph’s Shane Richmond responds to a question about how blogging changes the way journalists relate to their audience