Shane Richmond hits back at recent Guardian stories criticising MyTelegraph users’ views.

The Guardian has been taking an interest in My Telegraph, our reader blogging site, even phoning our readers to ask them about it. They asked us some questions, raising concerns about "bad" and "unsavoury" material on the site.

"The move to ONEsite is still a few weeks away but once the first phase is done we will shift our attention to new features. … The third phase of development for My Telegraph is intended to integrate the site more closely with Telegraph.co.uk."

MyTelegraph suffered a heavy spam attack last weekend. Martin Belam has the details.

The shortlist for the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2007. Trinity Mirror gets four nominations for the Evening Gazette in Teesside. MySun and MyTelegraph both nominated.

MyTelegraph after 8 weeks: "More than 4,500 people have signed up so far, though things have slowed down since the first couple of days when we were handling a new registration every three minutes."

The Telegraph will "use its ‘My Telegraph’ personalised news service as the foundation for a social networking platform around [the Rugby World Cup in September].

"[T]he first half of My Telegraph, community, was about bringing blogs to people who had never tried them before, so the second half, personalisation, is about bringing news feeds to novices."

"Others – specificially, The Sun and Express – have opened ‘personal’ areas within their sites, but both are underwhelming. ‘My Telegraph’ has clearly been put together by people who ‘get it’."

My Telegraph is live…

"Why would I choose to host my blog with the Telegraph? Why would I want to make that kind of direct association between my personal acts of self-expression and another piece of media … which comes with a whole lorryload of semantic and political baggag