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Wired has a story about a patent filed by Google which envisages handsets which automatically poll wireless providers (including wi-fi and wi-max) for the lowest price before connecting. There's a long way to go, and a lot of vested interests in the way, but it's…

Jeff Javis writes a thoughtful post responding to the blanket criticism of "citizen journalists" following the false story of Steve Jobs' "heart attack" on CNN's iReport. The main problem isn't with citizen journalism, he says, but with credulous readers (and that isn't a new problem).

With t&e budgets likely to be slashed around the world next year some enterprising bloggers have come up with a novel idea: free conferences on the web. They have collected (curated if you like) what they consider to be the best free presentations around a…

The building block of journalism is no longer the article; so says Jeff Jarvis in a post which argues that the web needs a new paradigm. The story was all we had before — it’s what would fit onto a newspaper page or into a…

I was making a presentation to the news team at Estates Gazette on Friday and as part of the story I pulled off a series of traffic graphs from Alexa to show the relative share of voice of traditional newspapers (The Guadian and New York…