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"Journalists deserve low pay". That is the incendiary assertion by Robert Picard, professor of media economics at Sweden's Jonkoping University, made at a lecture at Oxford. The statement is bound to get the hackles of journalists everywhere up, but reading the argument carefully he makes…

In a thought-provoking blog post Robert Scoble, once the famed "Microsoft blogger" and now working on a new project for Rackspace called Building 43, tries to look forward to what the web will be like next year. He says he has some thoughts on its…

Tim O'Reilly writes persuasively about the virtues of allowing people to follow you without you being required to follow them back. He calls this "asymmetric follow" or "Twitter-mode". This ability is one of the key advantages that Twitter has over other networks like Facebook and…

The blog Xark has come up with a list of reasons that comments don't work on newspaper sites (for which you can also read "magazine community sites") and some suggestions on how to fix the problem. The main reason for failure is lack of engagement/understanding…

It's Sergey Brin's turn to write the annual Google Founders Letter, a traditional part of Google's annual report. If you have some spare time it makes a great read, reflecting on the past decade and looking forward to some of the developments which Google believes…