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"If people in journalism think colleges would benefit from their experience, maybe they should offer some time to help develop the journalists of tomorrow – to give back some of the time and effort that was no doubt invested in them…After all, it's better to light a candle than curse the darkness."

I do not underestimate the tests before us. We may never become true digital natives, but we can and must begin to assimilate to their culture and way of thinking. It is a monumental, once-in-a-generation opportunity, but it is also an exciting one, because if we’re successful, our industry has the potential to reshape itself, and to be healthier than ever before.

Researchers at Cern, home of the Large Hadron Collider, have held 38 antihydrogen atoms in place, each for a fraction of a second.

I think mobile is about where web journalism was in maybe 1996-97. So we’re trying to keep in mind that the medium is still quite primitive and that we want to come up with some genuinely new, innovative uses of it.

Who's Lobbying makes it simple for you to find information on lobbying activity in the UK.

The Civil Beat seems to be making its biggest bet on reader engagement, not just as a method of outreach, but also as content for the site. The debates between readers, ranging from education reform to a proposed Honolulu rail project are filled with long, thoughtful posts, often citing links for background. In turn, Civil Beat staff will invite members to write blog posts spun off from discussions or on other topical issues. “Obviously, the core content is the journalism that we produce, but the comments and the discussion create a whole other level of content,” Temple said.

No one ever came back to ask if the content that got published actually met the user’s needs. Someone defined a requirement that — in essence — said “have a navigation category for hearing aids.” It didn’t say “ensure that our hearing impaired customers can determine which product will best meet their needs.”

Formulists is a list creation and management tool that allows users to effortlessly generate dynamic and personalized Twitter lists that continuously self-update. Formulists-generated lists can be viewed or deleted from any Twitter client and will continue to self-update without the need to return to the Formulists website.

Search beyond Twitter’s history

Dragontape is a collaborative webservice that lets you create 3-hour mixtapes of your favorite YouTube videos. Mixtapes are easy to use, simple to share with friends, and let you focus on having a good time watching videos.

"Those who do digital / new jobs in traditional businesses [by which I mean anything that existed before 1990], know exactly what this quote means.

They know how impossible it can be to make even the smartest and simplest of ideas happen within an organisation that just doesn’t want it to happen.

Similarly, those who sit on the sidelines: analysts, journalists, bloggers and other commentators can offer clear cut advice and wisdom about what business x or y should do – without ever having to actually do it. Everything always seems so much simpler on the outside."

If two (or possibly more) of your friends write about or share an article featuring the same celebrity, for instance, both of your friends’ updates are collected into a single post on the news feed. The post tells you that both friends “mentioned” that celebrity, links to that celebrity’s Page on Facebook, and shows your friends’ respective updates underneath.

The Monaco Media Forum isn’t exactly Fight Club but James Murdoch, News Corp (NSDQ: NWS) CEO for Europe and Asia, has a first rule: “First rule—if you are going to monetize something, you probably should not give it away for free.”

It’s notable that Google are explicitly positioning Refine in their video as a “data journalism” tool.

A lot of the job was figuring out what reporters and editors wanted to do and figuring out how to enable that with the technology we had and with the resources we had.

Washington Post's guide to using Intersect

Part blogging tool, part social network, Intersect lets users tell stories as they are pegged to a certain time and place in a way that would eventually create a timeline for each user. But pulling back wider, Intersect will allow communities to share a more complete narrative of certain events.

"The companies that come after Demand, with refined algorithms and better search data and content, will suck advertising from news outlets. Market forces will sever the link between advertising and news that, for more than a century, gave us jobs and the resources to do them well."