Passionate about technology, media and chocolate eclairs, I've worked in web and print for over twenty years and now run a digital media consultancy in Scotland.
The Guardian has announced a plan to reveal its newslist before it researches and publishes its content.
This is a move that will send shudders down the spines of many a news editor, and could potentially backfire.
Asking the public for input before writing a story just seems like common sense - but will it work if journalists have to go against one of their firmly-held beliefs.
The newslist is the... 
In the real world, the Boston Globe is a hard-hitting broadsheet newspaper. It is the largest circulation title in New England and it has, for a long time, had a website that delivers content to an online audience.
Last week, it was itself in the news for redesigning its website. So what? Websites are being redesigned every day, that’s not a story I hear you say.
But what the Boston Globe has done... 
When a journalist takes the editor’s seat for the first time on a publication, his or her first editorial is an exciting piece to write. It will be the first opportunity to champion the changes that he or she believes in, and it will be the benchmark against which their journalistic aspirations are measured.
In his first week in the top job at The Drum, Gordon Young writes about how the internet is... 
My prediction for 2011.
Mobile web will become ubiquitous
I can retrace predictions back to 2000 that each successive year was going to be the ‘year of the mobile web’. Yet it has never been more than a glint in the eye of a few geeks. This year, it WILL happen.
How do I know this? Firstly, the mobile web could never have happened without capable devices. But just what is capable? I’ve... 
