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The journalist in me has been avoiding this post (too navel-gazing, too self-absorbed), but the blogger in me can't help it. Media is changing-how it is produced and how it is consumed. The worlds of blogging and journalism are colliding and I want to get some thoughts down on this transition before I forget what the old world was like or feel too comfortable in the new one.

Press freedom: Instead of journalism by experts, we now prefer self-expression and the democratised interactivity of blogs and wikis

If you are a photographer with high-quality images posted on Yahoo's Flickr service, you may soon get an e-mail inviting you to become a paid contributor to Getty Images, the world's largest distributor of pictures and video.

The New York Times has certainly embraced blogging, but it was striking to see in this post from The Lede just how much they've embraced link journalism:

How many more years will we have to watch foreign correspondents parachute into a region and pretend they know what's going on? How many more reports coming out of the Middle East from hotel rooftops will be delivered by people who do not speak Arabic, or know what "the Green zone" in Iraq was called before coalition forces arrived?

More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them? Darren Levin reports.

More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them? Darren Levin reports.

More people are tuning into what bloggers have to say, but should we trust them? Darren Levin reports.

But while Google is an unusual company in many ways, when you boil down its business strategy, you find that it's not quite as mysterious as it seems. The way Google makes money is straightforward: It brokers and publishes advertisements through digital media.

Google is motivated by something much larger than its congenital hatred of Microsoft. It knows that its future, both as a business and as an idea (and Google's always been both), hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the usefulness of the Internet, which in turn hinges on the continued rapid expansion of the capabilities of web apps, which in turn hinges on rapid improvements in the workings of web browsers.

The problem with the AP isn't really about linking, it's about quoting. And the problem with quoting is that, now that anyone can publish any thought or idea on the web, and anyone can link to it or reproduce it, the whole notion of quoting and citation has been completely turned on its head.

Journalists are being tarnished by the activities of professional privacy invaders - Brian Cathcart dissects News of the World phone hacking scandal, plus examines the case of public interest v intrusion