Every week there's a new claim from one of Britain's newspapers that theirs is now the most popular website among UK users.

The Guardian was up there for a while, the Telegraph claimed it, and now the Mail.

I suppose when the former White House press secretary wants to write a piece for your newspaper you don't refuse if you know your business.

Nonetheless i can't really understand why the Washington Post are running this article, from Ari Fleischer.

The Daily Telegraph reported yesterday that bloggers are in favour of a universal code of conduct being drawn up to govern conduct online.
It's a measure that comes too late in my opinion, for the unofficial rules have already been written: there are none.

Transitions Online is a cracking site devoted to 28 post-Communist countries.

It is perhaps fitting that the last article i wrote for this website was about the relative security of the print format.

Sadly, due to the complacency of John Sweeney, one of Britain's most talented tv reporters who spent weeks of investigations into the Scientology "church" the BBC has gained worldwide attention but not much admiration for an exciting and committed story. Sweeney's programme called "Me and Scientology" was aired by BBC Panorama on 14 May and it is available online. 

As the story broke last night that Portuguese police were searching a house in connection with the disappearance of British toddle Madeleine McCann, i got a taste of how the rapidity of the news media

By Richard Sambrook, Director of the BBC's Global News Services

There are some journalists who love nothing more than to quote the statistic that theirs is one of the least trusted professions.

By Tessa Mayes, journalist and author, London, UK In the celebrity royal kingdom of Great Britain that my country has now become, we’ve had a media speculation fest exploring the reasons why Prince William and Kate Middleton, his former girlfriend, split up.   Did they meet too young? Was she too middle class for him? Was her mother too middle class for him? Did his friends make jokes about her mother’s former job as an airline stewardess?

Why do many journalists condemn User Generated Content (UGC) as totally useless and poor without realising that they often produce something worse? Journalists tend to think that UGC is complacent, unprofessional and it lacks objectivity. At the same time, they foster their own version of UGC: Journalist Generated Content. Let's call it JGC. It is full of complacency and ignorance, too. Moreover, it is a form of self-delusion.

Doomsayers and fearmongers beware: newspapers may not pass away as quickly as some thought, death may have been put off till doomsday - apparently there's still readers out there...

A week on, and the fuss over the proposed Bloggers’ Code of Conduct seems to have died down.

At the recent British Press Awards 2007, the editor of a British national daily newspaper was heard to say ‘I’ve never met anyone who listens to f**king podcasts