Image via CrunchBase The annual list of 100 essential websites from The Guardian indicates how the web has matured.  The list is dominated by web services rather than web sites, reflecting how the internet has shifted from a platform for consumption to one for collaboration. The darling of 2009, Twitter, even gets its own mini-section, and includes services such as Twitter Tim.es, which creates your personal new site based on

Image via Wikipedia Much of the discussion at the AEJMC annual conference has focused on user-generated content (UGC) and how journalists should adapt to this changing environment. Jane Singer from the University of Central Lancashire is one of the leading researchers in this area.  She talked about how online created a shared space, whereas print was largely a space controlled by journalists. Her most recent research looked at the attitudes

Everybody loves online quizzes. Click a few buttons, hit return and get your answers. Unless, that is, you are doing a quiz on The Guardian. It has an enticing quiz entitled “Test your geek credentials“. However, the quiz is a disappointment, not because of the content but because it is a static, traditional newspaper quiz, cut and pasted onto a web page. No clicking of answers here. Instead you have