BBC News has a new social media editor, Chris Hamilton, who joined the BBC in 2000 and will also manage the existing user generated content hub within BBC Newswire, as Journalism.co.uk reported. Hamilton will succeed Alex Gubbay, who is leaving the BBC to join Johnston Press in June as head of digital content.

New Indian regulations restricting Web content provoked protesters within free speech advocates and Internet users. The New York Times reported that the new rules, quietly issued by the country's Department of Information Technology earlier this month and only now attracting attention, allow officials and private citizens to demand that Internet sites and service providers remove content they consider objectionable on the basis of a long list of criteria, which includes anything that "threatens the unity, integrity, defense, security or sovereignty of India, friendly relations with foreign states or public order."

The NIS News Bulletin reported on the unique social networking market in the Netherlands, given that - as Mike Read, managing director of comScore Europe, said - it is one of the few markets remaining where a local social networking player (Hyves) continues to lead Facebook, even if that lead is becoming increasingly tenuous. Despite Hyves' success in maintaining its leading position, the Netherlands ranks number one worldwide in penetration for Twitter and Linkedin.

As mainstream media in Mexico have agreed a set of common guidelines in reporting the on-going drug war that is wounding the country, Al Jazeera English reported that an an anonymous blogger is breaking gory stories, providing some gruesome and unedited images and publishing graphic details of spiraling violence.

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