Flowtown published an infographic on Women in Social Media. It takes a look at what sites women are using, as well as how much and why women are participating in social media.

On 7-8 June a conference at the University of Westminster's department of journalism, in company with the British Journalism Review (BJR) will discuss the age-old - but always pressing - question: what makes good journalism, reported Guardian's Roy Greenslade.

In an email today to publishers Google told partners in its News Archive project - which was Google's attempt to do for old newspapers what Google Books has been attempting to do for the world's libraries - that it would cease accepting, scanning, and indexing microfilm and other archival material from newspapers, reported the Boston Phoenix. It will focus its energies instead on newer projects that help the industry, such as Google One Pass.

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