Rebekah Brook's resignation from her post as News International Chief topped headlines today. The Guardian posted her resignation letter, where she said her desire to remain part of the company has made her the focal point of the debate and is "detracting attention from our honest endeavours to fix the problems."

A college journalist created SoundNote, an iPad app for recording interviews. Poynter interviewed David Estes, the student behind the invention. The app allows interviewers to sync their notes to the auditory recording. Later, they can search for a word and then listen to that point in the interview.

Google+ users top 10 million, reported ReadWriteWeb. Google CEO Larry Page announced that 1 billion items a day are being shared on the new social network and Google's gross revenue surpassed investor expectations.

Ken Doctor debunks the "myths of Murdoch". On his blog, he explains why the NoW scandal will not be Murdoch's demise and why the tabloid's closure will eventually have an impact on U.S. operations.

Owni.eu has conceived the Old Media and New Media distinction in a new way: an ecosystem. The extended metaphor categorizes information consumption into a food web. It shows that no media organisation is uniquely a producer or consumer of information, but participates in both to flourish.

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