“You come to expect the vitriol, the insults, the death threats,” Laurie Penny, a contributor to The Guardian, wrote in November. “After a while, the emails and tweets and comments containing graphic [rape] fantasies ... cease to be shocking, and become merely a daily or weekly annoyance, something to phone your girlfriends about, seeking safety in hollow laughter.”

The new blog provides the same hollow laughter: funny only because it’s so true, so relatable to female journalists who’ve become all too accustomed to regular sexist affronts. They’ve become numb to the “feeling of being hunted,” as New Statesman writer Helen Lewis-Hasteley called it in an interview with The Guardian.

In case you had missed it, media is changing.

But you already knew that. You also know that the domain of the traditional journalist is being encroached upon by citizen journalists and amateur bloggers.

What everybody wants to know is: where do we go from here? How does the professional press stay 'professional' when the Internet and mobile technologies allows anyone to become a journalist? Should it even try to?

It would be a glib interpretation of a complex situation to divide the debate in to two camps: those who fully espouse new media and those who view it with a slight air of suspicion, as a source of unreliable information and low quality material.

According to The National Post, it would seem that Quebec's culture minister, Christine St-Pierre, is a member of the latter group, if it exists. Her recent proposals for defining professional journalism state 'the Internet is not yet a source of "original information that respects the journalistic method."' Is it really reasonable to trust 'traditional media' simply because they are traditional? The News of The World was a long running publication, with over a century of journalistic history, but it hardly seemed to support St-Pierre and Payette's so-called 'journalistic method'.

Tumblr is on an impressive rise: Mashable reported that the blogging platform now hosts over twenty million blogs. Moreover, a huge increase has taken place in the last six months, as the amount of blogs on Tumblr has tripled since January, NPR reported. As a result, Tumblr now hosts more blogs than WordPress, another popular blogging site.

What makes this feat particularly impressive is Tumblr's age: it was founded only four years ago. WordPress, by comparison, in now eight years old, which means that it had a four-year head start in attracting bloggers.

An increasing portion of Tumblr users consists of media companies that use it to extend their web presence. From news organisations' point of view, the platform features several attractive features, such as versatile sharing options that can drive substantial traffic to publishers, as TechCrunch noted.

Voltaire once said, "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it." Freedom of speech is important for dialogue and information. For centuries, people have been defending and fighting for their right to say anything they want. With the growing number of countries supporting free speech, more opinions and ideas are being expressed than ever. Still, it begs the question: Just because you can say anything, should you?

D.C. political blog Wonkette is trying to figure out the answer after putting up a controversial post. In it, writer Jack Steuf mocked former Alaska governor Sarah Palin's son, Trig. Specifically, Steuf made jokes and comments about the three-year-old's Down Syndrome. As a result, he has gained the wrath of both Palin supporters and supporters of the rights of special needs children.