An employer would be a complete fool to let an image like college partying influence their hiring decisions.

Google and others truncate headlines at 70 characters. On the Manti Teo story, Deadspin's scoop fell down the Google search results, overtaken by copycat stories with simpler headlines. Deadspin's headline was 118 characters. Vital information - 'hoax' - was one of the words that was cut off.

Web media needs to move to TV metaphor - with full-screen imagery and other content interrupted with full-screen ads.

Publishing should be a collaboration between authors and their smartest readers - and at some point the distinction should become meaningless.

I want to institutionalise and automate chequebook journalism.

While I love the medium, I've always been skeptical about the value of blogs as businesses.

Forget about someone's resume or how they present themselves at a party. Can they blog or not? The blog doesn't lie.