By Kevin Brown

I was in my early 20s when someone took me into the corner of a local newsroom and pointed at the internet. There it was, sat flashing in the corner – a gleaming cyber coalface.

I was a wannabe journalist who didn’t know a jpeg from a clothes peg. But because I was young, they asked me to “have a fiddle around on that and see what it does”. Innocent times.

User-generated content was a letter to the editor and blogging was essentially the preserve of the self-obsessed and the insane – aka the columnist.

But since then, we’ve gone squirrels for Read full story ›

Source: The Drum