Tuesday squibs

About 60 open browser windows. Let’s do something with them, shall we? (Note: There may be additional installments throughout the evening.) Citizen journalist . Only those without a sense of humour won’t get at least a chuckle out of this piece of Guardian satire. 10 Ways Newspapers Can Improve Comments . Suddenly comments are the talk of at least part of the media blogosphere, which has led to Derek Powazek’s oh-so-commonsensical list. As a bonus, there’s this: “Imagine what we could do if we could get past the easy stuff.” Hear, hear. Journalists leaving newspapers because of culture and corporate . Pat Thornton explains why the industry loses some good young folk and some of the commenters seem to go out of their way to prove the point. An aside: I don’t think this is necessarily a web-related phenomenon. Bright, frustrated young journos have always left newspapers to find better ways of doing what it is they want to do. This ...