Fantastic post by Derek Powazek at powazek.com. It all seems so simple. I'd love to try this out will a failing news-weekly.

Following on from my previous Pinboard post, the Nieman Journalism Lab's Jonathan Stray has had the opportunity to find out more about the BBC's User Generarted Content Hub from one of its contributors Silvia Costeloe.

MA Online Journalism (Birmingham City University) student Caroline Beavon has posted a series of videos from her workshop with Matthew Eltringham, who heads up the BBC's User Generated Content Hub.

"We all like to play God. We like to imagine that the design we create is ushered into the world and all those who use it have an epiphany…they do things exactly in the way we have prescribed. They approach, use, and experience our design in the manner we envisioned, resulting in an amazing user experience."