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Just to note that the Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress. Why? According to online editor Martin King, there was a simple reason for the move: 'to make them better.' Clearly a man after my own heart. He writes: 'We are demonstrating that globally standard programs can free mainstream journalism from the [...] read on »

The Independent's new blogging platform, Independent Minds, launched yesterday in a partnership with the now Russian-owned Livejournal. But unlike the Telegraph's MyTelegraph site, it puts the journalists' blogs on the same platform as the readers'. It's a dramatic improvement (as you'd expect) on the very clunky, and frankly half-hearted blogging efforts they were doing on [...] read on »