If you only read one thing this Week - It is worth considering the end of Newsweek as a press entity, as it is swallowed up by it's digital sibling The Daily Beast . Here http://ow.ly/eBl4V and in the box below, is the New York Times' take on events. The inexorable pressure exerted by digital forces were key to the title's closure, but editor Tina Brown did not help matters according to David Carr in the NYT -

Despite her best efforts to take a flagging product and rejuvenate it, much of what she tried fell flat, and her attempts to create buzz with cover articles that discussed sex addiction and called President Obama "the first gay president'' resulted mostly in puzzlement and, sometimes, ridicule.

No discussion about the plight of press in the digital age, especially magazines, is complete without @neilperkin's recent and very excellent article on the subject. He here diagnoses the problems and provides insights into how the challenges may be countered - http://ow.ly/eBlIj

Here is my piece, from this week - Jimmy Savile, Hillsborough and the power of social media to do good. On The Wall blog here
- http://ow.ly/eBayu and on The Digital Filter blog here
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Oops.... Google's shares are suspended following the accidental release of earnings information - http://ow.ly/eBoC1 The results weren't great either : quarterly profits fell 20% due to the cost of buying Motorola and lower than anticipated revenues from mobile advertising.

Did you know there is a movement that seeks to ban a particular type of font ? The font in question is "Comic Sans". This font has been scorned by many, who take issue with its migration from its comic book roots into commerce. Comic Sans hatred also hit a fever pitch this summer when CERN 'dared' to use the font to announce the discovery of the Higgs Boson particle. Here are some famous brand logos rendered in "Comic Sans" - who says that font doesn't matter? http://ow.ly/eBf77

Video of the Week - is an eye opening time-shift video piece that looks at the space shuttle Endeavour's last journey - a three day road trip around Los Angeles, ending up at a city museum. Click on link here - http://ow.ly/eBiwW and in the video box below.

For all amateur content creators (like me) here are 10 blogging tips to avoid - http://ow.ly/eBaTX

So Halloween , is coming and in celebration here are Forbes' 'Top 10 Sci-Fi Horror movies of all time'. Interesting that the Alien films only come in at two and three. Personally I can't argue with the number one pick though - a properly scary movie : http://ow.ly/eBfvg

Awesome and very shiny - take a look inside Google's Data Centres - http://ow.ly/eBkBK

A great new series from Wired. The Decades that invented the Future- first edition 1900-1910 - http://ow.ly/eBkKe

Interesting piece from gigaom.com regarding free speech on the web. Two recent events, at Twitter and then at Reddit, have again highlighted this issue:
The German government requested the blocking of a twitter account, where the user was posting neo-nazi sentiments http://ow.ly/eBhnM. This is the first time Twitter has done this at the request of a country.

Over at Reddit, a moderator known as 'Violentacrez' created a series of offensive and quasi-legal threads or sub-Reddits within the site devoted to posting photos of women (in some cases, minors) taken in public without their permission. Despite the removal of the offending content and perpetrator, Reddit CEO Yishan Wong made his position very clear on the matter of freedom of speech, when he said the ban - "is not making Reddit look so good," and that in the future the site will "respect journalism as a form of speech that we don't ban,"

This is a new combination on me, but I like it - Philosophy and Comics' brought to us via Action Philosophers - http://ow.ly/eBkc5 and here - http://ow.ly/eBkiJ (get them on your mobile device)

Mesmerizing. 30 seconds of breathtaking physics in action - watch a water droplet bounce in ultra-slow-motion - http://ow.ly/eBkrG

This is great - a series of highly amusing 60 second videos, 'explaining' Religion ; entitled - 'Religion as - social control / as a virus / as a mother etc... Voiced by David Mitchell - http://ow.ly/eBjeW

Articles at the bottom of the mail look at - Google's Virtual Museum, a social media fail from Thomas Cook, and the launch of Facebook Gifts.

If the web was primarily created to allow for the distribution of funny cat videos (and there are a good few who believe this) then this has got to be the daddy of all 'amusing' cat video sites - http://procatinator.com

Loads more information and links to social channels on the website - www.thedigitalfilter.com