Three weeks ago a Finnish language radio station in Sweden started a social media campaign to find out what people felt about speaking Finnish. They asked people if they "dare to speak Finnish when in Sweden". The radio station, called Finnblicken, decided to crowdsource responses using a hashtag which translates as 'dare to speak Finnish'. And it generated a huge number of responses.

Charlie Redmayne will deliver a brisk message at an industry conference on Thursday, warning publishers against letting digital rivals steal their role - storytelling. Publishers have allowed competitors to jump in, he says, whether they are startup companies producing apps or authors publishing their novels on Amazon. Now they "need to take that space back" by producing content for games players, tablet computers and other devices.

The UK will lose its spot as the top social networking country in western Europe by the end of 2014, with Germany set to push the British into second position, according to the latest forecast from eMarketer. The number of social network users in Germany is expected to reach 35.4 million by the forecast period, which is more than the UK's estimated 33.9 million by then.

One of the most fascinating things about Brown Moses from a journalistic point of view is that he is completely self-taught, and gets no income from what he does - he appears to be motivated purely by curiosity, and a desire to get the truth out where everyone can see it, something that is a fundamentally journalistic impulse. And yet he has no training as a journalist, and probably wouldn't qualify as one even under the broadest interpretation of a recent U.S. "shield law" aimed at protecting journalists.

celand's attempts to become a free-speech haven risk floundering in the wake of revelations regarding the extent of internet monitoring by the US and UK intelligence agencies. The Icelandic Modern Media Initiative has spent the last three years working protections for whistleblowers and investigative journalists into the country's constitution. But the knowledge that monitoring of digital communications is far more widespread than previously thought makes it difficult to promise safety to sources who might have hoped otherwise.

NewsWhip Spike, a tool for finding news stories trending on social media, has introduced a local element to its search function that shows stories with social traction in regions of the UK, US, Canada and Germany. The software behind Spike, which already surfaces popular stories on various interest topics from news sites around the world, trawls through more than 1,000 news outlets and blogs in the UK to highlight stories that are being shared the most in different regions.

Twitter and Facebook should let users block anonymous messages if they are serious about stopping bullying and trolling on social media sites, David Cameron's adviser on child internet safety has said. Claire Perry, a Conservative whip, said internet firms are currently not doing enough to tackle bullying online and called for more prosecutions of people who make online threats,that she described as misogynistic.

Social money transfer platform Azimo has announced its expansion into the German and Irish international money transfer market. After launching in the UK in 2012, Azimo will now be in a position to help another 85 million people transfer money overseas at greatly reduced rates compared to traditional financial institutions. With a reach of more than 190 countries and territories, Azimo lets users send money around the globe to bank accounts and cash payment desks - and in some cases ATMs and by courier - quickly, securely and at a low cost.

The fashion and culture glossy bought by Vice Media in December 2012, has launched a new website with a strong visual focus and novel community elements. The website is the result of nine months of conversations at i-D and with Vice, where the previously separate print and digital teams are now united in the Vice offices.

A Tory MP has announced he will sue the Daily Telegraph after the newspaper conducted a sting which revealed the politician asked for a GBP3,000 per month consultancy fee as part of an Albanian business deal. Mark Pritchard MP accused the newspaper of having an agenda against him because he previously sued the Telegraph and is in favour of the Government's plan for press regulation.