First there was BuzzFeed and then there was Trinity Mirror's Usvsthe3M. And now there is i100, a new site launched by ESI Media. Like its forbears, i100 offers a diet of lists (aka listicles), games, quizzes, nuggets of news, data-driven graphics, maps and eye-catching images. The material, as with the other sites, is eminently shareable. So, in the words of ESI Media's press release, it "empowers readers."

Nick Clegg officially won the internet this week when he snapped back at the Daily Mail for its "Downing Street catwalk" coverage of the Cabinet reshuffle. Suggesting that he didn't want to be seen as "too '80s cabin attendant'" in his outfit for the day, Clegg parodied the reporting style of the Mail, which saw new environment secretary Liz Truss described as looking like an air hostess for pairing red with blue.

Metro MD Steve Auckland is leaving the company to become chief executive of ESI Media companies ESL, IPL and ESTV. Auckland will take up the role in October and the move follows the departure of group MD Andrew Mullins a week ago. A statement from ESI Media said that Auckland would help the company grow the London Evening Standard into multi-platform London media brand across print, digital and TV video, and oversee the wider transition from print to digital of the Independent brands.

Another "right to be forgotten" own goal. Google informed the Bolton News that it was deleting a 2010 court report from its search listings to comply with the European court of justice ruling in favour of protecting privacy. The result: the newspaper has made a nonsense of the ruling by republishing the de-listed article, which told of three men being jailed for attacking three soldiers, alongside a report about the original story being removed by Google.

News stories about a child rapist, a shoplifter and a financial scandal have all gone missing from Google search results in recent weeks - but now links to the stories have reappeared on "Hidden from Google," a website that is archiving examples of internet censorship that are taking place under a controversial new law. The law, which took effect in May in response to a court ruling, has led to an avalanche of "delete me" requests to Google, including many from rogues and criminals.

Rupert Murdoch's media giant 21st Century Fox last month made an $80bn takeover bid for Time Warner - but was rebuffed, the New York Times reported Wednesday. Don't think the idea has gone away. The Times points out that Murdoch has built a global media juggernaut over 50 years, in part "by pursuing bold deals that were often rebuffed at first by the targets of his overtures, only to later acquiesce." That trend started when he outbid Robert Maxwell for the News of the World in the UK.

Representatives of Domino, Cooking Vinyl, Epitaph, Because Music, Glassnote, Mushroom Group, Nettwerk, Ninja Tune, Secretly Canadian, Saddle Creek, Sub Pop, Tommy Boy, XL Recordings and the Beggars Group, representing 4AD, Matador and Rough Trade, are among the 700-plus signatories of the 'Fair Digital Deals Declaration' - a firm commitment from the global independent community to treat artists fairly in relation to the digital exploitation of recorded works with third parties.

Almost three years to the day after it launched its attempt at a social network, Google has removed the last remaining restrictions it had on what name users could go by on Google+ - meaning the search giant has abandoned its so-called "real name" policy, and members are now free to use a pseudonym. But the change seems unlikely to cause any kind of dramatic growth, since those to whom pseudonyms made a difference have presumably already established themselves elsewhere. If anything, it makes Google seem a little desperate.

The Feminist Times, an online magazine founded by Charlotte Raven andlaunched last October, has produced its last "issue". It would appear that money has dried up. Too little has been raised through crowdfunding, and the editors cannot contemplate the "change in values" that might result from accepting help from "a big brand", or by not paying contributors.

British members of Parliament have voted through the Data Retention and Investigation Powers (DRIP) Bill, which is being fast-tracked through the legislative process, by 498 votes to 31 after a sparsely-attended "debate". As previously reported, DRIP expands the authorities' surveillance powers so that foreign web communications service providers can be forced to hand over user information - despite the assurances of the U.K. government that it only maintains the "status quo". Lawyers and web law experts (and Edward Snowden) strongly oppose it. DRIP, which all major parties agreed to support before the public got to see it, now goes to …