By Siobhan Courtney
Welcome to The Buzz, our weekly round up of how the stories Newsnight reports are being talked about in the blogosphere, twitterverse and other social media.
THE DEATH OF THE NEWSPAPER
Could coffee, croissants and a leisurely read of the weekend papers soon be a distant memory
Newsnight reported this week that The Observer is toundergo a strategy reviewamid speculation the publication could be axed.
Thousands have joinedFacebookandTwitterSave The Observer groups.
The journalism and society thinktank POLIS highlights the irony that these campaigns representthe first time that the venerable Sunday newspaper has had any online impact.
Elsewhere on the blogosphere, there is further debate about the possible closure of the world’s oldest Sunday newspaper.
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Sheer sentimentality aside, Liberal Conspiracy questionswhat reason there is to support its existence
Poster semiminted on Digital Spy Forums reckonsits a sign of the times that newspapers are struggling when their product is so easily accessible in numerous places.
ANALYSING THE RORSCHACH TEST
TheRorschach Inkblot Test,a psychological evaluation tool comprising a series of 10 inkblot plates created by a Swiss psychiatrist nearly 90 years ago, has been reproduced on the online encyclopediaWikipediacomplete with how to interpret patients’ responses.
It is a move which has sparked a furious debate between psychologists - who argue that prior exposure to the images and the interpretations of them could render them ineffective as a psychological assessment tool - and supporters of the free access ethos who oppose suppression of any information
True/Slant reflects how ironic it is thatin their professional life, psychiatrists want their patients to share, to open up, and now they find themselves facing a dilemma over that very generosity.
Siding with the Wikipedia defenders, Alterdestiny says the debate has raisedsome interesting questions over the role of research and its publication on public sites.
Poster Martin on the ScienceRoll blog thinks that"as the information is out there, the test is already flawed - it’s simply too late. Basically, a test that relies on security by obscurity will not work in our age."](http://scienceroll.com/2009/08/03/rorschach-test-scandal-on-wikipedia-poll/)
While Newsweek reckons that the problem with the Rorschach test is that it simplydoesn’t work.
BANKERS AND BONUSES
Despite the worst recession in decades, Barclays and HSBC this week announcedmulti-billion half-year profits.
Psychologist Graham Jones blogs about jealousy over bank profits and bonuses:“One day, probably not too far away, big companies will realise that bonuses actually work against success because they breed jealousy.”](http://www.grahamjones.co.uk/blog/internet-psychology/barclays-profits-bankers-bonuses.html)
And WalletPop blogging on the same subject saystalk of bankers and their bonuses is a good way to stir up discontent and get us all huffing and puffing… Bankers deserving bonuses Pshaw!
TWITTER
Twitter CEO Evan Williams gave Newsnight his first British television interview in which he said use of the social networking site has exploded in the UK.
Charles Arthur criticised theline of questioning on The Guardian Technology Blog, as did Shane Richmond atTelegraph.co.uk.There was also fierce debate in the Twitterverse.
But Blog.to.it thought it was awell balanced, considered piece of TV journalism,while Mike Butcher at Tech Crunch Europe saidthe confirmation from the CEO that London remains the top Twitter-using city in the world is pretty interesting.