links for 2006-10-15
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If we’re lucky, we’ll keep the good part of today’s professional journalism, finding a way to pay for it, and augment it with citizen media. If we get this wrong, it will be ugly.
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Chris Vallance reports from Second Life.
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Isn’t it about time to blow the lid off this idea of conversation? Who is having a conversation with whom? They’re not having a conversation with me. Not the newspapers I write for nor blogs like buzzmachine.
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How top editors decide whether to publish national security stories based on classified information
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RFID tagging passengers at airports could become a reality “in two years”.
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DMGT is expected to pay £10m for Villarentals.com, bringing its recent spending on web sties to more than £170m
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The corporation is mounting a landmark High Court action to prevent the release of The Balen Report under the Freedom of Information Act.
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“I agree with Jeff Jarvis and others that journalists should build their brands. But how do you do it if you’re an editor tucked away in a large media company?”
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When a plane crashed into a New York building last week, Fox News broke the story using a hand-held mobile phone souped up with streaming video.
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An important observation on McCall’s speech: “But community is only one part of the puzzle. It needs to be combined with the shifting geography and multimedia.”
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“In an age of user-created content, do the bandwidth providers/media hosters owe us anything? Or are our little nuggets of genius just a small payment for their free services?”
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“Whadda ya’ know? Coppersblog in the Mail. This year, they’re paying for it though.”
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Very cool indeed.
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