links for 2006-11-01

“The Department of Constitutional Affairs has refused a request to make public the data behind a controversial recent report. The DCA is in charge of policy for the Freedom of Information Act.”

The ongoing charley horse on the booming online advertising market … is the lack of any reliable third-party traffic estimates. Alexa is a joke, but everyone uses it…

Why has Wired Digital purchased the social news recommendation site Reddit?

“From Berkeley to Harvard, Dan Gillmor tries to bring the new media into being, without bringing down the old”

“Before [US] newspaper publishers congratulate themselves on the recent 10.9% increase in the time readers spend on their web sites, they ought to take a look at how much better the competition is doing.”

A risk of e-mail interviews is having your silly questions exposed on a blog for all the world to see, as a reporter who interviewed Jason Calacanis last week found out.

Heather Brooke says “the Department for Constitutional Affairs becomes more Kafkaesque as time goes on.”

“The French association of publishers (SNE) has joined the lawsuit filed by the publishing group La Martiniere against Google.”

Paul Bradshaw has written a review of the new textbook, Online News, by Stuart Allen.