links for 2006-11-08

“Google is a reality. Arguing about whether it is friend or foe will do no more good than sitting back and watching it do what you should be doing.”

MEN editor Paul Horrocks has made his inaugural speech as the new president of the Society of Editors.

The Glasgow civic dinner for the Society of Editors at Kelvingrove event was picketed by council workers protesting changes to their pay structure.

“The BBC wants to extend the hand of friendship to news-papers and even pay them to provide news content, director-general Mark Thompson said yesterday.”

Germany’s Axel Springer, publisher of the redtop Bild, is to launch Second Life’s first tabloid – in English. And it will have an in-game editorial office.

Mathew Ingram of Canada’s Globe & Mail says it is no wonder newspapers are in trouble when editors like Andew Neil are “still clueless” about how Google works.

Seth Sutel of the Associated Press has put together a useful primer on RSS>