links for 2006-11-22

Wednesday, 22 November 2006, 18:17

• Freedom of Information & Open Government Blog: FOI fees proposals consultation
  There will be no formal consulation on proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act fees regime. The Campaign for FOI is encouraging people to write directly to Lord Falconer.
  (tags: foi dca fees)
• Official Google Blog: And now, Google News sitemaps
  Google has launched some new webmaster tools that allow publishers whose sites are included in Google News to define which articles appear in the aggregator.
  (tags: Google googlenews Journalism)
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Introducing Sitemaps for Google News
  … more details of the new Google News webmaster tools.
  (tags: google googlenews sitemaps)
• NewAssignment.Net: Open Up the Business Model: How Citizen Journalists Get Rewarded
  Rachel Sterne looks at the various models that citizen journalism projects have used to pay their contributors.
  (tags: newassignment citizenjournalism blogburst current.tv google groundreport newsvine ohmynews)
• Online Journalism Review: ‘Potemkin Village’ Redux
  Tom Grubisich has updated his 2005 OJR article which argued that hyperlocal citizen journalism initiatives had until then failed to live up to their promise. What has happened 12 months later?
  (tags: citizenJournalism hyperlocal journalism)
• “Web-first” publishing at the Guardian: balancing between speed and quality
  The Editors Weblog interviews Guardian foreign editor Harriet Sherwood.
  (tags: guardian online webfirst)
• CJR Daily: Bloggers Doubt TVNewser’s Abilities as Trade Columnist
  Bloggers have been responding to the New York Times gushing story about the 21-year-old blogger behind the US television news and gossip site TVNewser. One says he wouldn’t have a chance to execute something similar at (ahem) a traditional trade magazine.
  (tags: jounralism bloggers blogging blogs television usa)

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