links for 2007-01-03

Is a blog that doesn’t allow comments a blog? Zoli Erdos and Mike Arrington say no; Jeremiah Owyang says it can be, because what really matters is the willingness to have an open, transparent dialog.

The press/blogosphere pendulum, rarely stable, is swinging to an extreme anti-Google position as we start the new year.

Andy Dickinson looks at news web site usability, particularly the way they use links for navigation and to provide further information. His verdict: Guardian bad, BBC good.

Columnist Joel Stein wants no part in all this interactivity stuff: “Here’s what my Internet-fearing editors have failed to understand: I don’t want to talk to you; I want to talk at you.”

Editor Leonard Downie: Beginning this month, WaPo print editors will “help us at the Web site and at the paper think smartly about more three-dimensional ways that you can present that news.”

Shane Richmond looks at the top ten news stories on Telegraph.co.uk in 2006.

Can case my explaination of Twitter wasn’t detailed enough.

“Annelies van den Belt, the former head of online at the Telegraph and Times Online, is to join ITV to head up the launch of its revamped website and broadband TV service.”

“In a dramatic repudiation of newspapers by investors, the shares of publicly held publishing stocks in the last two years lost nearly $13.5 billion in value, or 20.5% of their market capitalization.”

Michael Arrington’s list of useful stuff.

Peter Kraslovsky looks at how local advertising in newspapers, yellow pages and directory assistance services is likely to be disrupted by Internet technologies in 2007.