links for 2007-01-14

Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc claims Engadget had “nearly 10 million page views” on the day of the iPhone announcement – ten times their normal traffic of about 1m page views.

“WikiLeaks will exploit an anonymising protocol known as The Onion Router (Tor), which routes data through a network of servers that use cryptography to hide the path that the packets took” It hopes to launch next month.

Derek Willis, who is joining WashingtonPost.com as database editor, says the web is the best medium for publishing computer-assisted reporting stories because of “the ability to customize or personalize and the luxury of designing a database so that it wi

“We’ve spent a lot of time, post-Enron, criticizing the flaws in the investment community’s gatekeeping activities. But I think we should also recognize what the Enron case tells us about the value of newspaper journalism.”

Peter Stothard guest blogging on the POLIS blog, takes up Malcolm Gladwell’s thesis: “We hacks are trained, it seems, to solve puzzles but not mysteries, a grander art altogether.”

More RFID-based advertising…

“Adam Boulton who has been elected unopposed as Chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby Journalists”

A former Hewlett-Packard private investigator is expected to plead guilty today to federal charges that he posed as a reporter to get phone records for the company’s internal investigation of boardroom leaks.

Jeff Jarvis on the Telegraph’s blogging situation: I’d think that would be rather a perfect case for blogging: transparently revealing the process of news, especially when it makes a wrong turn.”

At a UN press conference, a BBC Afrique journalist insisted that new SG Ban Ki-moon answer a question in French. “France has required all UN secretaries-general to speak French, and Mr Ban has been plugging away at French lessons for the past year.”

BBC director general Mark Thompson talks to the New York Times: “Everyone [at Merton College, Oxford] was applying to the BBC. I thought I would do that, too. I almost applied as an afterthought.”

David Dunkley Gyimah’s film about regional newspaper jounralists being trained to shoot view is now available online.