links for 2007-01-27

Saturday, 27 January 2007, 12:22

• BBC Open Secrets: Will MPs be exempt from FOI?
  Martin Rosenbaum analyses the Freedom of Information (Amendment) Bill. The exemption David MacLean MP is attempting to create for MPs would, as it stands, be subject to a public interest test.
  (tags: foia foi)
• Index on Censorship: MP bids to exempt parliament from FoI law clauses
  David Maclean’s FOI (Amendment) Bill “would put the UK out of step even with the newest and most fragile European democracies, such as Bosnia and Serbia, who have recently legislated to open up their parliaments to public scrutiny.”
  (tags: foi foia)
• Twitter / Suw : MrA asked me to marry him. …
  Congratulations to media-blogging’s power couple, whose engagement was announced (how else) via Twitter.
  (tags: twitter)
• Spy Blog: No more Openness at the Cabinet Office
  The Cabinet Office Openness Team has a new name — and a not-very-prominent web page.
  (tags: foi foia cabinet_office)
• Nicholas Carr: Google’s machine
  “After years of taking a fairly laissez-faire attitude toward googlebombing, Google has now taken action to stop the practice.”
  (tags: google googlebombs search pr)
• cybersoc.com: tom’s list: a lot of bbc 2.0 is about sharing
  Tom Loosemoore, who is heading the BBC 2.0 project, has posted the BBC’s 15 Web Principles.
  (tags: bbc web2.0 web)
• Romenesko: Journalists aren’t dinosaurs; they’re an evolving species
  “One thing is obvious to many mainstream journalists today: those among us who have lost heart, or who don’t want to run this race, or who are stuck in 1979, need to get out, and are getting out of the business.”
  (tags: journalism)
• Lost Remote TV Blog: No, I will not make you my homepage.
  “There are still too many news sites out there with the exhortation to “Make Us Your Homepage.” No. My homepage is Google Reader. I aggregate hundreds of headlines from around the world, catered to my own interests.”
  (tags: rss)
• Editors Weblog: Integrated Newsrooms part 1: The new Telegraph model
  Editors Weblog looks at newsroom integration at the Telegraph.
  (tags: integration internet newspapers newsrooms telegraph journalism)
• Dadblog: Having fun with Dacre
  Shepherd fisks Dacre: “OK, let’s have some fun with Mr Dacre and his speech, and use him as a compass of our moral values – ie, Dacre is the South Pole, and we’ll point north, thanks very much.”
  (tags: daily_mail journalism tabloids bbc subsidariat)
• Journalism.co.uk: Trinity Mirror launches ultra-local citizen journalism sites
  “Trinity Mirror has launched five citizen journalism micro-sites as a taster of what could become commonplace across the group’s news websites.”
  (tags: trinity_mirror hyperlocal journalism citizenjournalism)

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