links for 2007-02-02

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has filed suit against the US Dept of Defense in its attempt to get information about the Army Web Risk Assessment Cell, which reportedly scans the internet for operational security violations found in postings of both o

“The Orlando Sentinel has created a new “A.M. news teamh” — a group of reporters, visual journalists, editors and Web producers whose job it is to update OrlandoSentinel.com early in the morning and throughout the day.”

Maurice Frankel on the FOI (Amendment) Bill: “Across the public sector, information about expenses and spending is routinely disclosed under FOI. There is no reason for a lower standard for parliament..”

Ben Hammersley: “The World Economic Forum gave some bloggers – Jeff Jarvis, Loic Le Meur, for example – greater access rights than the regular media. Bloggers with HD camcorders could wander anywhere in the building, while professional crews were restrict

Bobbie Johnson goes after a rude journalism student: “Brett’s mind, a discussion between professional peers becomes a black hole simply because it happens on blogs – and not, presumably, in the letters pages of some austere journal.”

Shane Richmond reviews the Nintendo Wii’s “pretty decent” news browser. “Nintendo told me … Europe will get its own news channel later in the year.”