links for 2007-02-03

“Sending a letter to editors asking if they have adequate controls to stop [phone screwing] happening like asking an alcoholic’s advice on temperance.”

Martin Rosenbaum: “While some of her ministerial colleagues seem to be less than enthusiastic about it, Harriet Harman is proclaiming the virtues of open goverment.”

Seamus MaCauley: “The New York Times has two problems … Scale or revenues is the first… The second is how to stop their best writers… just setting up on their own.”

The ICO appears to have fixed its notoriously temperamental decision notice RSS feed. Good news for fellow information policy geeks.

Cardiff student Dan Worth has passed his 100WPM shorthand exam. An now he’s wondering whether the effort was worth it.

Mindy McAdams: “I think perhaps we have come to the point when a journalist should have the kind of relationship with his or her computer that a photojournalist has with the camera. It is always with you. It is always ready.”

More coverage of news sites’ headline SEO efforts.