links for 2007-02-13

“Little birds tell me that the Independent is going to – finally – upgrade its systems, bought in 2000 and which have all this time been running Mac OS 9. And the upgrade? To PCs which will be running Quark 7 – something of an upgrade from the Quark 4.”

“Google … may receive a court ruling as soon as today in a Belgian dispute over how the company links to online newspaper content. … or [Tuesday] at the latest. …”

“For a nation that has long prided itself on a grand journalistic tradition the credo is now: It’s Not The Journalism, Stupid, It’s the DVD, Cheap Holidays and Discount Dining.”

Essential reading from the Wall Street Journal about social bookmarking and -recommendation. Read this yesterday, e-mailed it to Graham, but somehow forgot to tag it. (Thanks, Robin.)

Mathew Ingram on that Cali station that sacked all its journalists in favour of citJs: “In the long run, TV stations like KFTY may be sowing the seeds of their own irrelevance.”

Rob Curley: “If a print editor was planning a huge enterprise project that was going to be really special for the newspaper … would people ask that print editor how he or she was going to monetize it?”