links for 2007-02-15

“We would love to be able share video clips from the We Media Miami conference but . . we can’t find any.”

Heather Brooke: “It can’t be a coincidence that just as MPs’ expenses are coming under greater public scrutiny for the first time, legislation is simultaneously moving forward that would cripple the FOI act and exempt all MPs from its coverage.”

Martin Belam: I’ve mentioned before the sometimes unfortunate editorial juxtapositions online caused by The Sun’s twin obsessions of looking at ladies boobies and catching ‘sick pervs’, but sometimes it is just beyond parody.”

Textbooks for teaching online journalism at university level.

Bobbie Johnson: “Even spending our time talking about this seems to pander to the worst excesses of our attention spans, where we care more about the form of something than what it actually does”.

The Fujitsu colour e-paper thingy: Is this the future of newspapers?

“MPs have questioned the accuracy of figures showing a breakdown of their £4.5m travel expenses claims.”

“Google News gets more press mentions than other news search engines. It gets more blog mentions, too. But, Yahoo News and AOL News have larger unique audiences.”

There are other ways of merging RSS feeds, but this is more than a bit more elegant…

Adrian Monck on blog comments: “Now you can hear what’s going on in the heads of a strange fraction of people who read you. That isn’t market research and it isn’t contact.”

Britain’s best blogging civil servant writes: “I am in favour of as much freedom of information as possible. The government and public servants should be accountable to the citizens … Transparency also leads to better policy-making. The additional bur

Britain’s original blogging MP: “The Freedom of Information Act … [has] become part of the democratic fabric of the nation … To change it now, would be folly. “

“I confess that I still don’t get the whole Belgium vs. Google thing. I keep reading about it and reading about it, and thinking about it — hoping that I have somehow missed a crucial point or argument in the newspapers’ position that makes this who