links for 2007-03-01

Shock news: somebody’s probably unhappy about the British Press Awards shortlists.

Swindon Advertiser editor Mark Waldron appeared on ITV West tonight to explain why the government’s proposals to water down the FOIA should be defeated.

The MEN web site has relaunched.

multi-tasking activity becomes second nature for new media workers, and if you have a large enough screen, you can actually do it productively.

Wounded soldiers being treated at Walter Reed Hospital have been told by their superiors that they … are no longer allowed to talk with members of the press, according to the Army Times newspaper.

A US judge has ruled that Google can refuse ads. Richard Koman: “In essence, the judge answered the topic that’s been tearing up these pages this week: Is Google a media company? Simply, yes. Search engines are constitutionally similar to newspapers, the

Camilla Cavendish: “It would be utterly Orwellian to offer Freedom of Information only to those who do not seek it, or who seek it casually.”

Flickr shows the first photographs of a landslide in San Franscisco.

Maurice Frankel: “Requests could be refused once their costs exceeded a set threshold even if disclosure would reveal that public safety was being endangered, public money was being squandered or an authority was acting unlawfully. The Government is takin

An FOI request to the BBC reveals 125 million air miles, accounting for total emissions of 25.676m kg CO2.