links for 2007-03-07

“‘Content’ is inert. It isn’t alive. It doesn’t grow, or catch fire, or go viral. Ideas and insights do that. Interesting facts do that.”

Paul Bradshaw’s students at UCE Birmingham are running a local news web site — and producing blogs to explain what they are doing.

“From the Pentagon Papers to Thalidomide, from Spycatcher to cash for honours politicians have persistently tried to revive the use of the law to gag reporters pursuing legitimate stories about public life.”

Lisa Snedeker writes in MediaLife: “the other problem newspapers face is coming up with a metric to replace circulation that combines print and online readership in a manner that advertisers can understand and work with.”

This post … “looks at the changing landscape of competitors online, going beyond the competition presented to ad sales by classifieds providers to look at the where consumers are turning for their news.”

Ryan Sholin: “Every newspaper’s push into online innovation (Multimedia, Interactivity, Data) is going to be different, based on its resources (time, money, staff) and community (size, age, attitude).”

Jeff Jarvis: 18 Doughty Street is “about to expand into America with a deal to use the Arlington, Virginia, studios of the Leadership Institute, and an offer to use the Heritage Foundation’s satellites.”

Lord Falconer’s “But his true aim – motivated, many feel, by his Government’s hatred of the Press – is to curb this new-found freedom.”