links for 2007-03-20

Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 12:21

• Kempton’s blog: The Economist’s Project Red Stripe – What were they thinking?
  “Are there any good reasons to list and blog about the submitted off-track or insulting ideas that won’t get developed instead of showcasing some of those good ideas that may get developed?”
  (tags: blog redstripe)
• Guardian: ‘No one listens to podcasts’
  Simon Kelner on the Indy’s site: “It’s being redesigned, it’ll have bells and whistles attached to it and we know that we need to step up our game on the internet.
  (tags: independent online journalism newspapers podcasting)
• MediaBizTech: Myspace news service will fail
  Rob Freeman says MySpace’s social news service will fail if, as reported, it is designed to keep users on the MySpace site.
  (tags: myspace digg reddit google googlenews)
• Comment is free Editors’ Blog: Is anybody listening?
  Elisabeth Ribbans: “One journalist at this morning’s conference thought [Simon] Kelner was simply “trying to justify his paper’s lack of presence on the web”. Another thought the prospect of Heffer and Cameron would bring out the Luddite in anyone.”
  (tags: podcasts guardian independent cif newspapers journalism)
• Computer Weekly: ID cards: ‘openness would damage project reviews’
  “Publication of independent reviews into the government’s ID cards project would set a precedent that would lead to open confrontation between government departments, a freedom of information tribunal heard last week.”
  (tags: foi foia informationtribunal idcards)
• The Twitterholic.com Top 100 Twitter Users
  “WE”R IN UR TWTTR PAGES, READN UR STATZ”
  (tags: community statistics twitter)
• PA: Parking fees make hospitals £95m
  Figures, released under the Freedom of Information Act, show hospital trusts in England made at least £95 million in parking fees in 2005/06.
  (tags: foi foia health)
• The New Yorker: The Talk of the Town: Dear Diary: British Import:
  British blogger Girl with a One Track Mind hits the mag world bigtime.
  (tags: blogs bloggers newyorker)
• Troubled Diva: Compiling a blog-book for Comic Relief’s Red Nose Day, in 7 days flat.
  About “Shaggy Blog Stories: a collection of amusing tales from the UK blogosphere.”
  (tags: blooks blogs books comicrelief bloggers uk)
• Online Journalism Blog: Herald-Tribune shows the way for Flash and database journalism
  Paul Bradshaw: ‘I’m still scooping my jaw from the floor after looking at the Herald-Tribune’s Flash interactive on how complaints about teachers are handled.”
  (tags: flash data journalism)
• Roanoke.com: Should gun data lists be muzzled?
  The Roanoke Times experienced a backlash after celebrating “Sunshine Week” by publishing a public database listing the names and addresses of people licensed to carry concealed handguns.
  (tags: foi foia sunshine+week guns journalism data online privacy)
• Which? calls for protection of information
  “Which? has strongly criticised proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that would make it much harder for campaigning organisations to request information from government bodies.”
  (tags: foi foia fees dca which)

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