links for 2007-03-22

Google News still draws fire for its lack of transparency about how it choses what to include in Google News search.

Simon Dickson highlights an impressive interactive map from the BBC showing the hotspots of violence in Baghdad.

Nick Robinson did some “frantic microblogging” of the budget announcements yesterday for the BBC . Wot, no Twitter?

“Couldn’t have people who actually know how to go digging for information making use of it now, could we?”

Robert Niles draws together the lessons for journalism from the role of Josh Marshall’s muckraking blog in breaking the story that provoked the current political scandal in the United States.