links for 2007-03-22

Thursday, 22 March 2007, 12:22

• Blamerbell Briefs: Why is Google promoting the BNP?
  Google News still draws fire for its lack of transparency about how it choses what to include in Google News search.
  (tags: google googlenews bnp)
• Simon Dickson: BBC News does its own Google Maps style nav
  Simon Dickson highlights an impressive interactive map from the BBC showing the hotspots of violence in Baghdad.
  (tags: bbc googlemaps iraq journalism online)
• Simon Dickson: Frantic micro-blogging at the BBC
  Nick Robinson did some “frantic microblogging” of the budget announcements yesterday for the BBC . Wot, no Twitter?
  (tags: blogging journalism bbc twitter)
• Tim Worstall: Freedom of Information
  “Couldn’t have people who actually know how to go digging for information making use of it now, could we?”
  (tags: foi foia politics uk dca journalism)
• OJR: Lessons from ‘Talking Points Memo’ and the U.S. attorney scandal
  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.
  (tags: blogs blogging journalism usa politics)

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