links for 2007-03-24

“Lord Falconer tells us today that the Freedom of Information Act was intended for the public not the press. … Who does he think the press is working for?”

“Blogger and anarchist Josh Wolf isn’t a traditional reporter, but he’s been in jail on contempt of court charges longer than any U.S. journalist in memory.”

Student Alexis Forsyth on a talk by Helen Roberts, the real-life editor at More magazine: “Amidst all the talk about living and breathing journalism … I had forgot that it is part of a money-making machine. And this for me, tarnished the glint just a li

New York Times editor Bill Keller: Lawrie Mifflin is leaving the video unit for a roaming, special assignment: “moving from desk to desk to help find the best ways to navigate the new world of integrated web-print journalism.”

Details from a patent application for its blog search tool could help bloggers understand how Google ranks their posts.

“Amanda Congdon, a video blogger who has bee doing work for ABC News since late last year, is catching heat this week over some online video advertisements she created for Du Pont on the side.”

“Crowdsourcing can be broken down in to three categories: 1. creation (like Wikipedia);
2. prediction (like Yahoo! Buzz); and 3. organization (like Google).”

“The BBC’s governing Trust will not be making a decision on funding the international part of the BBC website with adverts until later in the spring.”

My favorite bit is the first 23 seconds. But the rest is fun too. Monck’s Maxims are applied to the Belfast Telegraph. And Ian doesn’t get Twitter. He’ll come round. Maybe.

“Twitter is perfect for folks with a bit of name recognition who can build a list of followers and have a desire to live in the public eye”

“Often, the network effect of the community is far more important than the technology or what its initial envisioned use.”

A nugget from State of the News Media 2007: “The press is no longer gatekeeper over what the public knows. Journalists have reacted relatively slowly. They are only now beginning to re-imagine their role. Their companies failed to see ‘search’ as a kind o

“the Indian print media too has begun seeing a decline in readership as has been happening in many Western countries. Most of the top-rung newspapers and magazines have lost out on readers, according to the Indian Readership Survey (IRS) 2007 Round 1.”

TMP Muckraker reporter Paul Kiel explains the blog’s role in driving the story behind the scandal engulfing US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.