links for 2007-03-25

“This paper applies to the UK except Scotland and examines the issue of whether a valid Freedom of Information (FOI) request can be made for undergraduate and Masters dissertations.”

Ben Raworth: “they called it Monkey because a monkey ‘hates the Zoo and eats Nuts‘;”

The BBC’s High Court appeal against the Information Tribunal’s ruling to release the Balen Report starts on Tuesday. Key line: “Others believe that the BBC is using the case to test the law about how much protection it has got from making its editorial activities public and also because it fears that if it loses the case it will create a precedent.

German media blogger Christian Jakubetz: “Journalistic sites are defined by content, not technology. I am only marginally interested in how 2.0-ish their offering is.

Some thoughts from Tim O’Reilly, Dave Winer and Doc Searls on how to improve newspapers online and how journalism education needs to change.

“A new community TV station on broadband for the Outer Hebrides is on schedule to launch in July after receiving an £80,000 grant from the European Union.”

Robert Scoble: “[In] 2005, I told San Jose State’s Journalism school that my son would never subscribe to, nor read, a newspaper … I told the faculty there that deep changes must be made. They haven’t yet listened.” (Read the comments)