links for 2007-03-26

“A gross imbalance has been allowed to develop between the legal privileges of rights holders and society’s need to facilitate innovation and creativity.”

“British firms are at risk of data leakage through their employees’ increasing use of Web 2.0 technologies and social networking websites, security experts have warned.”

“Here are the mobile phone bills – paid for by tax payers – of Warrington borough councillors for the past three years.” (Note second comment)

“The diplomat charged by the Government with lecturing the world on global warming has been revealed as one of the biggest contributors to it.”

Adrian Monck responds to Dave Winer: “I don’t think j-schools need reforming so much as education in journalism needs to be made more widely available.”

Top 40 sites according to Feedburner RSS subscribers. 385K subscribers at Boing Boing, 325K at Techcrunch, dropping off to 97K at 43Folders.

Tim O’Reilly: “The real issue isn’t editorial. It’s the business model. The price of a daily paper doesn’t pay for much of its budget. It’s mostly subsidized by advertising.”

“I can’t speak for the others whom he insists insist did no reporting (though, how did he know for sure?), but I can speak for myself. Let’s see. Does my book about the changes in media count as reporting?”

“The following is intended to inform all the tech bloggers with advice for newspapers about some of the challenges faced by those of us trying to bring about change from the inside.”

The “special” online identity communicates: “This is not the real thing. It’s a sloppy version of the paper.” Get rid of that silly “online” or “.com” or “.co.uk”

“To me, part of the problem is that everyone focuses on the “paper” part of the word “newspaper,” which to me is the least important part of the term.”

Time has joined Newsweek’s practice of putting world affairs on the cover everywhere except the United States…

Ian Reeves: “It is telling … that the two most compelling pieces of news video footage this year have been broken on newspaper websites rather than on television news bulletins.”