links for 2007-06-08

Dan Gillmor takes on the “misguided charge that search engines are somehow pirating newspapers’ work” and the criticism that most blogging is not journalism: “So what? Neither is most writing on paper, most photography, most video or most anything else.”

Martin Moore after receiving a call from Precious Williams about the Maily on Sunday’s retracted Jon Snow stories: “It isn’t tenable for a news organisation to admit it got something so completely wrong but not explain how or why.”

“Journalists don’t need to learn how to code if all you think journalism can be is words/pictures/video.”

Kevein Maguire complains that the G8 press centre (five miles from the summit Heiligendamm and outside the security barrier) has everything, “except what we value most: hard information.”

President of the German Newspaper Publishers’ Assn (BDZV): UGC is not journalism, “citizen journalism” is a misnomer, and calling for submissions of celebrity cameraphone-pics can lead to papers encouraging “collective paparazzidom”.

“Our May 30 story headed ‘Uuurrgh! My Corgi kebab is a bit ruff’ said that Yoko Ono was on a radio show and ‘tasted’ dog meat … The report, which was filed to us by several leading press agencies was wholly wrong…”

The BBC is looking for contributions for its How We Built Britain Photosynth project by encouraging people to upload their images to Flickr.

“The BBC is using Microsoft’s Photosynth 3D imaging software to provide views of prominent British buildings in conjunction with a new TV show, How We Built Britain.”