links for 2007-06-11

Monday, 11 June 2007, 13:21

• BBC News: Taskforce to cut ‘cyber warming’
  “Computers and other IT equipment have been blamed for causing as much global warming as the airline industry.”
  (tags: environment computers energy)
• Press Gazette: Does your website know its RSS from its elbow?
  Martin Belam gives some advice to newspapers about how to make the most of RSS.
  (tags: newspapers rss)
• MiniMediaGuy: Grassroots media gasping for air
  “[To] the students whose heard Dan [Gillmor] say “there’s never been a better time” to be a journalistic entrepreneur, let me add one suggestion: take a deep breath, and hold it for as long as you can.”
  (tags: advertising Journalism entrepreneurs citizenjournalism)
• Matt Waite: Why (some) journalists should learn (some) code
  “Recently, I argued that some journalists should learn how to program. Here’s a practical example why.”
  (tags: journalism programming googlemaps car javascript)
• gair rhydd: University to take disciplinary action against Facebook students
  “Students could be unwittingly kept under surveillance by University staff through their use of online media such as Facebook it has emerged, after several Cardiff students were threatened with disciplinary action for comments made on the social networkin
  (tags: facebook education cardiffuniversity)
• onlinejournalismus.de: Netzeitung hat neuen Besitzer
  Netzeitung, David Montgomery’s latest acquisition
  (tags: netzeitung online mecom david_montgomery)
• BrandRepublic: ESPN buys world’s biggest cricket site Cricinfo
  “ESPN, the US sports channel owned by Disney, has acquired the cricket website Cricinfo from The Wisden Group.”
  (tags: espn cricinfo cricket sports online)

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