links for 2007-06-15
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“She will also be writing regularly for the Web site and in a new feature offering regular picks of the best or most innovative new online features at news sites.”
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Kate Adie tells Mike Mullane: “…journalists shouldn’t have any time to blog – there are too many stories waiting to be told!” And thinks BBC managers shouldn’t be blogging during office hours. (via Adrian Monck)
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Kevin Anderson spots a great headline from the Islington Gazette…
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The Louisville Courier-Journal may sue the NCAA for barring its blogging reporter from a college baseball game.
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This local newspaper story is crying out for a Google Maps mashup. I’ve seen the same story done with a mapping element in a Danish paper. (Paging Simon Dickson!)
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“The [Los Angeles] Times deserves a prize simply for finding a way to use computer-assisted reporting in a story about Paris Hilton.”
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“Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, welcomes a second [Private Members] Bill which could make the [Freedom of Information Act] stronger.” Too bad it has a snowball’s chance in hell…
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“Now that 21-year-old Brian Stelter has gone off to … the New York Times, Mediabistro’s looking for a new blogger to take his place on TVNewser.”
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A rumour that iPhone won’t support Flash comes “just days after the latest iPhone commercial depicted a happy, errorless loading of the New York Times’ Flash-enabled site “
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“Social-networking websites that connect people through their taste in literature are gaining in popularity – and publishers are starting to take notice.”
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Wow. New York gossip blog Gawker absolutely trashes the Mail on Sunday for its cinema ad. (via Andy Dickinson)
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