links for 2007-06-28

“Going under the radar has allowed us to investigate a sector which is totally out of the Economist Group’s remit. … we wanted to start a not-for-profit.”

Nick Robinson on Cherie Blair’s last-minute swipe at the media: “Extraordinary. Gob-smackingly spine-chillingly hair-raisingly extraordinary.”

“Ted Anthony talks to OJR about how the AP is trying, through its asap portal, to meet the needs of readers who want to access information in different ways.”

The editor-in-chief of Monocle, “Tyler Brûlé has hit out at the embrace of user-generated content by global newspapers and magazines.”

The Telegraph will “use its ‘My Telegraph’ personalised news service as the foundation for a social networking platform around [the Rugby World Cup in September].

Paul Bradshaw: “Most impressive is a tagging system which allows users to click through to articles on the same subject/person – potentially making the accompanying ‘Related articles’ box redundant.”

“[W]hat does [widget] economy mean when most developers of these compact little bundles of software joy have a hard time sustaining their interest by, like, uh, getting paid for the work?”

“[S]ports leagues and movie studios should relax their ban on online use of their footage in legitimate news stories. Otherwise two interesting–although admittedly inessential–areas of coverage will get squeezed out of the mainstream video news agenda.”