links for 2007-07-07
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Telegraph.co.uk’s Marcus Warren parses the New York Times’ comment moderation guidelines. One of them he describes as “borderline priggish”. Just the one?
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Sky News “shows 28 year-old Mike Barnett who died from hypthermia after becoming trapped in a drain grill… Should Sky have shown this?”
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“Al-Jazeera English …has … more than 20,000 US subscribers to its online service, side-stepping the cable operators whose reluctance to carry the channel overshadowed its launch last November.” US viewers are 60% of its audience. The service costs £3
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Why should news organisations have community features? Kevin Anderson interviews Steve Yelvington.
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Rick Waghorn’s plans have changed: “I think the way it may work is: I’ve got some funding that we use to actually pay salaried journalists to open a Sheffield bureau or a Manchester bureau rather than someone actually buying a franchise off me.”
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Alfred Hermida has more about the BBC’s new approach to online video, from the ONA meetup last night. (Sorry I couldn’t make it!)
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Freeads.co.uk is the fastest growing classified site in the UK according to the latest figures from Hitwise. Traffic to the site increased by 160% in the first half of 2007, outgrowing the overall classified market by more than 14 times.
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Alan Johnston has been freed… and here is your replacement button
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MyTelegraph after 8 weeks: “More than 4,500 people have signed up so far, though things have slowed down since the first couple of days when we were handling a new registration every three minutes.”
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Boaden: “Fewer than 25% of 15- 24s watch 15 consecutive minutes of BBC News on TV in any given week. … While 16-24s are watching less TV than their counterparts in previous decades, they spend three times as long using new media than over 25s”
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“Private equity houses Exponent and Barclays Private Equity are closing in on a deal to buy Trinity Mirror’s Midland newspaper titles for £160m-£180m.”
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Scott Karp: “[T]here is not a publisher or media company who shouldn’t be tracking the iPhone closely. The iPhone is a window into the future of media.”
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Danah Boyd’s research gets the BusinessWeek treatment. A Myspace “spokesperson says that nearly a quarter (22%) of its users earn more than $100,000.”
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“Well, that didn’t take long — the hacker crew of IRC channel #iPhone has managed to enable shell access to the iPhone just a week after its release.”
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David Sullivan: “The newspaper business will never be what it was before the Internet. … But then theater is not what it was before movies…. They’re all still there, though they’re different. People enjoy them. They buy tickets and go to gallerie
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