links for 2007-07-20

Now counted as “news media” for FOI fees purposes at the CIA: “alternative media” … disseminated electronically “through telecommunications.”

“Criticism of proposed rules on fees for obtaining documents under the Freedom of Information Act has prompted the CIA to establish a definition of “news media” that could include bloggers.”

“The Apple iPhone, I think, points out the inevitable doom for print newspapers. While reading news on a desktop PC or laptop isn’t always practical … at the point that most people are carrying around phones as capable as (or more so than) the iPhone,

“Every month, about 5 million National Geographics are printed. And many people seem to hoard them. For years, for decades. Why?”

Industrial dispute? What industrial dispute? We have pressing workflow management issue to resolve! Herald gets “latest database-managed cross-media content-management solution from Atex”

“Except for islands of early adopters, such as South Korea, consumers have so far shown little interest in watching TV on their handsets.” That might change with iPhone…

“WordPress has created a Facebook application that lets you post to your blog directly from Facebook, and access much of your blog content from Facebook as well.”

Liberal Democratic party leader “Vladimir Zhirinovsky said Russia should expel 12 British diplomats and all British journalists in the country, telling one: “You are all agents for MI-6.’”