links for 2007-08-01

“[S]pecialist producers are not downhearted at the demise of [BT] Movio, as other forms of mobile video content are providing hope and revenues.”

Richmond on Fisk’s outburst: “‘Robert,’ a brave sub editor might have said, ‘the internet is just a means of transferring data. It can’t be responsible or irresponsible.’”

“It’s the silly season and the media are more interested in the threat of Great White sharks off Cornwall than they are geopolitics and Russian missiles.”

Seamus McCauley: “For news consumers, news fulfils a number of discrete functions that traditionally happen to be packaged up as a newspaper or broadcast. … “

Jeff Jarvis: “I would have thrown another requirement on Project Red Stripe or any media company’s innovation incubator: that they start a sustainable — that is, profitable — business.”

Banks are denying access to Facebook “because of concerns employees spend too much time on it, Financial News reported. Still, nearly 20 percent of Goldman’s employees are members of the Goldman-only network on Facebook, the publication said.”

Lauren Rich Fine on the Dow Jones deal: “Newspapers need to reinvent themselves both online and off and accept that future returns will be much lower. Difficult decisions need to be made such as acknowledging that a paper can’t be everything to everyone.”

“Mike Soutar’s new free men’s magazine, codenamed Alpha One, is to be called ShortList and will hit the streets on Thursday 20 September, Media Week can reveal.”

“Everything from detergent to computer discs is packaged with the Sunday newspaper. So why not Bibles?”

“Denis O’Brien has raised his stake in Independent News & Media … to 9.08 [per cent]“

Robin ‘Roblimo’ Miller, editor in chief for OSTG, owner of Slashdot, NewsForge, freshmeat, Linux.com, SourceForge.net, and the ecommerce site ThinkGeek, looks at how newspapers can turn their “brand recognition into local online information dominance.”

CSM correspondent Nicholas Blanford recounts his night in a Lebanese military jail following an encounter with Hizbulla. (Nice embedded audio, too)

The Desert Sun site from Palm Springs, California is one of the first sites to get the facelift [being rolled out to Gannett sites in the US]

Bob Spink: To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport if he will make it his policy to request the BBC to publish the Balen report. James Purnell: No. The decision on whether to release the Balen report is a matter for the BBC.