links for 2007-09-05

Wednesday, 5 September 2007, 13:21

• currybetdotnet: Introducing Chipwrapper – a UK newspaper search engine
  Martin Belham has unveiled his newspaper aggregator, Chipwrapper, “a hub for a set of tools to search news content from the UK’s major newspapers and TV news sources”.
  (tags: journalism uk rss newspapers)
• New York Times Blog: Bits: Business 2.0 RIP
  “[E]mployees of Business 2.0 magazine were told today that the monthly publication will close next week, after they finish the October issue.”
  (tags: business2.0 magazines)
• How-Do: Lancashire Telegraph launches ‘Your East Lancs’ community web sites
  Newsquest’s Lancashire Telegraph has jumped on the hyperlocal bandwagon with ‘Your East Lancs’, which covers almost 20 local communities, primarily villages.
  (tags: newsquest hyperlocal regional local newspapers lancashire lancashiretelegraph)
• Independent: ‘Sunday Telegraph’ editor quits after 18 months
  “It has been suggested that the Telegraph is moving towards a seven-day news operation, but sources at the newspaper dismissed this idea.”
  (tags: telegraph)
• SimonWaldman.net: Web 2.0 – a threat or opportunity for newspapers?
  Simon Waldman: “I think the real shift here is not about blogging versus journalism – but sheer volume of news sources available to us – and therefore the need for new tools to that improve the way that people find and engage with news and information…”
  (tags: guardian journalism newspapers online web2.0 gmg blogs google essential)
• Variety.com: German media clash over web
  German commerical online publishers don’t like the online activities of the country’s public-service broadcasters. Sound familiar?
  (tags: germany psb online ard zdf)
• MIT Technology Review: E-paper with Photonic Ink
  “Photonic crystals are being used by a Toronto startup to create commercial devices that offer better color and resolution than other flexible displays.”
  (tags: epaper)
• TrustedReviews: iRex Technologies iLiad Reader
  A review of the iRex e-reader.
  (tags: epaper irex)
• Charles Arthur: The iPod moment for newspapers won’t be good news for some parts of the papers
  The iPhone ain’t it, but when it comes, the iPod moment for newspapers will be very bad news for unpopular sections of the newspaper bundle.
  (tags: newspapers online iphone epaper)
• AOP: AOP Awards shortlist announced
  The shortlist for the Association of Online Publishers Awards 2007. Trinity Mirror gets four nominations for the Evening Gazette in Teesside. MySun and MyTelegraph both nominated.
  (tags: aop trinitymirror telegraph the_sun mysun mytelegraph)
• CJR: The (Josh) Marshall Plan
  Profile of blogger-journalist Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo
  (tags: citizenjournalism journalism blogs bloggers blogging usa politics tpm)
• Online Journalism Blog: Jobseeking site to be relaunched
  “Jobseeking journalists can add another bookmark to their browser from September 12, when Press Gazette relaunch es Jobs4Journalists.co.uk. The new site promises tailored job alerts and CV registration.”
  (tags: j4j press_gazette)

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