links for 2006-12-23

Saturday, 23 December 2006, 12:24

• Your Right to Know: Standing before the Information Tribunal
  Heather Brooke and the Guardian bring their Freedom of Information Act case against the BBC to the Information Tribunal.
  (tags: foia bbc guardian informationcommissioner informationtribunal)
• 0725 to Paddington: Power and Influence
  Tomos Livingstone of the Western Mail reports on a Press Gazette FOIA request to the BBC, which gets six copies of his paper — “a whopping three times as many copies as the Glasgow Herald and six times as many Yorkshire Posts, Birmingham Posts and Irish
  (tags: foia press_gazette bbc newspapers wales scotland ireland)
• My Heart’s in Accra: He’s dead. Good.
  Ethan Zuckerman speaks ill of the recently-departed Saparmurat Niyazov. A fitting “eulogy” for the deceased dictator Turkmenbashi.
  (tags: turkmenistan press_freedom)
• Eat the Press: The Paper Of (Mostly On The) Record: NYT Runs “Classified” Op-Ed Covered With Blacked-Out Redactions
  The New York Times has run a redacted version of a comment piece by a former CIA offcial. The CIA had cleared the copy but the White House insisted that some portions remain classified.
  (tags: nytimes censorship usa politics press_freedom)
• Techdirt: Nature Shuts Down Open Wikipedia-Like Peer Review
  If you build it, they won’t necessarily come.
  (tags: nature wikis)
• Mico Persuasion: America’s New Digital Divide
  In the United States broadband penetration has reached 75% of online
  (tags: broadband rss web2.0 usa)
• Micro Persuasion: Moolah is Largely What Separates Citizen’s Media from Mainstream Media
  Steve Rubel asks “where does citizen media end and mainstream media begin” — and suggests that blogs whose authors make most of their money from them should be considered MSM.
  (tags: blogs citizenjournalism citizenmedia journalism)

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