links for 2006-12-31
Sunday, 31 December 2006, 12:26
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(Not exactly work-safe) Some of the Sun’s failed Page 3 Idol contestants are now “keeping their modelling dreams alive” with a “saucy calender” being promoted on MySun.
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No wonder the government is worried about the cost of FOI requests. It’s led to one of those infamous public sector IT projects: Hampshire police bought a £47,000 software package to help them respond to FOI requests. But then it didn’t work.
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“ACAP is a protocol that is intended to transmit permissions information to be read by search engines. There were supposed to be pilots announced for by the end of 2006 but so far nothing.”
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A global gallery of front pages covering Saddam Hussein’s execution.
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“Radio broadcasts on medium wave will end within a few years if a powerful coalition of commercial radio interests has its way.”
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Wired predicted that a major newspaper will cease print publication in 2007. Not likely, say some people who understand media economics better.
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Paul Brown, the civil servant who keeps the “Grid’ diary that lists Government events, received an OBE in the New Year’s honours list.
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“The first images of the hanging began trickling onto CNN and other cable news shows just before 4 a.m.”
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Scott Karp predicts a “major print publication” will cease publishing in print in 2007. “The real tipping point,” he writes, “will happen when a publisher convinces top advertisers to value ads on the web-only pub as much (or nearly as much) as they valued the (overpriced) print ads.”
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“As expected, there’s already video of Saddam’s hanging — I mean the actual death — online. … [M]mainstream news editors can no longer expect to be the sole arbiters of taste when it comes to what the public sees in events like this.”
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“Ali Al Massedy was 3 feet away from Saddam Hussein when he died. The 38 year old, normally Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s official videographer, was the man responsible for filming the late dictator’s execution at dawn on Saturday.”
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A Wales on Sunday FOI request shows that officials from Environment Agency Wales “have taken 60 gas-guzzling domestic flights in the last year” while “at the same time as urging everyone else to use other means of transport”.
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“Prison authorities in Northern Ireland destroyed 52,382 files in the months before the Freedom of Information Act was introduced.”
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The 2007 prediction by Wired and Scott Karp may not take long to materialise: Swedish newspaper Post-och Inrikes Tidningar, which been published for 361 years,ill only be available as an online publication as on 1 January.
Update: Jeff Jarvis intervenes in the debate about the prediction that a major publication will go online-only in 2007. Also on Buzzmachine, Virgin Radio’s James Cridland comments on the death of AM radio in the UK.
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