links for 2007-01-14
Sunday, 14 January 2007, 12:26
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Jason Calacanis of Weblogs, Inc claims Engadget had “nearly 10 million page views” on the day of the iPhone announcement - ten times their normal traffic of about 1m page views.
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“WikiLeaks will exploit an anonymising protocol known as The Onion Router (Tor), which routes data through a network of servers that use cryptography to hide the path that the packets took” It hopes to launch next month.
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Derek Willis, who is joining WashingtonPost.com as database editor, says the web is the best medium for publishing computer-assisted reporting stories because of “the ability to customize or personalize and the luxury of designing a database so that it wi
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“We’ve spent a lot of time, post-Enron, criticizing the flaws in the investment community’s gatekeeping activities. But I think we should also recognize what the Enron case tells us about the value of newspaper journalism.”
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Peter Stothard guest blogging on the POLIS blog, takes up Malcolm Gladwell’s thesis: “We hacks are trained, it seems, to solve puzzles but not mysteries, a grander art altogether.”
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More RFID-based advertising…
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“Adam Boulton who has been elected unopposed as Chairman of the Parliamentary Lobby Journalists”
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A former Hewlett-Packard private investigator is expected to plead guilty today to federal charges that he posed as a reporter to get phone records for the company’s internal investigation of boardroom leaks.
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Jeff Jarvis on the Telegraph’s blogging situation: I’d think that would be rather a perfect case for blogging: transparently revealing the process of news, especially when it makes a wrong turn.”
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At a UN press conference, a BBC Afrique journalist insisted that new SG Ban Ki-moon answer a question in French. “France has required all UN secretaries-general to speak French, and Mr Ban has been plugging away at French lessons for the past year.”
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BBC director general Mark Thompson talks to the New York Times: “Everyone [at Merton College, Oxford] was applying to the BBC. I thought I would do that, too. I almost applied as an afterthought.”
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David Dunkley Gyimah’s film about regional newspaper jounralists being trained to shoot view is now available online.
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