links for 2007-01-17
Wednesday, 17 January 2007, 12:25
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The US now has something similar to the UK’s old 30-year-rule. 400m classified documents in the National Archive are now technically public. But there’s a catch…
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The BBC College of Journalism web site launched last night, but is currenlty only visible within the BBC.
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The House of Commons could be forced to release a more detailed breakdown of MPs’ travel expenses after losing an FOIA appeal at the Information Tribunal.
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Lincoln journalism student Dave Lee gets it: “Words are words. They take just as long to write, and are just as valuable, whether they are destined for paper or web.”
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Paul Linford looks at the spat between two of Britain’s biggest political bloggers, Guido Fawkes and Tim Ireland.
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“In an important new marketing twist newsstand buyers of the Wall Street Journal Europe (WSJE) newspaper are now being given free access to the web site just like subscribers.”
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Journalism student David Cohn looks at his own use of the social news aggregation tool Digg: “With up to ten thousand submissions a day, Digg is a rich marketplace of story ideas for journalists looking for trends.”
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ZDNet and Business 2.0 are paying their journalists bonuses based on the traffic they generate on their blogs. Is this really as ethically dubious as some commentators have suggested?
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“Terrorists attacking British bases in Basra are using aerial footage displayed by the Google Earth internet tool to pinpoint their attacks, say Army intelligence sources.”
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“Axel Springer AG, Europe’s largest and most successful newspaper publisher, founded the Axel Springer Akademie on 1 January 2007.”
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Katja Riefler looks at Wikio, the new, Luxembourg-based European news aggregator site.
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