links for 2007-02-03

Saturday, 3 February 2007, 12:23

• Martin Moore Blog: PCC reaction not good enough
  “Sending a letter to editors asking if they have adequate controls to stop [phone screwing] happening like asking an alcoholic’s advice on temperance.”
  (tags: journalism ethics pcc privacy)
• BBC Open Secrets: Harman calls for open legal advice
  Martin Rosenbaum: “While some of her ministerial colleagues seem to be less than enthusiastic about it, Harriet Harman is proclaiming the virtues of open goverment.”
  (tags: foi foia labour politics uk)
• Virtual Economics: Scale or revenues for NYT?
  Seamus MaCauley: “The New York Times has two problems … Scale or revenues is the first… The second is how to stop their best writers… just setting up on their own.”
  (tags: nytimes online paywall journalism publishing)
• IMPACT®: Information Commissioner’s RSS feeds
  The ICO appears to have fixed its notoriously temperamental decision notice RSS feed. Good news for fellow information policy geeks.
  (tags: foi foia informationcommissioner rss)
• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Blog: On the Other Hand
  Cardiff student Dan Worth has passed his 100WPM shorthand exam. An now he’s wondering whether the effort was worth it.
  (tags: journalism education shorthand)
• Teaching Online Journalism: An idea for training multimedia journalists
  Mindy McAdams: “I think perhaps we have come to the point when a journalist should have the kind of relationship with his or her computer that a photojournalist has with the camera. It is always with you. It is always ready.”
  (tags: journalism multimedia)
• CNET News.com: Newspapers search for Web headline magic
  More coverage of news sites’ headline SEO efforts.
  (tags: newspapers headlines seo subediting online journalism)

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