links for 2007-03-06
Tuesday, 6 March 2007, 12:22
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The Times has a list of 59 “intriguing facts disinterred by the Freedom of Information Act.”
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Warren Buffett: “Simply put, if cable and satellite broadcasting, as well as the Internet, had come along first, newspapers as we know them probably would never have existed.”
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Good question from Lloyd Shepherd: “what is the impact of all this mashing up and aggregating and reworking going to be on server loads and bandwidth capacities and the like?”
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The man with the shiny new job title beat me to the post about British vs. American journalism that I’ve been mulling all day, having followed the same links … good stuff. It’s a big country without national papers, you know.
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Jeff Jarvis, currently somewhere ’round here, provides the flip side of the US-UK journalism issue: Does the intense competition in Britain lead to sensationalism?
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The Spokesman Review in Spokane, Washington, is webcasting its editorial board’s meetings with political candidates.
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Craig Silverman: “From now on, corrections for any mistaken reporting by ESPN can be found here. A link to the corrections page appears prominently on the drop-down “ESPN” tab on the site, and readers can easily submit a correction using a form on the
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Mark Potts isn’t impressed with USAToday.com’s relaunch: “The home page is a mess: It looks like it was laid out with a shotgun.”
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Scott Karp: “Could it be that it’s really the social media revolutionaries who ‘don’t get it’ when they assume that what the people want is to rise up against the media autocracy and take control, when in fact what most people want is to get high qual
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Michael Rosenblum has a great line in a great post on the economics of news in 1815, and today: “Pigeons. Cutting edge technology delivering the news faster and better than anyone else. Pmail.”
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Oh, really: “Editorial Intelligence’s next tasks are to pin down and profile the blogging commentariat”
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“CNN just fired one of their interns for posting about her job on a blog. On a password-protected, closed-membership blog.”
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Pods and Blogs interviews BBC Director of Future Media and Technology Ashley Highfield about the YouTube deal. There’s also lots of interesting stuff about the politics behind the BBC iPlayer, which is due to launch later this year.
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