links for 2007-03-07

Wednesday, 7 March 2007, 12:22

• Doc Searls: Giant Zero Journalism
  “‘Content’ is inert. It isn’t alive. It doesn’t grow, or catch fire, or go viral. Ideas and insights do that. Interesting facts do that.”
  (tags: journalism media online internet)
• Online Journalism Blog: Online Journalism students go live
  Paul Bradshaw’s students at UCE Birmingham are running a local news web site — and producing blogs to explain what they are doing.
  (tags: journalism education blogs transparency local hyperlocal birmingham)
• Alan Rusbridger: Common sense won the day
  “From the Pentagon Papers to Thalidomide, from Spycatcher to cash for honours politicians have persistently tried to revive the use of the law to gag reporters pursuing legitimate stories about public life.”
  (tags: guardian injunctions media law newspapers journalim)
• Howard Owens: Trying to find meaningful newspaper.com metrics
  Lisa Snedeker writes in MediaLife: “the other problem newspapers face is coming up with a metric to replace circulation that combines print and online readership in a manner that advertisers can understand and work with.”
  (tags: audience internet measurement newspapers metrics circulation)
• Heather Hopkins: Competition 2.0 – Who Are Print Media Websites Competiting With Online? News & Media Post 2 of 3
  This post … “looks at the changing landscape of competitors online, going beyond the competition presented to ad sales by classifieds providers to look at the where consumers are turning for their news.”
  (tags: hitwise newspapers online journalism audience trends metrics)
• Invisible Inkling: Every newspaper’s killer app is going to be different
  Ryan Sholin: “Every newspaper’s push into online innovation (Multimedia, Interactivity, Data) is going to be different, based on its resources (time, money, staff) and community (size, age, attitude).”
  (tags: innovation newspapers multimedia interactivity data online journalism)
• BuzzMachine: At 18 Doughty Street
  Jeff Jarvis: 18 Doughty Street is “about to expand into America with a deal to use the Arlington, Virginia, studios of the Leadership Institute, and an offer to use the Heritage Foundation’s satellites.”
  (tags: 18ds bloggers blogging video online)
• Daily Mail: Stop this assault on the right to know
  Lord Falconer’s “But his true aim – motivated, many feel, by his Government’s hatred of the Press – is to curb this new-found freedom.”
  (tags: foi foia fees newspapers dca journalism)

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