links for 2007-06-08
Friday, 8 June 2007, 13:24
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Dan Gillmor takes on the “misguided charge that search engines are somehow pirating newspapers’ work” and the criticism that most blogging is not journalism: “So what? Neither is most writing on paper, most photography, most video or most anything else.”
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Martin Moore after receiving a call from Precious Williams about the Maily on Sunday’s retracted Jon Snow stories: “It isn’t tenable for a news organisation to admit it got something so completely wrong but not explain how or why.”
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“Journalists don’t need to learn how to code if all you think journalism can be is words/pictures/video.”
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Kevein Maguire complains that the G8 press centre (five miles from the summit Heiligendamm and outside the security barrier) has everything, “except what we value most: hard information.”
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President of the German Newspaper Publishers’ Assn (BDZV): UGC is not journalism, “citizen journalism” is a misnomer, and calling for submissions of celebrity cameraphone-pics can lead to papers encouraging “collective paparazzidom”.
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“Our May 30 story headed ‘Uuurrgh! My Corgi kebab is a bit ruff’ said that Yoko Ono was on a radio show and ‘tasted’ dog meat … The report, which was filed to us by several leading press agencies was wholly wrong…”
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The BBC is looking for contributions for its How We Built Britain Photosynth project by encouraging people to upload their images to Flickr.
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“The BBC is using Microsoft’s Photosynth 3D imaging software to provide views of prominent British buildings in conjunction with a new TV show, How We Built Britain.”
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