links for 2007-06-15

Friday, 15 June 2007, 13:21

• Editor & Publisher: Pauline Millard Becomes New ‘E&P’ Online Editor
  “She will also be writing regularly for the Web site and in a new feature offering regular picks of the best or most innovative new online features at news sites.”
  (tags: journalism online editorandpublisher)
• Multimedia Meets Radio: Why Kate Adie hates blogs
  Kate Adie tells Mike Mullane: “…journalists shouldn’t have any time to blog - there are too many stories waiting to be told!” And thinks BBC managers shouldn’t be blogging during office hours. (via Adrian Monck)
  (tags: journalism bloggers bbc blogging blogs)
• Flickr: All the news fit to ignore on
  Kevin Anderson spots a great headline from the Islington Gazette…
  (tags: journalism psycics parrots)
• New York Times: Blogger’s Ejection May Mean Suit for N.C.A.A.
  The Louisville Courier-Journal may sue the NCAA for barring its blogging reporter from a college baseball game.
  (tags: blogging journalism ncaa baseball)
• St Albans & Harpenden Review: Parking Tickets Road-by-road
  This local newspaper story is crying out for a Google Maps mashup. I’ve seen the same story done with a mapping element in a Danish paper. (Paging Simon Dickson!)
  (tags: journalism mapping mashups googlemaps foi foia)
• William M. Hartnett: Paris doing hard time compared to similar offenders
  “The [Los Angeles] Times deserves a prize simply for finding a way to use computer-assisted reporting in a story about Paris Hilton.”
  (tags: journalism car parishilton)
• Independent: Freedom Of Information: The end looks nigh for this ’squalid little Bill’
  “Robert Verkaik, Law Editor, welcomes a second [Private Members] Bill which could make the [Freedom of Information Act] stronger.” Too bad it has a snowball’s chance in hell…
  (tags: foi foia parliament foiamendment2)
• Mashable: YouTube Testing New Beta Design, Bigger Player
  (tags: youtube video)
• Gawker: Do You Have What It Takes To Be The Next TVNewser?
  “Now that 21-year-old Brian Stelter has gone off to … the New York Times, Mediabistro’s looking for a new blogger to take his place on TVNewser.”
  (tags: mediabistro bloggers blogs journalism)
• Engadget Mobile: iPhone to make do without Flash?
  A rumour that iPhone won’t support Flash comes “just days after the latest iPhone commercial depicted a happy, errorless loading of the New York Times’ Flash-enabled site “
  (tags: iphone flash nytimes)
• Christian Science Monitor: Peer-to-peer book reviews fill a niche
  “Social-networking websites that connect people through their taste in literature are gaining in popularity – and publishers are starting to take notice.”
  (tags: p2p books reviews)
• Gawker: Things From England: U.K. ‘Mail’ Readers Much Worse Than ‘New York Post’ Readers
  Wow. New York gossip blog Gawker absolutely trashes the Mail on Sunday for its cinema ad. (via Andy Dickinson)
  (tags: daily_mail mail_on_sunday newspapers journalism)

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