medienlese.com: Neininger von news1.ch: “Was Google macht, ist illegal”
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 15:31
A Swiss regional newspapers publisher is still arguing that Google News is illegal because it requires you to opt out if you don't want your archive to be "plundered". But their solution makes sense: News1.ch hopes to compete with Google News by pooling regional newspapers' content at the national level.
TorrentFreak: News Site Criticized for Linking to Pirate Bay Torrents
Sunday, 5 October 2008, 15:24
"The Swedish news site Nyheter24 has been criticized for including a list of most downloaded TV-shows on their site, and linking directly to the torrent detail pages on The Pirate Bay." (The direct links seem to have been removed since this was published)
MarketingWeek: Thisislondon.co.uk relaunches as Standard.co.uk
Saturday, 27 September 2008, 15:15
"Standard.co.uk, which will launch on Monday (September 29) will carry a mixture of original content, breaking news, comment and analysis, updated throughout the day."
FAZ.net: Google optimiert: Wie Verlage ihre Artikel in den Suchmaschinen ganz nach oben bringen
Sunday, 21 September 2008, 11:02
Impressive blog post summaring recent SEO efforts at German newspapers by Holger Schmidt of FAZ.
The Sun: He’s h-air Lehmann
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 15:04
The Sun has picked up the story of Jens Lehmann's helicopter flights. That'll be the story that Bildblog reported had been nicked from a local blogger by Bild….
BILDblog: “Bild”-Leserreporter wider Willen
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 14:57
The brilliant BildBlog, which keeps tabs on Germany's biggest redtop, documents a case of "unconsenting citizen journalists" at Bild. Unattributed re-reporting of bloggers' posts? Where have we heard that before?
Guardian.co.uk: Dave Hill’s London Blog: Calling London bloggers
Monday, 8 September 2008, 21:40
"[H]uge areas of London and Londoners' lives and times go unreported, unrecorded and unshared. Blogging offers the chance to fill the void. Part of this blog's mission is to nourish connections with bloggers already engaged in that adventure and to do its bit to encourage more Londoners to do the same."
kress.de: “Gießener Zeitung”: Lokaler als die Lokalzeitung erlaubt
Monday, 1 September 2008, 16:04
A free local paper in Germany, the Giessener Zeitung, is launching as a "participatory newspaper" on Wednesday. Users will be able to post their own stories on giessener-zeitung.de.
sfnblog: Google launches classifieds search in Russia
Saturday, 30 August 2008, 09:53
"Google has announced a new service for its Russian-speaking users. It would now be offering a classifieds search, collected from Russian-language sites, reported Lenta.ru Friday."
AFP: News Blind Frenchman fined for drunk driving
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 07:04
"A blind journalist was given a month's suspended jail sentence and fined €500 by a French court Friday for driving while drunk and without a license." (HT: Craig McGinty)
BusinessWeek: Where Newspapers Are Thriving
Saturday, 16 August 2008, 08:19
"Germany's papers are doing fine despite the ad flight to the Web. What's their secret?"
Moscow Times: Conflict opens front in the media
Monday, 11 August 2008, 19:23
Ex-Russia Today reporter William Dunbar: “The real news, the real facts of the matter, didn't conform to what they were trying to report, and therefore, they wouldn't let me report it. I felt that I had no choice but to resign.”
BBC: Pods and Blogs: South Ossetia in social media
Saturday, 9 August 2008, 13:52
Chris Vallance highlights where to find coverage of the conflict in Georgia on social media sites.
Dave Lee: Russia goes to war. Important? Not if you ask the BBC
Friday, 8 August 2008, 15:55
BBC News website, but only the UK edition, seems to be the only major UK news website not leading on Russia-Georgia this afternoon.
