Ben Goldacre: If you don’t link to primary sources, you are dead to me
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:41
Ben Goldacre: "If you don't link to primary sources, you are dead to me, I do not trust you. There is a high risk that you chose not to link it, because you're hiding something"
Bad Science: Why don’t journalists link to primary sources?
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:40
Ben Goldacre: "Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Whether it’s a press release, an academic journal article, a formal report, or perhaps (if everyone’s feeling brave) the full transcript of an interview, the primary source contai…
SF Weekly: Britain’s Daily Mail Rips Off SF Weekly Cover Story
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 11:32
The SF Weekly accuses the Daily Mail website of churnalism and poor attribution after the tabloid's site rehashed one of its stories: "There is absolutely no original reporting in the entire Daily Mail piece. Apparently the reporter thought …
Wired UK: The ‘interestingness curators’ of social news
Friday, 3 December 2010, 10:35
David Rowan: "Welcome to the new era of social curation. We're drowning in data … we all need a little help in smartly filtering which of those unmediated news items matter to us. And though I'd love to think that, as a professional magazine editor, I know what's right for you, I'm honest enough to admit that your social network understands your interests better than I do."
Business Insider: Check Out The New Easter Egg On The New York Times Site
Wednesday, 1 December 2010, 14:25
NYtimes.com quietly implements Dave Winer's idea for paragraph-level links: "if you're reading an article, and press shift twice in a row, paragraph symbols show up at the beginning of each paragraph."
New York Times: An iPad Newspaper From News Corp
Tuesday, 23 November 2010, 15:11
How quaint. "The Daily … will be produced into the evening, and then a button will be pushed and it will be 'printed' for the next morning. There will be updates — the number of which is still under discussion — but not at the velocity or with the urgency of a news Web site. … And at a time when the ecosystem of news is driven by links, The Daily will have no inbound links from other sites, and nothing outbound either…"
Wordyard: In Defense of Links, part three: In links we trust
Friday, 3 September 2010, 09:16
Scott Rosenberg: "Links announce our presence. They show a writer’s work. They are badges of honesty, inviting readers to check that work. They demonstrate fairness. They can be simple gestures of communication; they can be complex signifiers of meaning. They make connections between things. They add coherence. They build context."
currybetdotnet: 5 ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages
Monday, 9 August 2010, 10:24
About the "5 different ways that The Guardian puts external links onto web pages."
psmith, journalist: Link to the past: why do journalists still not link to each other?
Thursday, 5 August 2010, 10:15
"Content management systems in some newsrooms make such a simple thing a Big Deal, something only one or two people in the organisation can do…. But for the national newspapers and magazines, in the majortiy of cases they have no such excuse and the fact is that many simply choose not to send readers elsewhere. We’re the best, our readers love us, why would anyone go anywhere else?"
Press Gazette: The Times website: Thanks for the free log-in, here’s five ways to make it better
Tuesday, 6 July 2010, 13:15
Dominic Ponsford suggests five improvements to the new Times website. Spot on, every one of them: Add RSS; allow search by journalist'; add email breaking news alerts; add in-line links; and be more interactive.
Nieman Journalism Lab: Making connections: How major news organizations talk about links
Monday, 14 June 2010, 09:35
"technical issues are definitely a barrier, and staff from several newsrooms told me that their print-era content management systems don’t handle links well. There’s also no standard format for filing a story with hyperlinks — copy might be drafted in Microsoft Word, but links are unlikely to survive being repeatedly emailed, cut and pasted, and squeeze through any number of different systems. But technical obstacles don’t much matter if reporters don’t value links enough to write them into their stories. In conversations with staff members from various newsrooms, I’ve frequently heard that cultural issues are a barrier. When paper is seen as the primary product, adding good links feels like extra work for the reporter, rather than an essential part of the storytelling form."
BBC The Editors: BBC News linking policy
Tuesday, 8 June 2010, 15:56
Steve Herrmann: "we will, where practical, aim to tell you if [a] link is going to a subscription site. Our automated Newstracker module, for example, should be able to do this and already signals when registration is required. For in-line links in blog posts and news stories, it may be impractical to do this for reasons of space, layout or time."
Daggle: How The Mainstream Media Stole Our News Story Without Credit
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 21:01
"On Friday, I broke a tasty story about a woman suing Google, claiming bad directions caused her to get hit by a vehicle. Today, I discover our story is everywhere [including the Mail and the Sun], often with no attribution."
A VC: I Prefer Safari to Content Apps On The iPad
Tuesday, 1 June 2010, 11:46
Fred Wilson: "I've tried a few content apps on the iPad, including the much discussed Wired app. But I don't like reading content via apps on the iPad and I gravitate to the Safari browser."
