links for 2006-12-12

Martin Rosenbaum: “The BBC has today expressed its ‘strong opposition’ to the government’s proposed restrictions on freedom of information.”

“Trade journals and specialist publications are being edged out of the online media market by an increasingly successful wave of super blogs, according to the boss of weblog tracking index Technorati.”

Martin Belam pokes around Al Jazeera’s new English web site.

On Dave Sifry’s speech: “How is trade media doing in the link rankings? Not well. They’re disappearing down the listing ranks as niche bloggers start to gain more popularity.”

Seamus McCauley provides a contrarian view on the breathless coverage of the decision to include links to Digg, Facebook and Newsvine by the New York Times – and many other publishers.

A speech by Reuters chief executive Tom Glocer, delivered at a Tel Aviv conference on Monday.