links for 2007-07-07

Telegraph.co.uk’s Marcus Warren parses the New York Times’ comment moderation guidelines. One of them he describes as “borderline priggish”. Just the one?

Sky News “shows 28 year-old Mike Barnett who died from hypthermia after becoming trapped in a drain grill… Should Sky have shown this?”

“Al-Jazeera English …has … more than 20,000 US subscribers to its online service, side-stepping the cable operators whose reluctance to carry the channel overshadowed its launch last November.” US viewers are 60% of its audience. The service costs £3

Why should news organisations have community features? Kevin Anderson interviews Steve Yelvington.

Rick Waghorn’s plans have changed: “I think the way it may work is: I’ve got some funding that we use to actually pay salaried journalists to open a Sheffield bureau or a Manchester bureau rather than someone actually buying a franchise off me.”

Alfred Hermida has more about the BBC’s new approach to online video, from the ONA meetup last night. (Sorry I couldn’t make it!)

Freeads.co.uk is the fastest growing classified site in the UK according to the latest figures from Hitwise. Traffic to the site increased by 160% in the first half of 2007, outgrowing the overall classified market by more than 14 times.

Alan Johnston has been freed… and here is your replacement button

MyTelegraph after 8 weeks: “More than 4,500 people have signed up so far, though things have slowed down since the first couple of days when we were handling a new registration every three minutes.”

Boaden: “Fewer than 25% of 15- 24s watch 15 consecutive minutes of BBC News on TV in any given week. … While 16-24s are watching less TV than their counterparts in previous decades, they spend three times as long using new media than over 25s”

“Private equity houses Exponent and Barclays Private Equity are closing in on a deal to buy Trinity Mirror’s Midland newspaper titles for £160m-£180m.”

Scott Karp: “[T]here is not a publisher or media company who shouldn’t be tracking the iPhone closely. The iPhone is a window into the future of media.”

Danah Boyd’s research gets the BusinessWeek treatment. A Myspace “spokesperson says that nearly a quarter (22%) of its users earn more than $100,000.”

“Well, that didn’t take long — the hacker crew of IRC channel #iPhone has managed to enable shell access to the iPhone just a week after its release.”

David Sullivan: “The newspaper business will never be what it was before the Internet. … But then theater is not what it was before movies…. They’re all still there, though they’re different. People enjoy them. They buy tickets and go to gallerie