These are my links for September 23rd through March 16th:

• Demand Media’s content assembly line – A look under the company (and algorithm) behind the likes of ehow
• Social Media policy auto generated from PolicyTool.net – Mark Comerford auto generates a social media policy using a free online tool. If nothing else it can get the conversation started says Mark (H/T @alisongow)
• Why Wikipedia Should Be Trusted As A Breaking News Source – quot;a good, trustworthy source for contextual news and informationquot; according to wikmedia#039;s Moka Pantages. Apart from the outrageous generalisation about profs at the start it#039;s an interesting take on the shrinking gap between breaking news and news aggregation.
• Reporter tracks down convicted rapist in Switzerland – A nice example of using facebook and FOI together. New tools for new journalism. Shame the comments are the usual HTFP caliber
• BBC – About the BBC: Putting Quality First – Mark Thompson explains the recent strategic review from the BBC
• What the Times-NYU partnership says about the future of journalism education – A Qamp;A with Jay Rosen from Nieman Journalism Labs. Interesting stuff. I think that what it says about journalism education is that it#039;s nice when you get that chance and you find a commercial entity that#039;s prepared to be that uncommercial
• Magazine web versions not as well edited as print – Hints at the size of magazine staff and the resulting urge to shovelware
• Use of financial aggregators – Research from hitwise shows that Preston is #039;over represented#039; in visits to financial aggregators. In english! They look at a lot of price comparison websites!
• AP launches new multimedia unit – The Denver post reports on AP#039;s new project AP Gateway
• The Shift Newspapers Use When They Discuss "Citizen Journalism" – Dave Cohn ponders the seemingly opposite view of the audience and the media to the pros and cons of partnering with CJ networks
• Human readable linked data URIs – Martin Belam continues his look at teh way URI#039;s are constructed and the impact that has on reader and newsroom alike. Another example of the excellent work Martin does to connect the mechanics of the web and the way people consume information
• Q. and A. with Howard Owens of The Batavian – Howard Owens talks hyperlocal
• I Chose This: Why the Web Is More Personal – I#039;m not sure why it is a suprise that content that works means that people will come back. But the challenge for MSM is getting this idea to percolate and to work in their systems.
• Social Norms? Twitter Users Follow the 79/7 Rule in the U.K. | Nielsen Wire – Starting with the Pareto principle and working through a time spent metric Nielsen have come up with some interesting stats on the users of twitter.
• The Role Of Curation In Journalism – Another perspective on the google newsroom idea
• Simon Fuller’s next show will debut on Hulu – Simon Fuller, the creator of the most watched show in the US for the past eight years American Idol, will premiere his new show on Hulu.
• News after Newspapers: Predictions for 2010 – News after newspapers gets in as the first prediction of 2010 bookmarked. It ends, rather ominously with quot;news in print will be left completely in the dust.quot;
• 16 social media guidelines used by real companies – A neat round up of solid social media guideline with some useful links
• Tindle Newspapers to roll out ‘successful’ paywall to 40 titles – Paywalls pay off for this UK newspaper group
• How News Organizations Can Create a Mobile-First Strategy – Not sure how much of this is just broad statements and how much makes for a strategy but worth a read.
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Research: Yet Again, Consumers Want Something For Nothing – The methodology may be a bit weird but the stats add to the debate
• European web users stop searching after first 10 results – More than 40% of users give up checking after the first 10 search results, while 70% give up after scanning 20 search results.
• A Critique Of ‘Hulu For Magazines’ – Will it work? Won#039;t it work? Why are they even thinking about it in the first place…
• 8 Companies That Are Reinventing TV Online – Mashable takes its pick of companies that are going to take TV in to the online future
• BBC to aggregate headlines from commercial outlets – Editors Weblog – Linking in and out at the Beeb
• 8 Must-Have Traits of Tomorrow’s Journalist – Mashable have gathered some skills that are quickly becoming basic requirements for the journalist of tomorrow
• Who’d pay for content? That depends on who you ask … | Media | guardian.co.uk – I#039;m guessing that some would take the highest number some the lowest. The truth will always be quot;those who see something worth paying forquot;
• NewsNow aggregator to pull some newspaper links – Editors Weblog – The great divide begins
• NCTJ to pilot multimedia qualification across UK centres – And demand that there is no dedicated digital modules in courses at the same time….hmmm
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• 10 alternative rules for journalists covering magistrates court David Higgerson – With the help of people on Twitter, Dave Higgerson compiled the 10 alternative rules for covering magistrates courts – the things anyone, hyperlocal journalist or rookie reporter should find helpful in the quest to get the most out of court:
• A Graphic History of Newspaper Circulation Over the Last Two Decades | The Awl – quot;Every six months, the Audit Bureau of Circulations releases data about newspapers and how many people subscribe to them…So we#039;ve taken chunks of data for the major newspapers, going back to 1990, and graphed it, so you can see what#039;s actually happened to newspaper circulation.quot;
• British National Party membership list – Wikileaks host an updated version of the BNP membership list.
• What lit mag McSweeney’s could teach news orgs about the iPhone – Why aren#039;t more magazines building iphone apps
• Wikipedia for Journalists Bloggers – A great presentation that outlines how you should approach wikipedia as a journalist
• Time for journalists to update views on Wikipedia Pursuing the Complete Community Connection – Wikipedia will suggest the questions to ask not give you the answers. A very well rounded discussion of the need to change our view of wikipedia
• House of Commons computer used to hide past of Tory ally Kaminski | Politics | The Observer – One of the things that is often missed in the debate about wikipedia and trust is the fact that it is a lot more transparent than you think, you just need to know where to look. This article(one of a steady stream of this kind of thing) proves that point
• How to make interactive geographical timelines using Google Calendar and Yahoo Pipes – Nice mash-up fun from Kasper Sorenson
• How The Huffington Post uses real-time testing to write better headlines Nieman Journalism Lab – The Huff uses a system of playing stories with two headlines on a story and settling on the one that gets the most clicks. An interesting experiment and one of a number of user tweaks they seem to use
• 100 years of Big Content fearing technology-in its own words – Ars Technica – Nate Anderson puts together a compelling argument that technology doesn#039;t kill content creation.
• Cervical cancer vaccine: Please – here’s how YOU can help us inject some sense into Google’s results malcolm coles – Malcolm Coles highlights a problem with Google searches and good information. Off the back of the fact that many people still believe that Google ranks by truthfulness – this is important stuff.
• 10/GUI – Re-imagining a Desktop Touch Interface – The video outlining a new touch interface takes a while to get going but its all Minority report after that.
• An Open Letter To Derek Powazek On The Value Of SEO – Search engine land#039;s Danny Sullivan replies to Derek Powasek#039; rant against SEO
• Derek Powazek – Spammers, Evildoers, and Opportunists – Derek gets biblical on SEO. Amazing that you can get so excorsied by a term. What he says is right. SEO is now tainted. But maybe it#039;s the term we are stuck with good or bad as its practitioners can be. Like Website design or journalism.
• What I’ve learned about Hyperlocal (Scripting News) – Dave Winer talks about why his hyperlocal project, inBerkeley, didn#039;t work.
• Mugging the rich bastard lawyers | Online Journalism Blog – A blow-by-blow of the social media uprising against the gagging order against the Guardian.
• Local Media in a Postmodern World: The Process Web – The Digital Journalist – Terry Heaton writes a nice essay but it could have been written 5 years ago. Does it make it any less relevent and interesting – no. Does it get to the heart of some of the developing debates…
• Topical Versions of Local Council Websites 26 Give Us the Data and We’ll Work It For You OUseful.Info, the blog 26 – Tony Hirst blogs a request for an change to the openlylocal api (and kind of gets it) but on the way illuminates some interesting corners of the UK#039;s growing civic data scene.
• Why Facebook could be the next big news publisher | Blog | Econsultancy – The question really is why should it bother. This post, I think, confuses the capacity of a platform with the will of its users. It does highlight the issues but the honest truth is that Facebook is, for the vast majority of its users, a platform to share not create.
• A list of hot picks from the ONA conference – Reynolds Journalism Fellow Jacqui Banaszynski lists seven forecasts from the Online News Association’s annual convention
• AJC wimps out on endorsements – Alan says why he thinks newspapers/journalism should stand behind the demoratic process and not #039;wimp out#039; of endorsing candidates
• Getting my head around Digital Engagement – A nice diagram outlining how you can add value to offline events and get more engaged with your audience
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• Writing for the Web – Nice round up of Jakob Nielsen#039;s views on writing for the web