This is some of the stuff that’s crossed my eyes between  October 10th through October 14th:

• The Public Domain Mark – Creative Commons – Creative Commons announces the release of its Public Domain Mark, a tool that enables works free of known copyright restrictions to be labeled in a way that allows them to be easily discovered over the Internet.
• Real-Time News Curation, Newsmastering And Newsradars – The Complete Guide – Robin Good has a multipart series on news curation and it’s, well, Good!
• Poll: When should you retweet the competition? – Lost Remote – “When (if ever) should a news organization retweet something from a competing news organization?” aks lost remote. The results are an excellent example of the ‘polite to your face, rude to your back’ school of linking
• Kinetic typography as a storytelling technique – If you’re asking “What the hell is that” then this post, with great examples is for you.
• BBC adopts thoughtful guidelines on social media | Reportr.net – Alf thinks that the new approach to social media ” is a tacit acknowledgement that different social media sites and services have their own rules and patterns of behaviour. The BBC is essentially a guest in these spaces.”
• Tips & Tricks: Sharing Google Docs Like a Pro – Official Google Docs Blog – “We’ve explained our new sharing model before, but, in recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness month, we want to make sure you’re aware of your options for sharing your documents.”
• Blogging and Journalism; Form and Function – One Man and His Blog – “the most common category error I see around blogging and journalism is hacks shoving straight inverted pyramid, 350 word news stories (or opinion pieces) into a blog and calling it blogging.”
• Manchester police tweets – live data visualisation by the MEN | Online Journalism Blog – Paul highlights the MEN quick and dirty visulisation of Greater Manchester Police, day long, tweet
• Data, journalism and your career | Knight Digital Media Center Weblog – Is data boring? Not according to Jerry Monti
• Local newspaper data journalism – school admissions in Birmingham – Paul Bradshaw picks up a great example of local data journalism from the Birmingham mail picked up

• Web Journalism’s rules of tech engagement – I really like the list but I’m not sure that we it moves anything on. It’s kind of assumes that journalism is some how resistant to technology. One informs the other and the ‘basic j101′ argument suggest that it stands alone. Do we need to be less ‘basic’?
• Chilean miners trapped in San Jose mine: infographic – Telegraph – A neat, visual, story.
• Growth of a meme: how a mobile lawsuits visualisation evolved | Technology | guardian.co.uk – “Started by the New York Times, knife-and-forked by @charlesarthur, then made increasingly beautiful by graphic designers: how the view of the patents bunfight improved
• My top ten data.gov.uk datasets – Guardian Data blog guru Simon Rogers picks his favorite data sets at data.gov.uk
• Newsrooms vs. the Volcano – Suw Charman-Anderson develops her thoughts on from a comment she left on Charlie Becketts radio post and goes on to round up a lot of the great Eyjafjallajökull coverage
• Think Audio Networking, not Radio: debating networked journalism – Charlie Beckett, ponders why radio is missing the new media boat and finds that it may be the last bastion of cumudgeons.
• Export Notes out of a Keynote presentation … – You can use Automator to extract presenter notes from Keynote presentation and put them in a text file. Really handy (if only for me!)
• Press Complaints Commission >> News >> PCC research: Public concern about social networking and privacy – “42% of web users aged 16-24 know someone who has been embarrassed by information uploaded on to the internet without their consent. And 78% of the entire adult online population would change information they publish about themselves online if they thought the material would later be reproduced in the mainstream media.”
• 2010 Social Journalism Study | CisionUK – Cision Europe’s Social Journalism study conducted among UK, French and German journalists in July, underscores that Social Media have become standard tools for journalists supporting their daily workflow. Today, journalists in all three countries use Social Media to source stories as well as to promote their own work.

• Headlines and Deadlines: My First Death Knock – Alison recalls her first successful death knock
• Dead Man’s Shoes won’t save journalism – One Man and His Blog – Adam thinks “Greg Hadfield was spot on when suggested that editors need to assert themselves more over the commercial and technological sides of the business – but there’s a caveat with that. They do need to surround themselves with people who do understand the digital environment, and trust their advice. In essence, they need to trust in their own judgement on news values, but be prepared to see those expressed in wholly new ways by those who report to them”
• My Twitter Community Grabbing Code – newt.py « OUseful.Info, the blog… – Code to help generate all kinds of cool stuff with Twitter
• Yahoo Pipes Code Generator (Python) « OUseful.Info, the blog… – Convert a Yahoo pipe to Python.
• comScore: Facebook Passes Yahoo To Become The Second Largest Video Site In The U.S. – Should you be putting your video on Facebook?
• How to Get Past the Fear of New Technology with Ushahidi | PBS – Don’t be afraid to try stuff like Ushahidi. It’s not as hard as you think
• Study: What works for hyperlocal news sites – Lost Remote – J-Lab has published a solid study that examines what works — and what doesn’t — for community and hyperlocal news sites.
• How The Guardian is pioneering data journalism with free tools » Nieman Journalism Lab -

These are my links for September 21st through September 28th:

• Jonathan Stray » Designing journalism to be used – “News can no longer be (only) about the mass update. Stories need to be targeted to those who might be able to improve the situation. And journalism’s products — which are more than its stories — must be designed to facilitate this.”
• MSN Spaces Closing, becomes WP.com — Matt Mullenweg – Windows Live (formerly MSN) Spaces is shutting down and migrating their 30m+ users to WordPress.com. Four years ago I was fairly worried as every internet giant (Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google) had a hosted blogging service. Now only Blogger remains, and is firmly in our sights.
• Social Media Metrics – “The social media metric that I think does matter and that is difficult to fully qualify is sentiment: the positive or negative mentions of a brand, product, service, whatever.”
• Georgie Anne Geyer: The cyber future of reporting, delivering, packaging news – news-herald.com – “When the term “citizen-journalist” was being batted around the conversation — average citizens, anywhere, using their phone cameras to send in photos and comments — this lady was miffed. “I object to citizen-journalist,” she said in sardonic tones. “I surely wouldn’t want to be operated on by a citizen-doctor. And I doubt that people are more connected in this way — probably they are less so.”" YAWN
• Nick Davies: Data, crowdsourcing and the ‘immeasurable confusion’ around Julian Assange | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog – Investigative journalist Nick Davies chipped in with his thoughts on crowdsourcing data analysis by news organisations at this week’s Frontline Club event. (You can listen to a podcast featuring the panellists
• @WebJournalist Robert Hernandez: Geolocation Is Going To Grow | Neon Tommy – “Geolocation is definitely going to grow. Foursquare is the biggest one besides Facebook Places and they’re just over a million users. Twitter is 100 million. But Facebook is 500 million. There’s a lot of folks competeing for that. ”
• 500 Internal Server Error – 500 Internal Server Error
• How can hyperlocals and the mainstream media work better together? « Sarah Hartley – Sarah crowdsources for areas of interest for a presentation to local sites and bloggers. It raises some interesting comments.
• The Newsonomics of Apple’s “digital circulation” share » Nieman Journalism Lab – “Those 40 percent (of total U.S. music sales) and 28 percent (Apple’s share of overall music sales) numbers are ones to note. If they held true for news reading, then by 2017, we can be assured of one thing: Apple’s share of news “circulation” revenue would be mind-bending.”
• Which is better for video: iPhone 4 or Flip Ultra HD? – “… the final verdict for mojos? The Flip does take better video. But without a truly mobile way to edit and transmit the video back to the office, the iPhone is by far the better choice.”
• Mediating Conflict: BBC’s cricket correspondent hits blog comments for six – “There seems to be something of a backlash against the value of comments on blogs at the BBC. Or perhaps it might be more accurate to say that existing reservations about comments on blogs are beginning to surface.”
• What impact is SEO having on journalists? Reports from the field » Nieman Journalism Lab – Metrics can be good for journalism and for journalists; it just takes putting aside the fear of the now to think about future strategies for building good content that will keep readers coming back. As I’ve said before, good content and high readership levels are not mutually exclusive: good stories will be found, and SEO can help.
• Online Vs. Print: Reloaded – In Germany “Print works, online is still not recognized as a separate medium or journalistic context.”
• What’s in a journalism job ad? Analysing the skills required by employers | Journalism.co.uk Editors’ Blog – What requirements and skills are employers stipulating and which are the most popular? Laure Oliver turns to Wordle for a quick answer.

• Max Cutler – What is a (news) CMS? – Thanks to @foodiesarah for pointing me to this post that explains just what a news cms is.
• Twitter Journalism » Tips For “Live Tweeting” An Event – “The event itself, whether it be a court trial, sporting event, press conference, or some sort of breaking news, does not matter much. The basics are pretty much the same. Here’s some tips”
• The BBC and missed data journalism opportunities | Online Journalism Blog – “I’ve tweeted a couple of times recently about frustrations with BBC stories that are based on data but treat it poorly. As any journalist knows, two occasions of anything in close proximity warrants an overreaction about a “worrying trend”. ” And here is Pauls view
• Lessons from the BBC on online video that works | Reportr.net – A pointer to the recent Brave News Worlds: Navigating the New Media Landscape report with some interesting snippets for video enthusiast.
• The H1 Zoom – A review of the H1 Zoom by Gernan video journalist Roman Mischel
• University of Central Lancashire heads student magazine awards shortlist – Some rampant departmental promotion.”The University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) has received nine nominations in the shortlist for this year’s Magazine Academy awards.”
• My Henry Stewart talk about ‘Blogging, Twitter and Journalism’ | Online Journalism Blog – Paul Bradshaw has recorded a 48 minute presentation covering ‘Blogging, Twitter and Journalism‘ for the Henry Stewart series of talks. It’s designed for journalism students. Well worth a listen
• The still-evolving Newsonomics of digital transition » Nieman Journalism Lab – Ken Doctor does some maths – “Start with 60 percent. That’s the rough percentage of costs that might come out of an enterprise, as print production, printing, circulation and distribution expenses, along with those jobs, were eliminated. The 40 percent or so remaining? Figure about 20 percent of costs are newsroom, and 10-15 percent are ad sales. Add in a reduced (from print heyday) number of finance, HR, marketing and management jobs. As one publisher told me: “There are still way too many managers around, managing lots fewer people and lots less money.” (thanks to @agranado)
• When crowdsourcing is your only option | Online Journalism Blog – “PriceOfWeed.com is a great example of when you need to turn to crowdsourcing to obtain data for your journalism”
• Beware, journalists: Apple is not your friend | yelvington.com – A prime piece of link/apple fanboy baiting. Yelvington almost hits the point – ok apple et al may be sociapthic physcopathic organisations but they don’t hate you. They just don’t care. That’s different from actively hating you. I think more than a little of Robert Ringer’s paranoia has slipped through

• Yeah, but what does it mean for journalism? A visual rhetoric guide » Nieman Journalism Lab – “A new gadget appears, or a dramatic development takes place on the world stage, and the cry goes up: But what does it mean for journalism?” C.W. Anderson uses wordle to get a handle on the gadgets and answers to that question over the last few years.
• MediaShift Idea Lab . 5 Mistakes That Make Local Blogs Fail | PBS – So you’re thinking about starting a local blog. Maybe you’re a reporter tired of office politics and lowest-common-denominator assignments. Maybe you’re a neighborhood gadfly who wants to create a new place for locals to gather. Maybe you’re a realtor who wants to generate new leads. Either way, your local blog, like most new things, will probably fail.
• Check-ins with a purpose: Ushahidi speaks at Hacks/Hackers | Hacks/Hackers – Interesting article for two reasons. The subject matter – Ushahidi – and the way Burt uses ‘curated’ tweets to report on the even. Maybe Amy should have had a by-line…
• The Rise Of Social Media And Its Impact On Mainstream Journalism – A very interesting paper for the Reuters Institute by Nick Newman. Fascinating stuff
• Price is right for junior journalists – Variety – Variety reports on how ABC News have found working with J-schools are rewarding experience. In all senses of the word
• Student media tip #6: symbols – More tips and free inDesign stuff from Henry Clarke Price. This time some free symbols for visualizing stats
• A First – Not Very Successful – Look at Using Ordnance Survey OpenLayers… « OUseful.Info, the blog… – “What’s the easiest way of creating a thematic map, that shows regions coloured according to some sort of measure?” Tony shows you how.
• Free Avid Media Composer Tutorials – More free tutorials from genius DV. This time it’s Avid’s turn
• The Multimedia Radio Newsroom, Part One – MVM Consulting – Michael Marcotte was asked to do “a two-hour “how to” on multimedia storytelling for public radio news managers.” Here’s what he came up with

• Online law survey: Mixed feelings about resources | media law & ethics – A cracking, very rich post on the lack of law resources for online writers.
• Journalism shouldn’t be afraid of web metrics – Martin Belam – “When I think about metrics on a news website, I wonder why, as an individual journalist who publishes articles that appear on the web, you wouldn’t want to know how many people read your piece, what percentage of them were moved to comment, who linked to it and what did they say, and all the other information that web metrics can confer.”
• Hyperlocal blogger expands into print publishing | Media | guardian.co.uk – Is this what happens when the mainstream media start a fight with a hyperlocal publisher?
• Tweeting the scanner from a breaking story – Lost Remote – “Baltimore Sun crime reporter Justin Fenton (@justin_fenton) did a great job tweeting from the scene of today’s murder-suicide at John Hopkins” But in amongst his tweets were updates based on what he heard on a scanner. Lost remote asks if this was the right thing to do..
• Baltimore Sun curates Twitter List for Hopkins shooting -A kind of follow up to the previous link:  ”Here’s a very good example of when to use Twitter Lists. The Baltimore Sun has created @BaltimoreSun/HopkinsShooting as a stream of tweets from several sources reporting on the shooting at Johns Hopkins Hospital.”
• Analyst: tablets will kill print newspapers ‘in our lifetimes’ – “Wireless analyst J. Gerry Purdy writes that the advent of digital tablets will bring about the death of the print newspaper industry “in our lifetimes”:” way to get yourself noticed. Still, I hear rumors that newspaper execs are putting all their money in to life extending research to head off the problem
• Guardian monitors the coalition agreement – “The coalition government’s agreement was signed with fanfare. But how much of its programme for government has been achieved so far? We present our comprehensive audit”
• Free Final Cut Pro Video Tutorials – A great list of free FCP tutorials. It also includes lists for other apps in the Studio suite and photoshop for FCP. V.useful
• Wanted: Better photo editing/transmission app for mobile journalists – Damon Kiesow puts down his request for a mojo photo app after reading a post on lifehacker that “focused simply on how to get photos from your camera to your iPhone or iPad.” Great stuff says Kiesow. But shouldn’t it be easier.

• What do they read? – Can looking at the most emailed, editors pick and most viewed/commented give an impression of what works online? Frédéric Filloux has a go.
• An example of Data journalism from Germany – A nice look at how Zeit Online has created a data map of right-wing related violence.
• News of the World to go behind online paywall | Media | guardian.co.uk – “News International is leading the industry by delivering on its commitment to develop new ways of making the business of news an economically exciting proposition.” Apparently!
• Newspaper Society: New law for family court will cause ‘regime of secrecy’ – “The Newspaper Society claims the Act will place more restrictions on the press and not allow for greater public confidence in the system”
• From a 15-year-old’s blog to MSM: Bleachgate and Miracle Mineral Solutions | Online Journalism Blog – “Journalists wanting evidence of the value of blogs should take a look at the ‘Bleachgate’ story which has taken a month to filter up from 15-year-old Rhys Morgan’s blog post through other skeptic and science bloggers into The Guardian.”
• HatefuI comments: is scrapping anonymous comments a solution? – The editors weblog rounds up some views on managing anonymous comments “Newspapers constantly have to walk the fine line between freedom of speech and respect for individual rights. Is it time for them to hold their website commenters to rigorous standards?”
• ProPublica launch the Nerd Blog – Propublica launch a blog for nerds and news application junkies. “So what the heck is a “news application”? It’s an interactive web page that uses software instead of words and pictures to do journalism.”

Some interesting stuff from March 21st through September 15th:

• NYU’s Jay Rosen on Rethinking J-Schools | PBS – Mark Glaser has an in-depth discussion with NYU’s Jay Rosen, who has been taking a new approach to journalism education
• Multimedia Minutes: Keeping Viewers’ Attention | Bob Kaplitz Blog – An interesting look at using youtubes insight tool to plot the ‘interesting’ parts of your video
• Playing with heat-mapping UK data on OpenHeatMap – A cracking tutorial for openheatmap from Paul Bradshaw
• What’s the law around aggregating news online? – Read this post from Nieman lab and the associated white paper and you’ll get an (US focussed) answer
• Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Magazines and Newspapers – A nice list to explore if you really want your web experience to be like your print product
• Poor Circulation: Are Newspapers Ready for Tablet’s Prime Time? – Ken Doctor ponders how newspapers can be ready for digital distribution when they can’t even get the print product to his doorstep
• Tips on embracing video and going multimedia – A look at tips on video and multimedia from the WAN-IFRA 9th International Newsroom Summit . Nothing much new but this point about multimedia was interesting – “Navigation is crucial, Wallem Fossan said, and highlighted moving through different numbered steps as a good way to get people involved. “Around 75% of users move onto the next step,”
• Meejalaw.com – media law & ethics – Judith Townend’s new site is already shaping up to be a great resource for law in a new media age.
• How brands can create a successful single purpose community – Have a clear purpose, a clear timeframe and clear guidelines. – An interesting post with some useful links
• The Journalists Formerly Known as the Media: My Advice to the Next Generation – Jay Rosen: Public Notebook – Jay adapts and expands on his Inaugural Lecture to the incoming class at Sciences Po école du journalisme in Paris. The tips are well worth looking at.
• Lessons Learned from the Crowdmap experience « Claire Wardle, PhD – A great reflection by Claire on the use of the new Ushahidicrowdmap platform. Worth a read
• Research: UK Journalism Has Cut A Third Of Its Jobs In Last Decade – After surveying trade news sites, he found 9,500 journalism job losses were reported between January 2007 and June 2009 alone. Conversely, the number of journalism university graduates has never been higher – 7,590 in 2008/09; that’s 0.60 percent of all UK graduates.
• The NCE News Practice exam: resources – Good advice for those sitting the NCE’s “Anyone revising for News Practice exams – my best advice is read the links, think about how you can apply the theory to the practical, and good luck. Oh, and know your McNae’s. Nothing can beat that.”
• TBC.com could be an inspiring approach to hyperlocal news – Alison thinks that it’s “a real foray into hyperlocal journalism and could just be one of the models the rest of us in mainstream media end up emulating”
• Revenue is the only metric that matters – “I’ve seen sites post phenomenal numbers for each of those categories, and fail. There’s one metric, and only one, that truly matters in determining your websites’s commercial success.” So says Robert Niles who also has some useful insight in to the way he maximises revenue using stats.
• “Apple of My Eye” – an iPhone 4 film – Shot and edited on an iphone4 (with a lot of grip equipments as well) this films has caught everyones eye. The video has been updated with some nice behind the scenes stuff
• Interactive Chart: Where UK Newspaper Websites Get Their Traffic | paidContent – A really interesting set of stats as to where newspapers get their online hits.
• Digital Journalist Survival Guide: A Glossary of Tech Terms You Should Know – A useful list from Poynter
• New Model Journalism – Newmodeljournalism.com provides comment and analysis of the revolution that is currently sweeping the media, changing how journalism is paid for and how it is done.
• Online Video News Consumption Doubles in 12 Months, comScore – Beet TV report that “The consumption of online video news and information clips in the U.S. has doubled over the past 12 months, to 565 million video views in May, up from 277 million last May, according to comScore”
• Free Online Journalism Classes Begin To Gain Ground – An article on Mediashift that shows what happens when journalists find ‘edupunks’

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