Here is what I’ve been scanning today whilst getting my head around validation paperwork

The FT newsroom in 2009 – The FT release a document outlining what they are going to do next in their newsroom I predict a lot of newspaper execs getting their assistants to download this.
FT Newsroom 2009 changes – More [...]

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The big read today, for everyone, has been Clay Shirky’s essay on thinking the unthinkable . A more cogent discussion of the issues around newspapers would be hard to find. Lots chimed with me and to pick one part to quote kind-of defeats the structure of the piece. So worth a read though.
Round and round [...]

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Here isa lost of things that have caught my eye over the last week or so:

Digital Diversity: bloggers and polymaths « Running, jumping, climbing trees… – Peter Moor offers his “five attributes that I think an ambitious blogger would do well to have”
MediaPost Publications Moving From Interruption To Involvement 03/11/2009 – More video marketing guidence [...]

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Here is what made it past the ‘mark all as read’ of the weekend:

Swedish newspaper trials article on Pirate Bay – Interesting, Very Interesting
The 10 questions I ask myself before I publish any blog post « These Digital Times – ” used to publish my blog posts immediately after writing them. Now I write, save, [...]

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Here is what I’ve been reading today

PLEASE STAND BY: There’s nothing worse than a reformed smoker – except Twitter evangelists – Another angle on the whole twitter thing from Iain Hepburn. “with the amount of almost over-enthusiastic shilling of the service going on, it’s tempting to rename it Bleater.”
Headlines and Deadlines: The Year of [...]

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Today I have mostly been reading

Motorway camera map – JP’s deal with the highways agency produces a neat little map. The next step is to make it mobile friendly and I think this could attract quite a bit of ad revenue.
New York Times lets users build things with its content (open API) | Online Journalism [...]

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Here is what I cast my eye over at the weekend:

Five barriers to journalists using Twitter – Sarah Hartley has a great list of barriers – and rebuttals – to the twitter question. My personal fave is number 3. “I don’t have the time. Your competitors have found time.”
The Public Editor – A Balancing Act [...]

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This is what’s been turning my head today:
Special mention to a series of posts by Sam Shepherd responding to Roy Greenslade’s “no reason for subs” thoughts

Subs v Greenslade (part one) « Subbed Out? – “to write off every sub outside London (and every sub that doesn’t work for a tabloid) as non-creative, a purely mechanical [...]

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