Recently in Quick Links Category

Time to stop hogging these great links in my browser tabs and share them with the world:

• 50 Twitter conversations that journalism students might like - basically a list of useful hashtags.
• Good reading on the eBook disruption over the last year.
• Great musings about the meaning of social and sharing.
• Charles Arthur rounds up the latest journalists/bloggers spat at length. A good primer...
• A review of the Storify iPad app
• A reminder why journalists shouldn't foge about forums - just because the technophile bubble is always chasing after the new new thing doesn't mean that decades old forms of online community aren't still useful
• Research shows that attending meetings lowers IQ. That explains so very much about corporate culture...
• My new favourite Tumblr
• Gothamist gets its press pass - or another example of traditional power structure not keeping up with digital change.

I need to get back into the habit of doing these, before my MacBook collapses into a superdense mass and becomes a black hole because of all the tabs I have open in Safari.

So, um, to save the planet from being sucked into a black hole in the West Sussex area, here's some morning coffee reading for you:

• How to completely and utterly botch a blogger event.
• Some myths about the big World Economic Forum gathering in Davos debunked.
• The best summation of linking culture I've seen in a while.
• A great round-up of blogger coverage of Le Web from a month back. Great reading if you want to catch up on the latest web trends.
• Microsoft, if you stop doing embarrassing things like this, I promise to buy a Windows Phone. Deal?
• I'm not sure if this man is an enthusiastic traveller or just a terrible show-off. You decide. ;-)

• App Store - Facebook Messenger
  UK iPhone folks: Facebook Messenger is here: http://t.co/K86pzQgW
  (tags: ifttt twitter adders)
• iPad market share rises
  Rises…!
  (tags: ipad tablets android)
• One Man & His Blog | Facebook
  Getting a Facebook Page together for my blog: http://t.co/Avnsq6G
  (tags: ifttt twitter adders)
• Topman pulls shirt over domestic violence row - Adult Care Blog
  RT @ComCareFamilies: #topman t-shirt debate: does the store glamourise #domesticviolence? http://t.co/XA1kDd2
  (tags: ifttt twitter adders)
• Westfield Stratford City - what the press thought - The Focus Blog
  Westfield Stratford City - what the press thought http://j.mp/odgEtq
  (tags: ifttt twitter adders)
• Five random thoughts on mobile - One Man and His Blog
  From yesterday: Five random thoughts on mobile http://t.co/p00SItt
  (tags: ifttt twitter adders)
• Newspaper video: Time to reconsider your video strategy?
  (tags: video)

Stuff crossing my information superhighway radar this morning:

• Seven books that journalists working online should read - up to 9, with recommendations in the comments
• How I tracked down an entire family from one tweet - Joanna make s triumphant return to blogging with a concise account of how you can build good investigative journalism off the information in a single tweet.
• The New Yorker has up to 100,000 readers on iPad - difficult to tell exactly how many are making regular use of it, and I did like Leo's suggestion on yesterday's MacBreak Weekly that people feel less guilty about a pile of unread magazines on a tablet than they do about unread magazines on the floor...

And this is an interesting watch:

Anil Dash at Gel 2011 from Gel Conference on Vimeo.

For the first time in a little while, I caught the train from Shoreham-by-Sea to London for a day at Procter Street. That gave me the chance to catch up on my RSS feeds, and here's a few things of note:

• The Smartphone: our new tool for sharing experiences - I think we, as an industry, would be foolish if we underestimate the cultural shift happening around mobile devices.
• A good week for journalism, a bad week for journalism - one former colleague gives a timely reminder of the important, long-term reporting done by another. We need to talk more about the good things done by journalists at the moment...
• Have you taken the #ukjournopay study yet? - I have. You should.
• A Sobering Look at Apple - this column looked like a typical piece of anti-Apple linkbait. It made me think worse of the reborn Byte. The Byte editor, Gina Smith, apparently agreed, and has apologised for publication of the article. Wonderful transparency and directness. Love it.

Coffee from the wonderful Toast by the Coast. ;-)

Not really had much to say on this, beyond what I said back when it was all about Trafigura. But here are some interesting links that have crossed my radar:

• Charlie Beckett gives us a quick take on the key issues, as he sees them.
• Roy Greenslade notes the strange way this has become mainstream news some time after the event
• Malcolm Coles notes the national newspaper stories flying close to the injunction wind
• Jon Slattery reports on reports that more regulation of social networks may be doomed to failure on its way

Any other links people would like to recommend?

Because sometimes, you just have to get those tabs out of that browser:

• Idio and The Guardian partner to develop content delivery service - I'm convinced we should be doing more combination curated and algorithmic aggregation and discovery. Content is no longer rare. Selection of that content is.
• In a glass house, throwing stones? - Alison weighs in on the "is a journalism degree worthwhile?" debate started by Kelvin MacKenzie. Like her, I don't have a journalism qualification. But unlike her, I never worked in regional newspapers. There have always been many routes into journalism.
• Five myths about the future of journalism - point three is the one I'm most interested in right now.
• The front page isn't what it used to be - I've seen this clearly in our metrics. Front pages of websites just don't really matter.
• Tweet late, e-mail early and don't forget about Saturday - some thoughts about how to share content, and when, for maximum impact. And by thoughts I mean "research".

The tabs in my browser were getting out of hand. Time for a link dump:

• Is Twitter more media than social? Interesting. I suspect that there's lots of research to be done on different communities and their use of the Twitter.
• What are the problems in covering demos live? The limits of technology in a crowded protest - Martin has covered similar territory
• Don't blame the media if your demo doesn't work - quick, but still insightful, analysis of the coverage of last weekend's protest. I really want to blog about it, but not sure I can face the likely reaction.
• Journalists must set the tone for their communities - Kevin argues that journalists need to accept more responsibility for shaping the behaviour of their commenting communities. Damn right they do - too many journalists just can't make the connection between the way they report and the reaction it garners
• Invest time and effort to attract "the right kind" of contributors - another riff on the theme

Time for some links:

• One of the most consistent themes I hear when talking to journalists around the country is frustration with the web publishing CMS they have to deal with (especially if they've ever used any blog platform). In that light, this post about the BBC's new web CMS makes for fascinating reading, both through what they're doing and through the fact they blogged about it publically. I suspect that a culture that allows such blogging is laikely to produce a better piece of kit...
• Another trend I see amongst some journalists is an almost obsessive pride in not understanding technology. Kevin makes an interesting case for a more data-centric view of journalism that should give pause to such folks.
• Martin's look at how well (or more often, not) digital coverage of the World Cup has survived down the years is thought-provoking. There's a surprising amount of value in them there archives...
• And Nature's using OpenSocial. I'm very interested in this, and you're probably not, but it's my blog so "nyah".

Some links about our friends in the nationals that have been hanging around in my Chrome tabs for too long now:

• The Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress. Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit.
• The Guardian is trying a new approach to covering science stories. About time someone tried an alternative - mainstream science coverage tends to be awful.
• The Sun proves that it's remarkably talented at annoying sports bloggers.
• The Financial Times experiments with paywalled blogs. I think there's room for paywalled blogs - but I think moving an existing one behind a paywall is an error.

• Kevin Anderson writes about the wikification of news - its move towards more collaborative models online
• Dave Lee notes that recent moves by The Guardian look suspiciously like creating a network of niche B2B sites - and asks if that paves the way for some paywalls.
• The Harvard Business Review becomes the newest site to jump on the external commenting system bandwagon. Disqus is starting to get some traction amongst serious American magazines
• And are the assumptions around blog design just plain wrong?

• The truth does not lie midway between right and wrong - Suw deconstructs one of the persistent myths of 'balanced' journalism
• Second Life's new player builds towards the web - I'm beginning to suspect that Second Life has spent an unusually long period in the trough of disillusionment and may be on its way out...
• Elle Access Launches - another registration-based "club" model for online content.
• DSLR Video Kit - interesting way of doing high-quality video reporting
• How self-explanatory should Travel Weekly headlines be? - Do we need to rethink B2B headlines now they have to survive on the open web?
• Telegraph Digging on Dave's School Days - interesting how easily journalists probing after a story can be exposed these days.

• Bloggers are snapping up the front row seats at London Fashion Week - another traditional bastion of journalism breached by the bloggers...
• What should news apps on the iPad look like? - good question.
• Review of the BBC's social media guidelines - what it says. 
• Why limiting employee's online presence is a big mistake - warnings for anyone busy constructing social media guidelines...
• The Corporate Social Networking Manifesto - a good starting point

• New Media Age Putting More Of Itself Behind Paywall | paidContent:UK
  Interesting brouhaha in the comments.
  (tags: b2b paywalls content transition monetisation)
• UBM Will Cut Magazines To Expand Multimedia B2B | paidContent
  Print being slashed to clear the way for online development…
  (tags: b2b ubm onlinepublishing transition)

• Hivelogic - Podcasting Equipment Guide (2009)
  Good classification of gear based on your level of experience / commitment to podcasting
  (tags: audio podcast podcasting recording software advice podcasts equipment hardware)

• Hard Work's Overrated, Maybe Detrimental.
  I sort of knew this already, but I've been abominable at taking the time out to think, strategize and have moments of inspiration over the last six months. Need to do that more.
  (tags: advertising productivity psychology research creativity)
• iCrossing Releases 'Say What?' Social Media Monitoring iPhone App
  Looks useful
  (tags: iphone media socialmedia socialmediamonitoring)
• Who Rules The Social Web?
  Clue: it's not men.
  (tags: gender statistics infographics media socialmedia socialnetworks socialnetworking internet twitter facebook web web2.0 flickr social myspace socialsoftware)

• Oh, my science
  Interesting write-up of a debate about the coverage of science in mainstream media.
  (tags: science reporting newspapers)
• 5 [rules | steps | ideas | propositions] on Social Networking | Loudmouthman
  About as good a five point guide as you're every likely to see.
  (tags: socialnetworking)

• Nieman Reports | Ours, Theirs and the Bloggers’ Zones: Compatible, Yet Different
  Key quote, I think: "We now realize there are three spaces on the Telegraph’s Web site: ours—where comments on articles reside, theirs—My Telegraph, and the bloggers’—our blogs."
  (tags: telegraph newspapers commenters blogging ugc)

• Everything TypePad: Making Your TypePad Blog "Real Time"
  Typepad builds in support for the PubSubHubub real time updating format.
  (tags: typepad pubsubhubbub realtime realtimweb)
• RSSCloud Vs. PubSubHubbub: Why The Fat Pings Win
  There are two technologies in development right now that I think matter to publishers. This is one of them.
  (tags: rss pubsubhubbub rsscloud push realtime aggregator web atom tools)
• Libertylondongirl: Surely newspapers know what they are talking about? Right?
  What's this? National newspaper journalists making factual errors about bloggers? I though it was bloggers that were unreliable!
  (tags: blogging journalism media print online)
• RSS never blocks you or goes down: why social networks need to be decentralized
  A solid argument against the dominance of a handful of companies as the home of social graph information.
  (tags: socialnetworks socialnetworking syndication twitter architecture networking decentralization collaboration)
• Comment: Matt Wardman on Glen Jenvey, blogs and journalism standards
  Journalists completely taken in by fraud, bloggers expose it. What was that about being able to trust journalists but not bloggers?
  (tags: journalists bloggers fraud reputation)
• The Drudge Report: of course it hasn’t lost ‘its edge’ - Telegraph Blogs
  Shane nicely skewers the argument that the Drudge Report has lost its edge.
  (tags: blogging aggregation drudgereport)

• Survey: Average iPhone user has spent $80 on apps
  Interesting. That's a fair chunk of cash.
  (tags: iphone iphoneapps mobile)

• Considering a Blue Microphones Snowflake for Podcasting
  Review of the microphone which seems popular with podcasters
  (tags: podcasting microphones podcasts)

• Local online news video content: What’s working and what’s not
  Useful summary of field experience
  (tags: video news journalism)

• The Importance of Active Community Management – Proved With Real Data « Social Media Musings by Tom Humbarger
  Some stats to back up the need for active hosts in any online community
  (tags: community communities)
• Is It Journalism or 'Gerbalism'?
  A depressing deconstruction of how too much newspaper publishing as become mediocre and homogenous.
  (tags: journalism newspapers publishing)

• I studied print journalism: Now what? | Salon Life
  Amusing, especially for long-term journalists.
  (tags: journalism media internet reporting writing jobs)
• Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson
  Not so much a review, as a counter-argument to some of the key points behind Anderson's arguments about free.
  (tags: media free chrisanderson technology economics malcolmgladwell newyorker business internet books)
• Saturday Post: If You Are In The Path Of A Disruptive Technology You Are Toast - Goodbye Newspaper Companies
  A suggestion that the internet is so dispruptive as a technology that newspapers can't survive.
  (tags: journalism newspapers media technology business internet publishing)
• First, kill the lawyers – before they kill the news « BuzzMachine
  And another one jumps on the "give permission to link" bandwagon. The comments are well worth following.
  (tags: journalism publishing links linking)
• How To Save The Newspapers, Vol. XII: Outlaw Linking
  This is astonishing - a judge seriously suggesting the banning of linking without the link recipient's consent. Complete misunderstanding of the web...
  (tags: publishing newspapers media business links news)

• Social Media Economics Part 2 - broadstuff
  A useful reality check about monetising pure community activity. With top-notch added snark.
  (tags: socialnetworks monetisation)

• Flickr: Setting limits for online speech
  Yahoo! allegedly deletes a Flickr account for political activity. Thought-provoking, because of the implied limits to user-created content.
  (tags: yahoo flickr ugc moderation)

• John Menzies Drops Digital Mag Business; E-Editions Not Popular Enough | paidContent:UK
  Personal opinions: digital editions are a dead end that forces a print format online uncomfortably. And this is the first ringing of the death knell
  (tags: publishing digitaleditions magazines)
• In defence of paywalls | Online Journalism Blog
  I'm not claiming to agree with all of this - but we do have some successful paywalled sites…
  (tags: paywalls monetisation content publishing)
• Publishers still committed to video despite downturn, says Brightcove CEO
  Brightcove talks about the way video is going - and that means mobile.
  (tags: video brightcove publishers mobiles mobile iphone)

• The Birmingham Mail’s Gareth Barry letter: why so late on the web? | Joanna Geary
  Ah, just when I though the web-first discussion was over...
  (tags: webfirst journalism journalists webpublishing news)

• » Twitter, Facebook and the rest - why you have to play around just to keep up - cruel to be kind
  "The new motto should be: “Get playful, get experimental - or stay behind.” and applies especially to companies and organisations." Ooooooh, yes.
  (tags: twitter facebook socialmedia change business)

• Journalism in Crisis 09: Media in crisis faces five recurrent problems, says professor
  Not sure that I agree with all five points made in here, but they're certainly thought-provoking.
  (tags: journalism)

• It's not just the BBC that prevents British newspapers putting up pay walls :: Shane Richmond
  "What I think she's saying is that readers have been used to paying something to receive the news in a convenient format. I would argue that if you take away the format, paper, then you take away the reason to pay." - So can we create a new reason?
  (tags: paywalls monetisation publishing)
• WSJ staffers told to be nice online
  Wow. The WSJ completely missed the point here.
  (tags: wsj blogging journalists socialmedia etiquette journalism)
• Journalism Students Debate Owning iPhones - Digits - WSJ
  This shift towards digital learning on journalism course could have interesting side-effects.
  (tags: journalism iphone apple students universities)
• Xark!: Why comments suck (& ideas on un-sucking them)
  Nice summation of the reasons commenting goes bad on many mainstream media sites
  (tags: comments blogging community journalists)
• Why Raising The Pay Wall May Be An Impossible Dream
  Stumbling blocks for paywalls (mixing my metaphors nicely, there)
  (tags: monetisation paywalls publishing)

• QIT#8 I'm sick and tired of this infernal blog debate | Joanna Geary
  Can we all collectively get over this whole "blogs are rubbish" thing now, please
  (tags: journalism journalists blogging)
• Lifehacker - Use a Sub-Savings Account for Unexpected Expenses - Saving Money
  One of my photos used under a Creative Commons licence on Lifehacker
  (tags: flickr creativecommons)

• Google soft-launches public comments | The Web Life | ZDNet.com
  This could change everything. Or be an embarrassing mess…
  (tags: comments search google conversations)

• Interview: Rob Grimshaw, Publisher, FT.com: Newspapers Must Add Paid Content | paidContent:UK
  Key quote: "We have a strong position that makes it relatively straightforward for us to have a subscription model, and I don’t see any reason why that can’t be replicated in other categories like consumer categories, for example. But you have got to have that quality and uniqueness." And how much journalism really falls into that category?
  (tags: journalism quality paywalls paidcontent monetisation)
• Book Review: Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim
  Sounds like essential reading for journalists looking to become entrepreneurs...
  (tags: journalism books corporatelife fulfillinglife)
• Country Life puts 100 year photo archives online
  Vast picture library from the magazine goes online. Fascinating.
  (tags: countryside countrylife archives webpublishing magazines galleries)
• Publishers may be examining how to charge for online news, but the free ride is far from over
  The revenue crisis in publishing is pushing pay walls back onto the agenda - this is a good, level-headed take on it.
  (tags: paywalls monetisation publishing newspapers)

• Google is building a social network under our very noses. It could be bigger and better than Facebook. - The Next Web
  Prediction: we'll see more "reverse" social networks in the next year, where existing services gain social features
  (tags: google socialnetworks)
• Everything TypePad: Now In Beta: Previewing The All New TypePad
  This looks great. I run a couple of blogs on Typepad and I can't wait.
  (tags: blogplatforms blogs blogging typepad sixapart)

• Oblique Angle: Communities of Play
  Breakdown of the key characteristics of online communities, and its distinction from an affinity group.
  (tags: communities)
• Curation an important focus for news sites | The Evolving Newsroom
  Aggregation will play an important role in the future of telegraph.co.uk
  (tags: curator curation aggregation thetelegraph)
• noodlepie: Publishing an online newswire
  A useful look at aggregation workflows using Publish2
  (tags: journalism aggregation workflow publish2)
• It Takes a Village Idiot: The Jerks of Online Forums - PC World
  Ah, I recognise every single one of these archetypes.
  (tags: forums trolls community)

• Thoughts on running a live blog on a national news website | Joanna Geary
  Jo shares her experiences from running the the G20 liveblog at The Times.
  (tags: liveblogging events coveritlive)
• TalkPress: The Forum Revisited and Revitalized | The Blog Herald
  The barrier to (publishing) entry gets ever lower.
  (tags: forums bbpress automattic)

• Facebook Announces Users Will Soon Be Able to Login to Facebook Via OpenID
  Facebook joins the OpenID march forwards...
  (tags: facebook openid socialweb socialnetworks)

• Be2Camp - Exploring Web 2.0 in the built environment
  (tags: property architecture)
• Comprehensive study of user-generated content at the BBC :: Blog :: Headshift
  Some revealing highlights from research into people's attitudes to UGC on news sites.
  (tags: ugc reporting research bbc)

• Everything you wanted to know about Movable Type's Publish Queue - majordojo
  Full details on one of the key technologies behind Movable Type
  (tags: movabletype blogplatforms)
• Blogging for travel writers - Why bother?
  One of those posts where the most interesting content is to be found in the comments.
  (tags: blogging journalism journalists travelwriting travel)

• Strange Attractor » Blog Archive » What’s missing from the Google/newspapers discussion
  Suw: "[Newspapers… think that dedicated reading is the one true way to absorb news, and look down upon anything else. This prejudice is damaging the news industry badly, because if your whole revenue generating mechanism, not to mention your metrics for success, is built upon the idea of people spending lots of time on your site, reading lots of articles, then your business is built on sand."
  (tags: google search news newspapers)
• Daily Kos: State of the Nation
  Debunking the notion that blogs get all their content from newspapers
  (tags: blogs newspapers news journalism)

• Steve Job’s office back in 1982
  Is it weird that I aspire to this?
  (tags: offices workspace minimalism uncluttering)

• Out of the mouth of a reader…
  A reader calls for the end of publishing online...
  (tags: monetisation print deathofprint)
• Flip HD Mino compared with the Flip Ultra | Techfluff.tv
  Comparison videos between the Mino HD and the original Ultra
  (tags: video videoblogging flipminohd flipultra flip)
• Freedom to surf: workers more productive if allowed to use the internet for leisure : News : The University of Melbourne
  Surfing the net at work for pleasure actually increases our concentration levels and helps make a more productive workforce, according to a new University of Melbourne study. Dr Brent Coker, from the Department of Management and Marketing, says that workers who engage in ‘Workplace Internet Leisure Browsing’ (WILB) are more productive than those who don’t.
  (tags: workplace internet monitoring productivity)

• Telegraph uses Twitterfall for live football pages | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
  A fascinating way that twitter streams can be use to support traditional content.
  (tags: twitter publishing reporting)
• Press silence on Alfie Patten DNA test result broken by Google News - currybetdotnet - 27 March, 2009
  It's getting harder for national courts to control stories...
  (tags: reporting censorship law legal)
• The Long Tail - Wired Blogs
  A survey of business models used online
  (tags: monetisation revenue)
• WordPress News: WordPress 2.8, Summer of Code, PodPress Returning, iPhone Update
  "Matt Mullenweg says that OpenID and OAuth will be in upcoming versions of WordPress, possibly WordPress 2.8." - WIN
  (tags: wordpress blogplatforms openid oauth)
• Paul Dailing: How to Become a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger
  Ah, satire: "Apparently, it's very simple. The more you self-reference, pick feuds and talk about the failure of TimesSelect, the better you're doing. If you make it sound like you're the one who figured out newspapers are dying, you win."
  (tags: newspapers journalism satire)
• Roadtesting the Flip Mino HD
  Sarah, the lucky so-and-so, has had a Flip Mino HD to play with,
  (tags: video videoblogging flipminohd)
• My speech to Gordon Brown goes viral :: Daniel Hannan
  A sea change in political coverage: "How did it happen, in the absence of any media coverage? The answer is that political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."
  (tags: politics journalism blogging)
• ★ Obsession Times Voice
  "There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium is new, but the craft is ancient."

• Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary shake-up
  If this goes ahead, it will have a huge impact on how the next generation of readers view our businesses
  (tags: blogging blogs twitter uk children wikipedia education)

• Science journalism: Supplanting the old media? : Nature News
  Nature looks at the phenomenon of scientists becoming science bloggers
  (tags: science journalism journalists blogging)
• Science journalists turning to blogging? | The Blog Herald
  Redundant science journalists boosting the science blogosphere?
  (tags: journalism science journalists)
• External links: the 8 stages of linking out denial | Online Journalism Blog
  Makes me laugh, again and again and again.
  (tags: journalism newspapers internet linking links publishing)
• Dirty Tricks: Newspapers Demand Google Welfare
  Do the US newspapers want special treatment by google?
  (tags: google newspapers publishing revenue search seo)

• Take Two Steps Back: A Society Gets the Journalism it Deserves » the billblog
  Interesting examination of how decoupling journalism from its current means of delivery might reshape it completely.
  (tags: journalism journalists)

• When The Daily Show's fake news becomes real journalism | Media | guardian.co.uk
  More evidence that better journalism is being done outside traditional outlets than within them…
  (tags: journalism satire)
• 10 Annoying Habits of a Geeky Spouse | Geekdad from Wired.com
  Guilty of all of these, bar number 7. Need to get myself a frakking plushie murloc, stat.
  (tags: geek lifestyle humour)
• How to find the people you need
  How rich user profiles can be very, very useful.
  (tags: profiles identity activity)

• Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden - O'Reilly Radar
  Is Facebook set to open up over the next year?
  (tags: facebook socialnetworking socialnetworks openid openstandards dataportability)
• Facebook blinks, copies Twitter, still gets it wrong. - broadstuff
  Is the aggregation of activity model in danger of breaking?
  (tags: facebook twitter socialnetworking socialnetworks socialgraph riverofnews)

• The Twentieth Century was Wrong :: Blog :: Headshift
  The social tools of the 21st century aren't the aberration - it's the anti-social tools of the 20th that were just plain weird...
  (tags: headshift socialmedia socialnetworks)
• Category RSS with Movable Type 4 - Tildemark blogs
  Useful guide to producing category feeds in MT4.
  (tags: movabletype rss atom)

• Frontline Club - Adam Blenford on Photojournalism: Fleeced on Flickr?
  Rather worrying account of mainstream media fleecing pros who put pics on Flickr.
  (tags: flickr creativecommons media photography)
• : NewsGator Powers New Variety.com iPhone App & Widget
  Nice work from my colleagues at RBI US and Zibb
  (tags: b2b rbi iphone mobile iphoneapps)

• Tom Morris: 2009-02-25
  Tom Morris: 'My point is just this: the Internet - call it social media if you prefer - requires nothing more than common sense, a bit of courtesy and a nose for bullshit to master. Sending e-lawyers after people, throwing huffy "you ain't a proper journo!" comments around, insulting your customers, spreading bullshit - it makes you look like an idiotic dipshit."
  (tags: socialmedia online commonsense)
• What would you do?
  Grim figures from the US B2B market.
  (tags: b2b revenue publishing)
• Useful tools for homebrew media - my OS X workflow « The lost outpost
  Really useful look at a Mac-based workflow for producing social media content
  (tags: workflow socialmedia blogging mac)
• Walter Isaacson: How to Save Your Newspaper
  Is the paywall argument too polarised right now?
  (tags: monetisation subscriptions publishing)

• Listening to the Reed Elsevier results presentation « Rory Brown
  Some thoughts on the future of RBI and the B2B market in lights of Reed Elsevier's results
  (tags: reedelsevier rbi publishing economy)
• Creating that Niche Social Network, or Not?
  Will a niche social network help your business? What's the right attitude to make it work?
  (tags: communites socialnetworking socialnetworks)
• Obama's web guru comes to town - Times Online
  Telling look at the thought processes behind the Obama campaign's online community
  (tags: politcs socialmedia communities)

• Subbing own Guardian blog is not the norm, says Janine Gibson
  Janine Gibson, editor of the Guardian’s website, says this is not true of the Guardian: “The majority of our blogs are edited and subbed before publication. I can only think of a small handful of journalists who blog direct to the web without being either desked or subbed first. We don’t publish news stories undesked and although our journalists can publish pictures direct to blogs, they rarely do.”
  (tags: guardian subbing subs blogs blogging)
• Property Sites In The Crunch: Estatecreate.com Launches As Traffic Falls
  Estatecreate.com launched yesterday, a site allowing property owners to create their own web page to sell their house. The page is hosted and run through the site's search engine—as well as other property classifieds sites—for £5.95 per month. And unlike most property sites, there's no commission.
  (tags: property realestate)

• Reed close to deal on extending loans
  Reed Elsevier, the publisher that shelved plans to sell its business information division last year amid collapsing valuations, is close to securing a forward-start agreement to extend about $2bn of loan debt by three years.
  (tags: rbi reedelsevier publishers debt)

• The Mancunian Way: #smc_mcr Invisible communities: Can we see them?
  An interesting exploration of the concept and importance of invisible communities
  (tags: community communities)

• Explaining link journalism - Random Mumblings
  A very quick video summary of what link journalism is about.
  (tags: journalism aggregation linking)

• TV station sues blogger for criticising its coverage
  Why suing your consumers is a poor idea…
  (tags: media bloggers blogging distribution law)

• After The Non-Sale, RBI Confirms 35 UK Job Cuts
  B2B magazine publisher Reed Business Information is to cut 35 jobs in the UK
  (tags: rbi economy journalists redundancy)
• B2B flight website tries out video blogging with ‘Runway Girl’ | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
  Journalism.co.uk follows up my post about Runway Girl.
  (tags: flight rbi videoblogging)
• Roy Greenslade: Fort Dunlop, a multimedia journalism factory that really works
  Interesting report from Fort Dunlop (Funlop?)
  (tags: journalism newsrooms working trinitymirror)

• Google Blog Converters 1.0 Released
  Looks like an extraordinarily handy way of moving blog content between system
  (tags: blogs blogplatforms export)

• New Tricks: Break the Twitterfeed habit | Old Media, New Tricks
  Pinpoints where media goes wrong with Twitter
  (tags: twitter conversations)
• Windows Live Writer 2009: Release Candidate
  New version of the best blog posting software on Windows
  (tags: blogging microsoft windowslivewriter)

• The Social Advertising Race Has Begun
  Ah-ha. Social advertising. I wondered what the buzzword was going to be...
  (tags: advertising monetisation networking identity activity liefstream gfacebook facebook connect google profile)

• Guido Fawkes posts where his readers come from. If you think blog are only read by fringe freaks, think again...
• ReadWriteWeb dives into the Technorati State of the Blogosphere data with some serious analysis
• The debate over working styles on the national newspapers continues. Wouldn't you love to have Roy Greenslade's inbox?
• Jeff Jarvis is looking for the most commonly-raised objections to fully embracing the web.
• This is what good link journalism looks like.
• And is the whole "Digital Native" idea a massive distraction - or a terrible excuse?
  

• Moving from WordPress.com to WordPress.org | BlogWell
  Good, useful guide to moving off wordpress.com
  (tags: wordpress wordpress.com blogplatforms)

Random links from tabs lingering in my browser at the end of the weekend:

• Wired editors are blogging the creation of a feature as it happens.
• Pete Ashton picks apart some of the terrible reporting around Google's Chrome (and bloggers don't do too well, either)
• Hacking Cough shows up just how bad some of the pictures submitted for print publication really are. A clear case of a little knowledge being dangerous when it comes to photo resolution.
• Is there any news left in today's news stories?
• Is it time for a video journalism camp in London?

The latest of Steve Jackson's blogs, Our Man in Cameroon, is up and going. Steve has been chronicling his life in various different countries for several years now, though Grenada, Hanoi and Newcastle. Steve's volunteering overseas in Cameroon (the clue being in the title there), but his reportage of life in other countries is always worth a look. I'll be subscribing.

And how could I resist his picture of the lizard above, when it echoes Taupy, the lizard in my blog header? :-)

• Paul links to some research on podcasting that suggests that it's got an affluent audience and that there's some growth to come.
• James shares some lessons learned from using social media at an event - in this case, Greenbelt.
• And, amongst all the posting about Google's new browser, Chrome, I rather like Shane and Alan's take on the issues. They cover much of the same ground, but Shane has more depth and Alan more snark... :-)

• TheSocialWeb.tv
  New video podcast about the social web, and interaction between social sites.
  (tags: development media podcast social technology web2.0)
• Build a Website - Create a Blog - Squarespace
  A blog service I really must experiment with.
  (tags: blog blogging blogs hosting publishing webpublishing webservices blogplatforms)

• Flickr founder knocks Yahoo's culture
  How corporate focus can stifle innovation.
  (tags: flickr yahoo corporate corporatelife innovation)

• AOL Makes Big Budget Cuts Across Blogs (Updated)
  Tough times at AOL's blogs, by the look of it.
  (tags: aol blogging blogs weblogsinc)
• Suddenly everybody's buying blogs
  Yeah, and we've done it, too. But no-one cares about B2B. :)
  (tags: blogs blogging monetisation)

• Facebook Connects with Movable Type
  Blimey. Use Facebook to sign in and comment on Movable Type blogs. Nice.
  (tags: facebook movabletype socialnetworking blogging blogplatforms)

• Telegraph CIO on swapping Google in for Microsoft
  Interesting move to deprecate Office for Google Apps
  (tags: google. googleapps, microsoft, microsoftoffice)

• BT to pump £1.5bn into broadband
  Finally, we're starting to take fibre to the home seriously...
  (tags: bt broadband internet telecoms)
• Aperture - In Action
  Great set of videos on using Aperture
  (tags: photography aperture)
• A threat from an unlikely place
  Could beat journalists transfer their skills to blogging and become a threat to existing publishers?
  (tags: b2b blogging beatblogging journalists publishing)
• These Digital Times
  John Welsh, the digital director of one of our competitors, CMP, is now blogging
  (tags: cmp publishing journalists journalism)
• WordPress 2.6
  Some nice new features in the latest version of Wordpress
  (tags: blogplatforms wordpress)
• Paradigm Shift: News is Community
  Key quote: "Blogging is a symptom of a massively connected public. And that public’s nature necessitates a fundamental change in the way news org’s behave, whether print or broadcast."
  (tags: community publishing journalism)
• Social Media is not Community
  Interesting discussion of how social media can be misundestood
  (tags: community socialmedia)

• Has the City really lost its marbles over media?
  What happens when the money goes?
  (tags: advertising publishing)

• Political bloggers of the Left and Right: prepare for power?
  Fascinating analysis of the left and right wing political bloggers and their likely role in a shift of political power
  (tags: politics bloggers blogging)

• BBC Dumps Microsoft-Backed Skinkers Apps, Switches To Adobe
  Auntie Beeb switches from Microsoft to cross-platform Adobe tech. Good news.
  (tags: apps adobe AIR flash BBC development)
• What makes a good newspaper forum?
  Does what it says on the tin
  (tags: forums publishing newspapers)

• Friendranking and other antisocial objects
  On the problems with making money from social networks.
  (tags: monetisation socialnetworks)
• Iain Dale Turns To Print, Because Advertisers 'Don't Get' Blogs
  An interesting decision, based on following the money…
  (tags: monetisation blogging publishing)
• O'Reilly -- Hi-Res YouTube Hacks
  Some good hints for maximum quality embeds from YouTube.
  (tags: youtube video embedding)

• Will Self: PsychoGeography - God's Own Country
  Mum's vicar buys Will Self for a day…
  (tags: christianity suffolk family)
• FOLIO: mediaPRO
  A social network for magazine journalists
  (tags: magazines journalists socialnetworks)
• Why has Technorati been so slow recently?
  Some explanations for the woeful performance of Technorati of late.
  (tags: technorati)
• Should professional journalists blog privately?
  Should publishers allow journalists to blog privately, on non-competative subjects? Yes, say most. It's the ones who say "no" that worry me.
  (tags: journalists blogging)
• Google cache and libel — Adrian Monck
  The implications of Google cache for libel - and why it's really, really hard to take something down after you've put it on the net
  (tags: libel publishing webpublishing)
• How To Derive Value From B2B Blogging by Laura Ramos - Forrester Research
  For blogging to succeed, you need to be conversational. Why do so many people struggle with that?
  (tags: blogging business b2b)
• Information is only scarce if you live in a bubble. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
  Kavin nails exactly why so many journalists have a "head in the sand" attitude to the changes in their industry
  (tags: journalism journalists)

• UK internet traffic to blogs at all time high
  UK blog traffic at an all-time high
  (tags: traffic blogs uk)
• Movable Type: A History of Security
  Six Apart claiming an excellent security record for Movable Type versus other Well-usedPlatforms...
  (tags: security wordpress movabletype)

• Plurking Help the Complete Plurk How To Guide for Plurkers old and Plurks Noobs to
  Useful reference for my new obsession...
  (tags: plurk)

• Rules for open web community
  Very useful.
  (tags: communities)
• Loic Le Meur Blog: My reasons why video comments will work (and why you have to try and give them a chance)
  Still not 100% convinced about video comments - but I will be installing the Movable Type Seesmic plugin as soon as they get around to releasing it.
  (tags: seesmic video comments blogging)

• The New New Journalism
  Key points from the event last week.
  (tags: journalism digitaljournalism)
• Exeter bomb blast: a case study in online coverage and social media « Gary Andrews
  How social media "covered" the Exeter bombing
  (tags: socialmedia digitaljournalism journalism exeter)
• Fight for your writes | Comment is free
  Do newspapers have the right to just republish material from blogs? Well, how would they feel if bloggers just republished newspaper stories?
  (tags: journalism newspapers bloggers blogging copyright)
• Emap B2B Restructures As Four Units; Separate Online Strategy For Each | paidContent:UK
  I find the idea of separating out the events business very odd - removing one path to making money from online brands seems very short-sighted.
  (tags: emap publishers publishing)

• OpenCalais
  Automatically suggests tags via a Wordpress plugin
  (tags: tagging taxonomy)
• SimpleFeed - RSS Publishing and Feed Analytics for Marketing, eCommerce, Financial Services and Media & Publishing
  They provide metrics and ad serving against feeds
  (tags: rss atom metrics)
• An Upgrade to TypePad's Compose Screen
  Typepad's editing functionality is getting a big upgrade over the next few weeks...
  (tags: typepad sixapart blogplatforms)

• Washington Post signs syndication deal with TechCrunch
  Major newspaper syndicates blogs content. Very interesting.
  (tags: newspapers blogging syndication)

• Virtual Economics: The balance chimera
  A nice dissection of the idea that balance is just "giving both sides of the story". You also need a sense of the relative weight of those sides.
  (tags: journalism journalists)

• The Future of Newspapers
  Much of this applies just as well to magazines or any journalistic endeavour.
  (tags: journalism publishing magazines newspapers)

• Magtastic Blogsplosion
  Promising start...
  (tags: magazines publishing)

• Journalism.co.uk :: Future of NUJ's The Journalist magazine 'under review'
  I must admit that I'm only an NUJ member through inaction right now. This might just change my inclination towards leaving.
  (tags: NUJ journalism)
• Massive web gains for Telegraph, Mirror Group debuts with 4.4m uniques
  Some interesting pointers as to how the Telegraph created a traffic surge.
  (tags: journalism journalists traffic metrics)
• The Obvious?: Girlie phones
  Nice responses to the people who characterise Macs as "Fisher Price" computers.
  (tags: iphone apple macs technology)

• Facebook infrastructure up to 10,000 web servers
  Interesting wee breakdown of the servers needed to run Facebook.
  (tags: facebook webpublishing servers scaling memcached)
• Coding Horror: Behold WordPress, Destroyer of CPUs
  Somewhat heated debate around the performance of Wordpress under load, and how it could be improved. This was behind our choice of a static publishing route.
  (tags: wordpress dynamicpublishing php databases blogplatforms)

• Setting the Tone for Blogging filters
  Towards a classification system for blogs...of a certain type.
  (tags: blogs bloggers blogging)
• How to: master Twitter, if you're a journalist
  Handy guide to using Twitter, targeted at hacks.
  (tags: twitter microblogging journalists journalism)
• Journalism.co.uk launches PressGo, a new press release repository : Journalism.co.uk editors blog
  Interesting model. Pay to stream press releases via RSS…
  (tags: PR pressreleases monetisation)
• The world needs more people who speak both 'user' and 'developer'
  Yes, we certainly need more people who can bridge the (often vast) divide between the people who create the content and the people who build the publishing systems
  (tags: webpublishing websites)
• Where can "print" reporters go?
  Just dealt with another "all this social media stuff is rubbish" type letter on our corporate internet. I should have just linked this instead.
  (tags: journalism journalists print oldmedia contractpublishing)
• noodlepie: Social media news tracking for journalists
  Interesting course concept.
  (tags: rss socialmedia journalists)

• Trade Publishers Ally for Ad Net
  (tags: advertising adnetworks monetisation publishing publishers)

• Beyond recent changes: Socialtext 3.0
  I like the concept of social networking around wikis - we recently discovered that we had 3 separate groups working on RSS metrics here, a situation that could have been headed off by this kind of thing.
  (tags: wikis socialtext socialnetworking)

• cybersoc.com: seen someone taking photos? multiple mobiles?
  Robin highlights the way the police in London are encouraging people to view photographers with suspicion. Worrying.
  (tags: photography law terrorism politcs)

• Just One Anna
  A WoW-blogging friend ventures out of the Azeroth ghetto...
  (tags: blogs blogging bloggers)

• ★ The Unsatisfying State of Twitter Web Clients for the iPhone
  Round up of mobile Twitter options
  (tags: twitter iphone webapps)
• No, no, no, no, no, no
  Oh, dear God. If this is a genuine video than Microsoft has more problems than any of us realised...
  (tags: microsoft vista video sales badbadbad)
• What not to do about Social Networking (David Lacey's IT Security Blog)
  One of the Computer Weekly bloggers has something sensible to say about corporate IT and social networks.
  (tags: socialnetworking socialnetworks security)

• Bringing Blogging To Your Social Networks
  A Facebook app to post to your blog - including the various flavours of Wordpress - from Six Apart.
  (tags: facebook blogging sixapart typepad movabletype wordpress)
• Lore Sjöberg's Alt Text: Flickr Fans Flustered Over Video Posting
  Lore's take on the bemusing anti-video crusade amongst Flickr users.
  (tags: flickr video community)
• Music Business Group: What will they tax next? : April 2008 : Shane Richmond : Technology : Telegraph Blogs
  Ever get the feeling that the music industry lost sight of listeners as "customers" and started thinking of them as "revenue streams"? Shane Richmond tears apart the latest idiocy.
  (tags: music musicindustry ipod formatshifting revenue)

• Telegraph Appoints Community Head, Still Troubled By Multiplatform Working
  Interesting moves afoot at the ever-changing Telegraph.
  (tags: community newspapers)

• Financial crisis in B2B publishing
  It's getting scary out there.
  (tags: B2B business publishing magazines)

• Marc Andreessen is writing about the history of newspapers and how that compares to the birth of new media. I had a conversation about this very issue with Antony maybe 18 months ago, and I do think it's a fascinating subject. I shall be following it keenly.
  
• Self-hosted Wordpress blogs which haven't been patched recently are being exploited widely. I like Wordpress. I use it for some blogs. But I dislike the more fanatical, evangelical end of its community who think EVERYBODY should use it. As a particular blog platform approaches ubiquity, it's going to be exploited (just as happened with Windows and desktop OSes). We saw this with Movable Type and comment spam. Now it's Wordpress's turn. This is why we need a diversity of blog platforms.
  
• Sarah Lacy (she of the infamous Zuckerberg interview) now has a blog, called Sarah Lacy. Prosaic name, but nice design. (Discovered via Techcrunch UK.)
  

• Twingly: “The future of media is conversation”
  A new player in blog search
  (tags: search blogs blogging conversations blogsearch twingly)
• Blog Hacks Coming Back to Roost?
  Clever social hack whereby using a free theme has compromised many Wordpress blogs. Clever, but worrying.
  (tags: wordpress themes hacking spammers)

• Fav.or.it to bring all comments back to your blog
  Ah, this looks interesting. It starts to address many of my concerns about the other comment trackers
  (tags: comments conversations community)
• Boing Boing's Moderation Policy
  I like the "disemvowelling" in particular.
  (tags: comments commenters moderation)

• Teaching Online Journalism » Happy newsrooms, sad newsrooms
  A very positive take on moving journalists into the digital age - help, mentor and enthuse, don't impose.
  (tags: journalism journalists digitaljournalism training mentoring)
• Anil Dash: Embedded Journalism
  Could text be embedded like YouTube videos?
  (tags: journalism blogging embedding sharing)

• Are you a fast blogger or a slow blogger?
  Interesting breakdown of blogging types and their strengths and weaknesses. They're not mutually exclusive, of course.
  (tags: bloggers blogging)

• Lacy/Zuckerberg: Conference 2.0
  Ah, some points behind the snark.
  (tags: conferences Journalism journalists interviewing sxsw)
• Revenge of the Experts
  I'll probably be pilloried for saying this, but I suspect as the amount of content on the net rises, the need for experts to sift it will. too.
  (tags: ugc aggregation journalists experts)

• Home-grown video shows on tech are almost there. But not quite.
  Interesting round-up of the best UK efforts in the technology video show area.
  (tags: video videoblogging)

• Livejournal drops ad-free basic version
  The new owners of LJ manage to upset the community for the first time.
  (tags: livejournal blogging community blogplatforms)

• Journalists and online etiquette
  Interesting dissection of The Guardian's statement on journalists participating in blog comments
  (tags: journalism journalists comments forums discussion)

• Steve Jobs speaks out - FORTUNE
  Fascinating insight into what it takes to make an innovation-first company.
  (tags: stevejobs apple management innovation business)
• Six Apart Announces Plans for Native TypePad iPhone Application
  And if they don't do the same for Movable Type, there will be a number of us wanting a "wee chat" with them...
  (tags: iphone typepad sixapart movabletype)

• WordPress Making Its Social Networking Move?
  Does Automattic have its eyes set on making Wordpress into a sociall network platform?
  (tags: wordpress automattic blogging socialnetworking)
• It's all about pictures
  Web video is hitting critical mass, but as we all start buying cameras an production suites, livestreaming rears its head…
  (tags: video videoblogging journalism)
• TypePad claims greatest customization and design options for hosted blogs : The Blog Herald
  Watch the Six Apart and Automattic guys take pot-shots at each other in the comments...
  (tags: typepad sixapart wordpress automattic)

• Have Blogs Killed Conventional Websites?
  Could blogs CMSes become the default?
  (tags: blogs blogging cms webpublishing websites)
• Birminghampost.net goes live!
  Oooh! Shiny!
  (tags: birmighampost localnewspapers newspapers)
• LiveJournal Advisory Board
  danah on the LJ advisory board - good news for the home of my first ever blog.
  (tags: livejournal blogging)
• Bring Blogs and Forums Together - MT Forum Released
  Interesting low cost alternative to Six Apart's own offering.
  (tags: movabletype blogs forums)
• Has Your Blog Been Blogged?
  An interesting new blog directory. Can they succeed where so many have failed?
  (tags: blogs directories blogging)

• It's not new media MSM is failing at: it's social media
  Bingo.
  (tags: socialmedia publishing newmedia msm)

• Twitter
  Jeff Jarvis thinks about the uses of Twitter
  (tags: twitter microblogging)

• Free eBook recommendation: The Future of Reputation
  Free ebook for anyone interested in the future of reputation, privacy and identity in the online age.
  (tags: reputation identity ebooks privacy)

• A by-the-numbers approach to what journalists are angry about
  A fun, and revealing look at what journalists are ranting about
  (tags: change journalists journalism publishing business workplace)
• Make room for a programmer at the news conference table
  Good call. In the online world they play a role not far from the art team.
  (tags: publishing Journalism web webpublishing)

• how would you decide what social links to put on content?
  How do you move social bookmarking helpers into the body of your website smoothly?
  (tags: bookmarking socialbookmarking publishing websites)
• Telegraph Opens Tech R&D Lab
  I keep telling people that the Telegraph is the paper to watch…
  (tags: thetelegraph editorial publishing websites nationalnewspapers)
• PODGRAMS
  Stephen Fry is doing a podcast. Woo and, indeed, hoo!
  (tags: stephenfry podcasts)

• Valleywag finds its voice
  Interesting look at the strengths and weaknesses of Valleywag in the light of its huge surge is traffic. Much to learn here.
  (tags: valleywag gawker blogs blogging publishing journalism onlinepublishing)
• Guido Fawkes airbrushed out of the present by Tory pamphlet
  Ah, the competition between individual bloggers and the mainstream media ain't going anywhere just yet.
  (tags: conservative guidofawkes bloggers blogging journalists metrics traffic thetelegraph)

• Podcasts can drive traffic for newspapers
  Some good thoughts on the benefits of podcasting to publications
  (tags: podcasting podcasts journalism journalists)
• Ten tips for bloggers taking part in forums
  Does what it says on the tin.
  (tags: bloggers blogging forums)

• Why teach journalism students Dreamweaver?
  After all, you don't teach them to use printing presses...
  (tags: education journalism journalists web onlinepublishing)

• Teaching journalism students to twitter - the good, the bad, and the ugly
  Paul relates the good, the bad and the exciting in trying to get students to use Twitter.
  (tags: twitter journalism education)
• Movable Love - a showcase of interesting and beautiful sites powered by Movable Type
  Cool sites built in Movable Type. Nice to see Irish Medical Times in there,
  (tags: movabletype blogging cms publishing)

• Mobile reporting
  Reporters from Auntie Beeb using mobiles to video blog...
  (tags: videoblogging video mobiles digitalpublishing digitaljournalism Journalism bbc reporting)
• Events update
  Techcrunch UK's round-up of forthcoming events
  (tags: events conferences)

• Four more podcasts I like
  Four interesting podcasts recommended by Boing Boing
  (tags: podcasts podcasting)
• I'm demonstrating using Flickr for photos in blogs
  My colleague explaining how he's been tasked with encouraging our journalists to participate in Creative Commons
  (tags: flickr photography publishing creativecommons)
• Drupal 6 opens new content management doors
  Drupal 6 is here - and may be good for news sites
  (tags: drupal cms publishing)
• Yahoo employee Twitters his layoff
  Ah, firing people is less easy to keep "on message" in the social media
  (tags: twitter humanresources hr socialmedia business employment)

• Awareness of Social Media Dis(Ad)vantages - broadstuff
  Nice thoughts on why putting ads into social networks successfully is an uphill struggle.
  (tags: socialnetworks socialnetworking socialmedia advertising monetisation)

• Simple tool for doing stuff with rss feeds
  Useful for doing what it says
  (tags: rss feeds atom)

• Micro Persuasion: The Digital Curator in Your Future
  Nice think piece on the rise of the digital curator - and how it's a distinctly different role to that of an editor.
  (tags: curator linking search discovery attention attentioncrash)

• Who Will Control Advertising on the Web?
  How much will the traditional structures change?
  (tags: advertising publishing monetisation)
• Trends: Citizen journalism, or how to get your readers to do more of your reporting
  Reports from the Norwegian front in the Engagement War
  (tags: ugc citizenjournalism norway)

• Blog Plagiarism Q&A
  (tags: blogs blogging spammers plagiarism)
• What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content « Lorelle on WordPress
  (tags: blogs blogging plagiarism spammers contenttheft)
• Is Someone Stealing Your Content? The DMCA Is Your Friend
  (tags: blogs blogging bloggers spammers contenttheft plagiarism)
• Arguing against Nick Davies
  Adrian starts picking some holes in Nick Davies' arguments about how journalism is going down the drain.
  (tags: Journalism journalists)

• Is Being a Blogging Journalist Advantageous?
  Well, I think so…
  (tags: blogs bloging journalism journalists)
• In which Eric Rice gets social media fatigue
  Ian says that the thing that makes social media valuable isn't the features - it's the people. Yes!
  (tags: socialmedia socialnetworks socialnetworking)
• Desperately seeking the "killer best way"
  Google's results might have given away some of the issues around making money from social networks...
  (tags: facebook socialnetworks money monetisation)
• Truly, Madly, Anti
  I probably link Meg's anti-Valentine's cards every year. But, let's face it, they're so worth it...
  (tags: valentines humour satire)
• NewsGator subscriber counts
  A brief explanation of how Newsgator reports subscriber numbers
  (tags: rss atom feeds metrics)

• Changing just one mind
  Most important thing for publishers to do? Start changing their recruitment policy.
  (tags: journalism journalists recruitment)
• Roadmap for a Magazine’s Online Turnaround
  Dan outlines how the Atlantic (an US magazine I subscribe to) is a poster child for an online turn-around.
  (tags: onlinepublishing theatlantic magazines publishing)
• Filters must die
  Oh, yes.
  (tags: internet support firewalls filtering corporatelife)
• Press Gazette - Top of the blogs...
  Nice that two of ours are features - shame the article has no links at all...
  (tags: rbi blogs blogging)
• Urchin Software Beta Now Public
  Ah, now that's very interesting indeed. This is the self-install version of the software that runs Google analytics...
  (tags: metrics analytics)

• Trust and UGC
  Interesting look at the trust issues around media using user generated content
  (tags: ugc trust media mainstreammedia newspapers)
• Waxy.org: The Times (UK) Spamming Social Media Sites
  Dumb. Cargo cult link building at its worst.
  (tags: thetimes newspapers search seo spamming links)
• You too can speak journalese! (Journal Blog Central)
  Ah, the foibles of journalistic English…
  (tags: journalism journalists cliches jargon)
• beware of turning hobbies into jobs
  I've done this three times now. Maybe one day I'll learn the lesson.
  (tags: hobbies work career)
• Why re-invent the CMS wheel?
  Amen.
  (tags: cms)
• A web-centric CMS that drives print output

  In an awesomely detailed post, the editor of Schamper, the student newspaper at the University of Gent (Belgium) describes how he -- a philosophy major -- built a Web-centric content management system

  (tags: cms)
• More things journalism can learn from porn
  An article nearly as good as the headline…
  (tags: journalism journalists)

• Trolls Plague Political Blogs and Sites
  Trolls are a menace to many online communities, blogs or web forums. This especially true with political communities. Politics seems to bring out the worst in trolls and political forums often face a never ending stream of them...
  (tags: communities trolls blogging)
• Miami Tycoon Sues Real Estate Blogger for $25 Million
  Interesting legal action against a blogger. And it would be in the property sector...
  (tags: realestate bloggers blogging legal law sue)
• 4 Big Themes at This Year’s DEMO
  Technology trends from DEMO
  (tags: demo technology trends)

• An Introduction to ExpressionEngine [on Geek & Mild]
  Useful overview of the Expression Engine CMS
  (tags: expressionengine cms blogging publishing)

• You know, you don't have to do video
  Some good guidance on how NOT to think about web video
  (tags: video videoblogging journalism)
• apophenia: Technology and the World of Consumption
  Interesting look at the very different way the current young generation look at online and physical interaction
  (tags: technology digitalnatives youngpeople ecommerce virtualworlds)
• Newspepper - soft launch for citizen journalism site
  Been sat in a tab in Safari for ages for me to write about. Maybe later...
  (tags: journalism citizenjournalism newspapper video)
• Announcing the launch of Journalism Enterprise.com « Online Journalism Blog
  And another one I've been meaning to write about for weeks
  (tags: journalism investment startups)
• Totally turn-key web sites and blogs - MovableType.org - Home for the MT Community
  You know that version of Movable Type I've sent the weekend installing? It has some cool new features...
  (tags: movabletype sixapart cms websites)
• Dead tree is dead : January 2008 : Damian Lanigan : Society : Telegraph Blogs
  I've been arguing for ages that print titles need to become beautiful objects to survive. Nice to have some support.
  (tags: newspapers magazines print)
• My Seesmic experiment with the US Elections. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
  Cool ideal.
  (tags: video seesmic elections politics journalism)
• Telegraph to become OpenID provider : January 2008 : Shane Richmond : Technology : Telegraph Blogs
  The Telegraph will be providing, and using, OpenID. Brilliant. Hope we will follow suit...
  (tags: openid comments identity)

• Incremental adjustments in radical times
  Inspired: "If you're a fedora-wearing film noir spy trying to keep an eye on somebody in some smoky 1950s hotel coffee bar, they're great for hiding behind. For the rest of us, broadsheets suck. "
  (tags: newspapers publishing formats)

• Disqus
  Interesting new tool. Not sure I want to pull comments out of Movable Type though.
  (tags: blogs forums comments commenters)

• Recut, Reframe, Recycle
  Good insights into why people repost videos, discovered almost as an aside in a report of the legality of it all.
  (tags: video sharing law mashups socialmedia)
• Why More Girls Don't Upload Video
  Interesting, if playing to the stereotypes.
  (tags: video videoblogging socialnetworking)
• social objects for beginners
  Does what it says on the tin
  (tags: socialobjects conversations discussions socialnetworks socialmedia)

Hey, there, my much-neglected but ever-beloved readers.

I've been having a quiet, and largely offline, Christmas with my family, and have been enjoying the break from all things bloggy. But I couldn't let 2007, the first year where my working life has been largely centred around blogging, pass without one last post.

First of all, thank you all for reading, linking and commenting. It's something of a cliché, but this blog really has changed my life and is continuing to do so all the time. Having a place where I can express ideas, discuss them and, yes, have them challenged is invaluable to me, especially as I try to communicate those ideas to other journalists. And the regulars here have been a huge part of that.

Thank you. I owe you all a drink. But, uh, not until I've paid off the Christmas debts, OK?

In the meantime, you can catch me guest posting on Deep Muck Big Rake and experimenting with a more essayist style of blogging over on Coffee & Complexity. And then you can catch me back here with my agenda for 2008 tomorrow.

In the meantime, a very Happy Hogmanay and a Fantastic New Year to everyone who has shared the last year's journey with me here on this blog. May 2008 bring you every happiness.

• Hands-on with Amazon's Kindle
  Shane Richmond from The Telegraph gets a Kindle and gives it a lukewarm review. Waiting for version 3, I think…
  (tags: kindle amazon ebooks readers books digitalpublishing)
• An editor critiques the publishing industry's Automated Content Access Protocol
  Oh, I should read this. It's making my eyes bleed, though.
  (tags: publishing publishers acap search technology)
• The decline of factory journalism
  Nice comparison there
  (tags: journalism journalists)
• NUJ: Multimedia commission reaction by andydickinson.net
  Basically positive response, with some serious reservations
  (tags: nuj journalism journalists multimediaworking)
• Highlighter-photoblogging the NUJ report - final part « Online Journalism Blog
  A more graphic response
  (tags: nuj journalism multimediaworking journalists)

• BBC NEWS | Technology | Broadband digital divide looms
  Not good news for those of us with a dual love of the countryside and the internet
  (tags: broadband countryside rurallife)
• 2026 Vision « CPRE Debates
  The Campaign to Protect Rural England is using a Wordpress blog to start a debate…
  (tags: rurallife countryside blogging blogs wordpress.com cpre)

• How the Guardian's award-winning website works
  A thought-provoking look at the worst aspect's of The Guardian's blogging experiments.
  (tags: theguardian commenters commentisfree opinion bloggers blogging nationalnewspapers)

• Are Hackers Exploiting WordPress Themes?
  The downside of the popularity and ubiquity of free Wordpress themes.
  (tags: wordpress blogs blogging security themes)
• How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek
  [Facebook] bears the hallmarks of the kind of pump-and-dump service that sees us as sticky, monetizable eyeballs in need of pimping. The clue is in the steady stream of emails you get from Facebook: "So-and-so has sent you a message." Yeah, what is it?
  (tags: facebook socialnetworks socialgraph privacy)
• Making money with Adsense - without annoying your users: Wordpress.com
  Short version: they run ads against your content, but only occasional users see them.
  (tags: adsense wordpress.com wordpress automattic money revenue blogging)
• Blogonomics 2007
  Are professional bloggers killing their interest value for revenue?
  (tags: blogs blogging bloggers)
• Close encounter with Facebook Beacon
  Nice example of the problem with Facebook Beacon
  (tags: facebook facebookbeacon money revenue dumb)
• FOE2 - Cult Media
  How the geeks conquered the media…
  (tags: tv film media creatives culture cult geek)
• Drupal Drops 6.0 Beta 3; Sports OpenID and Fancy Installer
  Drupal 6 is getting OpenID. Ooooh.
  (tags: openid blogs blogging drupal)
• New World Notes: Second Life User Activity Triples in Under a Year
  Coming out of the disillusionment phase, then…
  (tags: secondlife virtualworlds virtualcommunities)

• Blogger vrs Wordpress: Druids vs. Priests
  A Wordpress vrs Blogger fight like you've never seen it before…
  (tags: wordpress blogger blogging)

• First, it was retailers. Then, it was publishers. Now, it's the turn of marketers.
  Some thoughts on what advertising needs to do to survive.
  (tags: advertising marketing revenue)

• Whistling in the Dark - Okay....
  An LJ user predicts doom over another Livejournal User's attempts to get the US Government involved in the recent situation where Six Apart banned several fanfiction accounts for child porn-related content.
  (tags: fanfic sixapart livejournal legal blogging)

• This is Your Brain on Video Games | Mind & Brain | DISCOVER Magazine
  This week games are good for you…
  (tags: games society education)
• How Top Bloggers Earn Money
  Hmmm. There must be better ways.
  (tags: blogging bloggers money)
• Will The Last Corporation Leaving Second Life Please Turn Off The Light
  Gosh - imagine that. Lots of corporates jumped on a bandwagon without a clear plan of what it would do for them. And it failed. Shocking, I tell you, shocking.
  (tags: secondlife corporate coporateidiocy)
• Micro Persuasion: Crowdsourcing a New System for Measuring Influence (Beta)
  Oh, my. The issue of measuring authority and success on the web just gets ever more complicated.
  (tags: metrics influence links engagement authority audience)
• Blogging for dosh - Times Online
  There's gold in them there blogs…
  (tags: blogging bloggers money advertising)

• The Page View is Officially Dead
  Nielsen abandons the pageview
  (tags: metrics web web2.0 traffic pageviews)

• Danish PM is flirting with the blogosphere
  It's working its way into the political mainstream, isn't it?
  (tags: blogging politics denmark)

• Scary monsters: Does social software have fangs?. Strange Attractor: Picking out patterns in the chaos
  Long, but worth watching
  (tags: internalblogs internalwikis)
• AOL Launches AIM Widget for Blogs and Websites
  AOL has launched a new widget that will allow bloggers and website owners to interact with their users.
  (tags: blogs widgets IM AIM)

• NewTeeVee Kate Modern’s Web Video Dream Team «
  It's a whole new model of drama…
  (tags: video videoblogging drama newmedia bebo socialnetworks)
• Is 'transparency' a genuine value or corporate platitude?
  Simon Collister has some interesting thoughts about the Federated Media business (that went largely undiscussed in the UK - which is interesting in its own right)
  (tags: advertising pr marketing blogging)

• Anil Dash: Corey Spring and the Future of Journalism
  Interesting look at how some journalists are already starting to work
  (tags: journalism journalists technology web)
• Jim Roberts -- Talk to the Newsroom -- The New York Times -- Reader Questions and Answers - New York Times
  Intereting peek into how the NYT handles reader comments
  (tags: moderation socialmedia newspapers forums blogs comments)

• Suw Charman at Google: Does Social Software Have Fangs? at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)
  Interesting notes from a talk by Suw Charman
  (tags: blogs wikis internalblogs internalwikis business socialsoftware)
• blognation - one nation, many voices
  Looks interesting for a pre-alpha.
  (tags: blogs aggregation)

• RSS To Email: How To Let Readers Subscribe To Your RSS Feeds Via Email - Robin Good's Latest News
  (tags: rss blogs e-mail feedburner feeds tools email)

Some tips for Mr Brown on his first day in his new job.

UPDATE: And here's a marvellous picture of the about-to-be-PM on his way to his first day.

• Linkedin Claims Professional Social Network Domination
  LinkedIn CEO Dan Nye believes people will maintain two social networking profiles and that LinkedIn will dominate as the professional social network.
  (tags: linkedin socialnetworking socialnetworks business professionals)

• Voice Chat Can Really Kill the Mood on WoW
  How the introduction of voice chat completely change the nature of communities in online games
  (tags: games mmorpgs voice community communities communication identity wow)
• The Life of the Chinese Gold Farmer
  A fascinating looking into the unapproved online businesses that form around MMORPGs
  (tags: business games gaming internet money onlinegames wow mmorpgs goldfarming community china)

• Protest around Flickr "censorship" increases
  The dangers of plunging into the multi-lingual world and getting it wrong.
  (tags: flickr censorship germany)
• What other conferences can learn from Reboot
  Nice look at what makes a webby conference works - and what makes them struggle
  (tags: web2.0 conferences)
• At the NCAA, "Blog" Is a Four-Letter Word
  Key quote: "I also love the fact that I could sit at home, watch an NCAA event on TV, and blog about it from my living room, but the guy with media credentials at the game can't.  Absolutely hilarious."
  (tags: NCAA blogging liveblogging)

• SEOmoz | How to Deal with Pagination & Duplicate Content Issues
  Interesting note on how blog structure might be harming Google rankings
  (tags: seo search searchengines blogs blogging)
• Journalism rules: Here are the secrets
  Oh, so painfully true.
  (tags: journalism journalists)
• Let's make The Wurzels Number 1 (Field Day)
  What have I started?
  (tags: music thewurzels comedy)
• Blogs or diaries - postscript
  Post an opinion piece, or do it on a blog? Obvious really…
  (tags: blogging bbc columnists journalists)

• MTTags.com // A Handy Reference For Movable Type Template Tags
  Seriously handy
  (tags: movabletype templates blogging)

If you're growing just a little tired of the LOLcats fad, The Joy of Tech has the perfect response. (Arachnophobes probably shouldn't click that link.)

• Clickcomments
  An attempt to make comment signin easier. Might be a bit late in the face of OpenID.
  (tags: blogs blog blogging comments web2.0)
• IAB and UGC Morning Keynote
  Interesting report from the IAB seminar
  (tags: ugc socialnetworking socialmedia)
• Invisible Inkling » 10 obvious things about the future of newspapers you need to get through your head
  Great list! All editors need to read this.
  (tags: journalism publishing newspapers)
• London Geek Events Podcast
  Worth keeping up with…
  (tags: podcasts londongeekevents)

• Stop the NUJ boycott
  I have a love/hate relationship with the NUJ. It's been great at handling disputes colleagues have had with bosses, but when it does stupid political stuff, it runs the risk of further discrediting all journalists.
  (tags: NUJ journalism journalists)

• The Problem with Podcasting
  Some thoughts on what could be limiting the growth of podcasting
  (tags: podcasting youtube audio ipod rss)
• Skywalkers in Korea Cross Han Solo
  Best. Headline. Evar.
  (tags: headlines journalism)
• Guardian Unlimited - the next step
  Emily Bell explains the new look Guardian Unlimited front page. I find it a bit "ho hum" myself.
  (tags: web design guardian)
• Technology Review: The Secret of Apple Design
  Simple message: design by committee is bad, design by obsessive aesthete is excellent
  (tags: apple design)
• Dawkins transcendent
  Richard Dawkins: sci-fi deist. Fantastic journalism AND blogging from Ruth Gledhill, bringing a whole new dimension to what was becoming a tired debate.
  (tags: faith religion atheism blogging journalism)

• BBC appoints Microsoft man to control future media » Technovia
  Well, there goes any chance of a platform-agnostic strategy for BBC IPTV, then
  (tags: bbc microsoft video iptv)

• UGC threatens traditional media
  Does UGC threaten old media firms - or open the way for some really exciting transformation?
  (tags: ugc publishing media)
• The story of an illegal number
  There are now over 2 million online entries for an obscure hexadecimal number. Why? Because it's the key that allows you to unlock protected HD-DVD content.
  (tags: drm copyright UGC)
• RSS Mistakes people make « Scobleizer
  As more and more people move their reading behaviors to RSS aggregators we need to rethink our online branding.
  (tags: rss blogging branding subscriptions)
• Telegraph Blogs: UK: Re-cycle of Life: May 2007: Saving the earth one shed at a time
  "Going somewhere nice over the Bank Holiday?" I've now had three people ask me the same question over the course of the day: " Yes thanks. Can't wait, I'm off to the shed.
  (tags: green environment sheds)
• Forrester Research: Social Technographics®
  Forrester categorizes Social Computing behaviors into a ladder with six levels of participation;
  (tags: socialmedia participation audience)
• Micro Persuasion: Congressional Bill Advocates Shield Law for US Bloggers
  A section of the proposed Free Flow of Information Act advocates that certain bloggers receive a key legal protection that is currently reserved for journalists. This would relieve some of the legal risks that bloggers face every da
  (tags: bloggers journalism blogging law legal)

• No, Wi-Fi isn’t “a health time bomb” » Technovia
  Good response to the scare-mongering in the Indy last week.
  (tags: technology health wifi networking science)
• UK Blogosphere: Top 10 British Blogs
  An attempt to define the top 10 UK blogs based on feed subscriptions
  (tags: blogs blogging bloggers uk blogosphere)

• Make Internet TV
  (tags: video videoblogging iMovie publishing ugc)
• Microsoft smacks down new Media Player too... « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger
  (tags: video videoblogging microsoft)

• Video bloggers receive email from Apple - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  Intersting move.
  (tags: video videoblogging itunes vodcasting appletv)
• HOWTO: Rotate your video in QuickTime Pro
  Useful.
  (tags: video videoblogging)

• What is the Telegraph's Grander Scheme for social media?
  The Telegraph promotes commenters to bloggers. And there's more to come…
  (tags: blogs blogging nationalnewspapers newspapers commenters ugc)
• Diagram of a blog
  He he.
  (tags: blogs blogging bloggers comments)
• Doubts on claim that online users read more
  That survey showing that people read more online than on paper might not have shown that after all.
  (tags: online readers readership)
• How to Pose for Photos -- How to Look Skinny in Photos
  Having seen at least one unflattering pic of myself from Blogging4business, I shall be memorising this.
  (tags: photos photographs vanity)

• Sponsored WordPress Themes: A Great Business Model
  An interesting idea.
  (tags: blogs blogging sponsorship advertising design blogdesign templates)
• Code of conduct is for bullies
  Argument of startling clarity as to why some of the reaction to the recent "death threats in the blogsphere" hue and cry has gone too far
  (tags: blogs blogging behaviour politics blogosphere)

• Insurance Company Tell Law Firm They Won't Cover Blogs
  Insurance company refuses to cover legal firm blog. Interesting.
  (tags: blogs blogging law libel insurance)
• Adobe Launches a Colorful Social Network
  Adobe launches a very specialist social network. Cool niche.
  (tags: socialnetworking socialnetworks)

• BUBBLE: Alexa error triggers crisis of confidence - Valleywag
  Another reason not to touch Alexa with a very long stick.
  (tags: alexa webstats metrics traffic)

• web 1-2-3
  What a wonderful idea: Web 3.0 will be the linking of the physical and the virtual with location data underpinning networks.
  (tags: web3.0 location places networks socialnetworks)

• UK’s ‘Outdoor blogging’ taking off
  The blogging ramblers are coming (or is that the rambling bloggers?).
  (tags: blogs blogging uk outdoors nicheblogs)

• Google Guy: Those photos don’t matter as much as you think » Brazen Careerist
  Those Facebook semi-naked pics may not ruin your future career…
  (tags: recruitment socialmedia jobs work socialnetworking)

• the openness of blogging & 3 new blog friends
  How do you measure the social impact of social media? And how meeting people at events is most of the reason to be there.
  (tags: socialmedia blogging metrics)
• TextMate AutoTag bundle for WordPress - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)
  This is an interesting tool
  (tags: tags tagging metatags wordpress blogging blogs)
• BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Curtains down
  Another magazine dumps paper and goes online-only
  (tags: magazine magazines publishing paper print onlinepublishing journalism)

• 5 reasons that there is value in providing the link
  A really good argument in favour of linking out.
  (tags: journalism publishing magazines web websites linking)
• The poer of video + text
  How to get "professional" online video right and wrong
  (tags: video journalism videoblogging shovelware)

• New Media Literacies :: Media Producer Profile Number 06
  Learn to video blog…
  (tags: vodcasting podcasting videoblogging)

• Google Reader, MyYaoo, Bloglines, NewsGator and Netvibes Dominating Feed Market
  Some interesting figures on who dominates the RSS reader market.
  (tags: rss rssreaders atom feeds newsgator bloglines netvibes googlereader)
• Burning Questions • FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market
  And here's Feedburner's own figures on this
  (tags: rss rssraders atom feeds feedburner)
• Users Who Know Too Much And The CIOs Who Fear Them - Editorial - CIO
  This is a reality that corporates and, worse, corporate best practice, has yet to catch up with. And it needs to. Fast.
  (tags: technology work workplace corporate productivity security business IT management)
• Dynamo City Times - An Observation
  An interesting experiment for Lent
  (tags: lent faith food christianity)

• Bad form, LJ, bad form.
  Whoops. One Livejournal user notes that, since the Six Apart acquisition, Livejournal's ability to cater to non-US users has actually gone down.
  (tags: livejournal sixapart blogs blogging)

• Performancing Acquired by SplashPress Media at The Blog Herald
  (tags: blogging metrics performancing blogs)
• 13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck
  It was a great idea. It doesn't work.
  (tags: blogging search spam commentspam nofollow searchengines)
• AOL Supports OpenID
  AOL jumps on the OpenID bandwagon
  (tags: aol openid identity comments)
• Wifey's £70,000 book deal
  Another blogger gets a book deal - after only 6 weeks!
  (tags: books blogging success)
• Official Google Reader Blog: One subscriber, two subscribers, three...
  At last! Google is going to be reporting numbers of feed subscribers to feed providers.
  (tags: metrics rss atom feeds google googlereader)

• Kitten Fluff: Gamers get more sex
  Women gamers get laid more often. Allegedly.
  (tags: gaming pr sex)
• Shane Richmond: When is a blog not a blog?
  When it's from The Guardian, apparently… An interesting take on what makes a "real" blog
  (tags: blogs blogging newspapers theguardian thetelegraph)
• LIFT || A conference about technology in our society.
  Nice communal blog about the recent conference.
  (tags: technology society LIFT)
• Web Ink Now: Are MSM journalists one-way bloggers?
  Answer: too often, yes.
  (tags: journalists blogs blogging newspapers magazines)

• The Wizards of Buzz
  Nice look at the recommenders in the future.
  (tags: socialnetworking bookmarking promotion)

• Nobody wants less reporting
  Jeff Jarvis hits the nail on the head: the new media tools should drive up the standards of professional journalists, not drive them down.
  (tags: journalism journalists publishing media)
• Shut up about the "blogging community" already
  You can't hurry communities, no, you'll just have to wait…
  (tags: blogging communities socialnetworks)
• MySpace filters unauthorized videos
  MySpace introduces content filters. It begins…
  (tags: video copyright filtering myspace youtube)

• Addicted to Technology! at Climb to the Stars (Stephanie Booth)
  Are we addicted to technology? Do we really understand what is meant by technology? Do people only mean new technology when they use the term?
  (tags: addiction technology it lifestyle)
• "EU makes fake blogs and comments illegal: are all bloggers liable?" from The Intuitive Life Business Blog
  This could have serious implications in all sorts of ways. Who will police it? Who takes the blame?
  (tags: blogging blogs comments identity law EU)
• Martin Stabe » More bloggers for the UK journalist’s reading list
  Useful round-up of UK journo bloggers
  (tags: journalism journalists blogs bloggers)
• The Indie prepares to make a great leap sideways, from Macs to PCs
  The Independent prepares to migrate from ancient Macs to new PCs. Their "classic" equipment might well explain the paper's lack of web-savvy. The journalists can't see most of it....
  (tags: newspapers journalists theindependent macs pcs quark)

• O'Reilly Radar > OpenID on the Upswing
  Interesting. I must get around to enabling OpenID here.
  (tags: identity blog livejournal security sixapart vox web2.0 webservices)
• Autoblog gets photo galleries, and there was much rejoicing - Autoblog
  The AOL-owned Weblogs Inc gets photo galleries functionality
  (tags: blogs blogging photos galleries software platforms)
• LE WEB 3: Start Up Selection
  Winners of the start-up awards at Le Web 3. I was too exhausted at the end of the conference to even make notes about this.
  (tags: leweb3 web2.0 websites startups)

The Black Sheep blog asks the important questions this Christmas time.

• Do you know the 6 signs of blog death?
  Potentially useful "blog first aid" guide.
  (tags: blogs blogging readership traffic)
• House Price Bubble To Burst?
  More and more serious economists are predicting a downturn in the housing market. A serious one at that. I remember seeing people trapped with negative equity in the mid-90s. I shudder at the thought of those days returning.
  (tags: houses houseprices housing negativeequity residential property)

• Fifteen Ways to a Killer Blog With the Scobles
  More useful blogging hints from a husband and wife with very different blogging areas of expertise
  (tags: advice blogs blogging scoble)
• Six Apart ProNet Logo
  Something I must get around to sticking on my blog
  (tags: sixapart pronet blogs blogging)
• FT Alphaville
  How did I miss this? The FT is blogging
  (tags: blogs blogging ft financialtimes newspapers uk)
• It's the content, not the icons - (37signals)
  I spend time adding bookmarking links to my blog - and now I find it's all a waste of time. Great
  (tags: blogs blogging socialbookmarking bookmarking)

• Websnark: Time for the yearly Wikipedia bitching-out. After all, they've been *so* successful in the past, right?
  This is the problem with things like wikis: give people the power to be arbitrator on things they know nothing about, and it will be abused. This story is a great argument for niche wikis.
  (tags: webcomics wikipedia wiki wikis)
• Micro Persuasion: Quantcast is a Viable Alternative to Alexa
  An alternative to the problematic Alexa for measuring web stats?
  (tags: web analytics stats webstats quantcast alexa)
• 7 Ways to Optimize Your Blog - Folksonomy.org
  Some really good ideas about shaping your blog here
  (tags: blogs blogging design advice)
• seanbonner: Washington Post totally rips off BoingBoing
  Beware, print journalists. Make sure you're aware of internet precedents for you story, and that what you do is different enough that posts like this can't be written.
  (tags: blogging journalism journalists)

I've had a rather large number of tabs open in Firefox for two days now, waiting for me to get around to blogging about them. You know what? It's not going to happen. And so, inspired by the good Mr Micklethwait, I'm going to roll them into one big post and let you go away and enjoy them over the weekend.

First up is this rambling, but entertaining, review of the BBC's Jane Eyre and Robin Hood by Andrew Rilstone. I spend hours telling people that blog posts should be short and frequent, and then Andrew goes and demonstrates that the opposite works too. Bah. And, indeed, humbug.

Wordblog takes a look at UK national newspaper blogs, and finds them wanting. He's right in that there are some gems and clunkers out there, but how is that different from any other group of blogs you care to name? Perhaps the point is that, as they're written by professional journalists, the average quality should be higher than it is. But changing someone's working mindset is no easy task.

Robert Scoble proposes that we need to start measuring a website's traffic in a new way: by their level of engagement. In many ways, the current system of measuring "hits" and "unique visitors" is mired in the print past, where we could measure how many copies were sold, but not how well read they were. TV has something approaching this, with its audience appreciation figures, but it's even more important in an online world where people are actively doing stuff on websites, nut just reading them.

I learn, via Jackie Danicki, of a list of the top 100 UK blogs. I'm surprised by how few I read, and even more so by how few I want to start reading, having perused the list in some depth.

Simom Robinson tears into the US subsidy of biofuels and the potential harm it's doing to the environment over on the Big Biofuels Blog. [Full disclosure: this is one of the blogs I'm helping set up for my employer. I'm only plugging it because I found the story interesting, though. And the blog is very much in beta. Things like a blogroll and a nice design will come.]

Dave Winer's idea for an Old Girlfriend Query tool shows more understanding of the way people actually use the web than I've seen in a long time.

Roy Greenslade's report on Tunisia's spat with Qatar over Al-Jazeera reminds me of the sheer level of fear of an Islamic revolution that many Tunisians seemed to have when we were over there on holiday last year.

And finally, I couldn't resist this:

• Movable Type Enterprise 1.5 Launched
  (tags: movabletype sixapart blogs blogging)
• Naked Conversations: Biz 2.0, blogging and Singing Sows
  Business 2.0 journalists being paid to blog
  (tags: blogging journalists)
• Josh Quittner - I Want Media
  More on the journalists being paid to blog.
  (tags: blogging journalism business2.0)
• Glass House : What Replaces Media?
  What replaces the local reporter?
  (tags: journalism blogging)
• NYT Can Embed YouTube, too - Media SITREP
  The New York Times embeds a YouTube video...
  (tags: newspapers nytimes youtube linking)