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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?