links for 2008-02-13

City University London is seeking to fill 5 new lecturer positions

“We’re not simply looking at the byline or the source, but instead we analyze every word in every story to understand what location the news is about and where the source is located.”

Shiny now employs 20 full-time staff and another 30 freelancers, initially funded through advertising and now profit-making after investment from BrightStation Ventures saw the site’s audience increase to 3.5 million users each month.

“Aside from featuring only viewer submissions on the site, users will act as their own editors as well, in contrast to the control CNN exercised over what viewer material to run on cable…”

News sites offering discussions should wear their rules on their sleeve, making them visible to anyone who might want to take part, rather than hiding their rules behind a link

Publish2’s mission is to bring all of the world’s journalists onto one common web platform and community, one that empowers journalists to discover, organize, and rank the most important news…

Automattic, the commercial arm of the popular WordPress publishing platform for blogs, has received $29.5 million in financing from four companies, including a small portion from The New York Times Company.

“While the Web site offers users the option to deactivate their accounts, Facebook servers keep copies of the information in those accounts indefinitely. Indeed, many users who have contacted Facebook to request that their accounts be deleted have not suc

“Now, most people won’t get why this is such a big deal. But it is a big deal. Your personal data, especially on the web, is something that will be increasingly valuable to corporate and government interests – and increasingly important (and, perhaps, dif

I love this video as it raises a lot of serious issues that arise when media and news companies ask their audiences to contribute stories, photos and video. Unfortunately, the video disappears from youtube as it’s Viacom copyright.

A” new survey, just out, conducted by the University of Maryland on behalf of the American Newspaper Guild (the US equivalent of the NUJ) and the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians, indicated growing apprehension about the future

Whether it’s health fears, the price of living in a remote area or simply a choice not to, there are plenty of reasons why an estimated 14% of the UK adult population goes without.

“As our new e-Engagement Specialist, you’ll devise and implement online strategies to better interact with our supporters and further engage and inspire them….What’s more, you’ll understand the principles behind sustaining online communities..”

In order to meet the requirements of the brief you will have an excellent understanding of the social internet, forums, and internet technologies along with knowledge of social (web 2.0) trends and methods for encouraging user participation.

Yahoo’s Ryan Kuder was canned today. A drag for him, but a gift for the rest of us–because he Twittered it. A new form of literature is in the making…

A friday gathering of social media people. Sadly, I can’t make it this time.

No new spying powers proposed with virtual worlds, no new danger for civil liberties, no emerging paranoia from the CIA or identifying virtual worlds as a hotbed of Al-Qa’eda activity.

“Local journalism is supposed to be all about community, but local journalists’ relationships with communities online are for the most part non-existent, or one-way. How many local journalists have blog patches that they regularly track and engage with?”

Noted journalist/programmer/Web guru Adrian Holovaty just launched EveryBlock. As the site’s name implies, it strives to provide information about every block of the three cities it covers. Included data might include crime reports, civic inspections and

“a conversation between some of the world’s leading thinkers about the future of privacy, intellectual property, competition, innovation, globalization, and other areas of the law undergoing rapid change due to technological advancement”

“…we’re learning about bookmarking, blogging and social networking, and then later today we’ll do photos and audio interviews.”

“the local section… did a pretty remarkable job of pulling together news from most of the local outlets, including radio-station websites … as well as newspapers… although it did pick up stories from as far away as Kingston and Montreal, so it’s n

“Josh has a great rundown of why Twitter works for news, including the fact that it’s fast, it’s open, and it’s two-way — and Patrick makes many of the same points.”

“I created a variety of higher quality feeds…aggregated similar sources into a single feed, such as all of the 2.0 sites (like Read/WriteWeb, Techcrunch, Mashable, GigaOm…) …ran it through AideRSS. So, Sam has a column with the 2.0 news and it’s t

Share pictures, music, video, and other files with friends using Twitter.

Easily provide new means for people to access your content (such as RSS). You can use Dapper to create feeds, widgets, and APIs with your content and links.