links for 2008-05-09

“publishers and brands increasingly need to collaborate, working with specialist firms to develop their products quickly and more effectively. Niche networks will become increasingly popular as users seek a more specialised experience and focused communit

I thought I’d lost this article, which I wrote in 1999 for the Independent, about a group of European activists who used the internet to keep an opposition radio station on air during the NATO bombarbment of Belgrade.

“Some have called it “link journalism” – the very act of gathering sources as an act of journalism itself. Others point to the way the internet can make journalism more transparent.”

that hand journalists once used to polish ‘the story’ can instead be held out to guide readers, listeners and viewers through their selection of facts, context and background and not ours.