Words Dept.: entry

A selection of my latest bookmarks. You could visit my Tumblelog for more stuff I’ve seen on the web.

• Nik Hewitt: Can local newspapers still win at digital? – “Digital is where we should be driving traffic, where we can provide the excellent journalistic content we have in abundance to a targeted online audience.”
• Malcolm Coles: Do blogs make reporting restrictions pointless? – Bloggers couldn’t find out about the Alfie Patten reporting restrictions, even if they wanted to
• CounterValue: The BBC won’t save local papers – nobody can “The local press’s problems are of its own making. They will not be solved by Andy Burnham, the BBC or anybody else. Some centres of publishing will survive but we should brace ourselves for a mining-style industrial death.”
• Robin Brown: What would my Twitter page look like if I were a social media evangelist? Successfully nails the key Twitter habits of the “social media evangelist”. “Website/ebook logo and contact information partially obscured by the bit where updates go. All writing slightly bitmapped.” Etc.
• Newspapers last bastion against political corruption says David Simon, creator of The Wire – “If you don’t have a product that you’re charging for, you don’t have a product. If you think that free is going to produce something that’s as much of a cost centre as good journalism – because it costs money to do good journalism – you’re out of your mind.”