Additional links for Tuesday

Posted by Martin Stabe on 10 October 2006 at 19:57
Tags: 18 Doughty Street, Blogs, Daily Telegraph, Digg, E-paper, IPTV, Journalism, Sunday Telegraph, Telegraph.co.uk, Wikis

• Virtual Economics: Exploding the myth of the read/write web
  Seamus McCauly looks at the latest evidence of “participation inequality” — the fact that a tiny number of heavy users produce most of the material on user-generated and interactive web sites
• Shane Richmond: News from nowhere (part I and part II)
  Telegraph.co.uk’s news editor looks at the problems that the newspaper faces in the age of e-paper and unbundled content in the first part of a must-read essay. Part II has some recommended solutions.
• Dan Gillmor frets that “most won’t listen” to Doc Searls’ list of 10 suggestions for online newspapers. Maybe in America — but isn’t most of what Searls suggested rapidly becoming the conventional wisdom in (most) British newsrooms? Besides, the most radical idea about what the web can do for journalism— Adrian Holovaty’s “news as structured data” theory — was missing from the list(s) of suggestions.
• Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Susan D. Moeller and Moisés Naím remind everyone what really matters while all eyes are on Google and YouTube: “The fascination with the transformational effect of all this makes it easy to forget what is essential to the information process: traditional ‘old media’ messengers such as Anna Politkovskaya.”
• 18 Doughty Street launches tonight at 8pm.

Tags: 18 Doughty Street, Blogs, Daily Telegraph, Digg, E-paper, IPTV, Journalism, Sunday Telegraph, Telegraph.co.uk, Wikis