links for 2006-11-08

Posted by Martin Stabe on 8 November 2006 at 17:23
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• BuzzMachine: Google and newspapers
  “Google is a reality. Arguing about whether it is friend or foe will do no more good than sitting back and watching it do what you should be doing.”
  (tags: google newspapers advertising classifieds societyofeditors)
• Manchester Evening News: Digital age needs to be embraced -Editor
  MEN editor Paul Horrocks has made his inaugural speech as the new president of the Society of Editors.
  (tags: societyofeditors manchestereveningnews paulhorrocks)
• The Herald: Council staff stage pay deal protest at Kelvingrove event
  The Glasgow civic dinner for the Society of Editors at Kelvingrove event was picketed by council workers protesting changes to their pay structure.
  (tags: societyofeditors kelvingrove glasgow)
• The Herald: BBC extends the hand of friendship to local papers
  “The BBC wants to extend the hand of friendship to news-papers and even pay them to provide news content, director-general Mark Thompson said yesterday.”
  (tags: societyofeditors bbc newspapers regional television)
• Guardian: Second Life gets its first tabloid
  Germany’s Axel Springer, publisher of the redtop Bild, is to launch Second Life’s first tabloid - in English. And it will have an in-game editorial office.
  (tags: secondlife newspapers bild)
• Mathew Ingram: Editors still clueless about Google News
  Mathew Ingram of Canada’s Globe & Mail says it is no wonder newspapers are in trouble when editors like Andew Neil are “still clueless” about how Google works.
  (tags: societyofeditors google googlenews newspapers online)
• AP: What are online RSS feeds?
  Seth Sutel of the Associated Press has put together a useful primer on RSS>
  (tags: rss associated_press ap)

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