Bank Holiday catchup

Best Easter-related wacky headline over the Bank Holiday perdiod goes to tech web site The Register, which graced RSS feeds with “Godless North Korean commies ate my monster rabbits“.

Other things we learned over the past four days include:

Journalists at the Business 2.0 received their first blog bonuses. Since late last year, editor Josh Quittner has required reporters to blog at the monthly technology business magazine, but also announced that they would earn a chunck of the additional revenue generated by their blogs. The top earners in Quittner’s incentive scheme took home “several thousand” dollars. Others received less than $100 and a suggestion that it might be a good idea to change their blog’s topic.
ACPO guidelines on the treatment of photojournalists that currently apply in London are to be extended nationwide, according to Amateur Photographer.
Germany’s Die Welt went web-first earlier in the year. New figures show its web traffic up 40 per cent — month-on-month.
Journalists sacked from the Santa Barbara News-Press in California have started a rival local news web site, the Santa Barbara Newsroom. Other online hacks are underwhelmed with the site’s riveting headlines like “Measure D Vote Could Impact County’s Share of Bond Money”.

Also worth reading:

Wharton analysis of WashingtonPost.com. To the business school academics, the site’s success raises more qustions than it answers, because it generates 14.5% of total ad revenue. “Washingtonpost.com … is an enthusiastic tail on a very large dog,” they argue.
(Update: The report also reveals that Washingtonpost.com is set to launch social networking functions later this spring. Readers will be able to set up their own pages and possibly upload their own audio and video at some point in the future.)
Steve Outing’s look at hyperlocal news models, particularly the ideas underlying Ouside.in.