links for 2009-02-16

"But what’s depressing about this latest offering out of the back of Lord Carter’s ‘Digital Britain’ thinking is the implication that we are beholden to seek the answers from the Newspaper Society. And no-one else? Where in any of this is someone having the common courtesy to actually sit down with a group of regional news consumers and to ask them what works in 2009? In their opinion, is the best way for them to find news of their local planning applications to wait once a week for the privilege of paying 60p for the Beccles & Bungay Journal and then having to trawl our way to page 46 of said organ to find out what’s happening in NR14?"

"Sometimes even the most useful things aren’t that obvious to the people who will benefit the most from them. And so it is with Twitter and journalists it seems". Loved point #5 - 'Objection: I don’t have anything to say that would interest anyone else. Answer: Are you in the right job?'

Considering how worried Blue Peter were about calling a cat "Cookie", I'm surprised that the product angle O2 & LG have taken here is that this is the cheapest touchable white cookie on the market...

My point about how embarrassing it is that Boris Johnson is holding the Olympic flag on behalf of London and supporting Carol Thatcher's "right to be racist in the privacy of her own workplace" crossed the Atlantic...

"People should think twice before pressing the send button. They might also bear in mind that anonymous commenting's days are numbered, according to my more techy friends: 'Open identity is the future and it's on its way.' This means no more adults calling children sluts and that's okay by me". India Knight writes about my failed PCC complaint about the Mail allowing reader's to call a 13 year old a slut online.

Etan, who is studying a London’s City University, joins some of the dots about recent press coverage of children