links for 2010-01-26

"The Huffington Post briefly sported a page for apparently every single Twitter user on which their tweets were republished. Each user was also given their own, special HuffPo URL". File under when limited beta testing goes rogue...

The full text of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's Hugh Cudlipp lecture.

"Journalists are to pair up with online developers at a sold out one-day event led by ScraperWiki, the new web platform for publishing data. A mix of some of the UK's best known developers and journalists from major media organisations will come together at a 'hackday' in London on 29 January". Excellent.

Interesting thoughts about how the documentation used for animation might have a role in UX definition. I don't have any of the answers, but an intriguing idea.

"I used to argue that companies should not surrender their brand to consumers, but should share it. Some things require careful branding and messaging, some things should be more open and participatory and a lot of things are simply beyond the company’s control. Domino’s has raised the stakes by inviting consumers to trash talk the company and its pizza. I wonder what’s next?". Dominos new campaign takes as a starting point the fact that their product is rubbish. Bold? Or suicidal?

"The upshot was: everyone agreed that linked data could, potentially, be pretty exciting. It could enable much better and broader linking, it could help people discover the provenance of data, it could enable news to evolve much more dynamically than it does now, it could even do good things for SEO".

"More than 90pc of English councils are publishing their own newspapers - and almost half of them carry advertising, a study has revealed."