links for 2010-03-04

"In a discussion of public space in the digital age, the review talks about the 'vast and unruly world of the blogosphere'". Maybe they only looked at BBC News Have Your Say?

"Lord mayor Judith Elliott imposed a tweeting ban at last Wednesday's full council meeting in Leeds Civic Hall and insisted all electrical equipment in the chamber should be switched off - effectively banning people from using social media or live blogging the proceedings. The YEP has today done an interesting article on councillors' reaction to the ban. It would've been nice if the YEP had mentioned me, given I'm where the whole issue started and I was the only journalist it affected, but hey ho - good to see they've featured the issue anyway!"

I tried to submit my response to the BBC Trust, but they obviously didn't take too kindly to what I was saying...

"Incidentally, some of the twitterati have been equating The Times’s sales figures (611,894) with BBC 6 music’s audience of 695,000 people, and smugly pointing to 6 music being more popular. False. That number for 6 music is a weekly figure, not a daily one; and more than one person reads each copy of a newspaper."