links for 2010-08-06

"The entities formerly known as newsrooms -- Gannett calls them 'Information Centers' -- will oddly enough be more closely coupled to their websites than their print products. Their world will be inverted. They will be paying more attention to metadata -- classification, tagging, geocoding, the elements of the semantic Web. None of this suggests that visual journalists aren't important, or that design isn't part of storytelling. But we need to be much more judicious about where and how we expend these resources. As I've often said, a well-designed system allows the human override of default behaviors, but does not require human intervention. Focus your design energies where they will pay off."

"Are you sketching? There are so many ways and reasons for journalists and web technologists to sketch that you may be making your work harder by not doing so."

"Anybody still wondering what effect Richard Desmond's purchase of Channel 5 would have on the independence of journalists on his Express and Star newspapers, look no further".

A sobering and moving set of images from the First World War in this very well produced 'audio slideshow' about war poet Siegfried Sassoon

"I just tried to find the blog posts I wrote about Wave - and discovered that there weren't any. That's a pretty good sign that I didn't care."

"Creating and maintaining a corporate blog isn't always the easiest of tasks and doesn't come naturally to most people. There are a lot of considerations to take into account -- theme, topics, audience, content, design, writers, multimedia, promotion, writing style, comment policies and so on. Above and beyond all of that, you also need to consider the blog's name and URL."

Promo leaflet for the band from Capitol Records in the States after Creep had appeared on Beavis & Butt-Head