links for 2010-08-11

Very passable match report from an 11 year old :-)

"Sadly, the map highlights for me that I don’t have a very wild lifestyle in E17"

"If you’re a young journalist sitting around wondering what you can do right now to make yourself more attractive to potential employers, here it is: blog. Blogging is very much the basis for all web communication and by blogging regularly, you will incidentally pick up several other skills that will look good on a résumé". Although you will still occasionally run across people going "Urgh! Blogging! Well you clearly can't be a journalist or do journalistic endeavour on a blog. I mean, what would be point of improving your writing, web communication, social media marketing and community management skills in the early 21st century?"

"Today the Echo has illustrated its [Southampton] match report with pictures of a 1987 clash between the two sides". It is a serious issue, but I am loving the humour and inventiveness with which a bunch of papers are tackling it.

"The Guardian's Information Architect, Martin Belam, provides a glimpse behind the scenes at the design process of our World Government Data store."

Props to Hayley Dunlop who was first in my Twitter stream to call it fake...

"A meme doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment is seeking to compile the silliest Wifi network names in London"