links for 2010-08-26

"I read it again. How? Adobe Flash? Javascript? HTML? Hold on... Am I reading the right ad? Are they looking for a technology-savvy journalist?, or a journalism-savvy programmer? What kind of hybrid is The Times looking for?...I began to suspect that what the New York Times was looking for was not a simple human being, but a computer."

"It seems no other dead-tree newspaper has embraced the digital era as fully as the Guardian". Time has us sandwiched between The Onion and Sesame Street in their best 50 websites. Not quite sure what that says about us...

"Today's regional newspaper circulation figures make for grim reading. It takes a historical perspective to see how grim". Depressing figures, but the article has sparked one of those comment threads where a good discussion has developed.

There's a joke in there about old school journalists being willing to post a story on the basis of a tiny self-selecting sample that is statistically invalid because the result happens to support their editorial line, and new school journalists not doing that because...well, you get the idea.

Ooh, Vince Clarke, whose records I have been listening to for 30 years, is on Twitter.