links for 2010-11-05

Julie Starr offers a comprehensive round-up of paywall reactions

Another blog post about internal newspaper links to topic pages

If you are dreaming about your own news site, you are not alone: hyperlocal sites are popping up everywhere. At ONA10 last week in Washington, D.C., veterans of the hyperlocal scene shared they experiences, both successes and failures.

'The Qatari Fifa executive committee member Mohamed Bin Hamman echoed that view and had already written on his blog that he considered the investigation "unethical". "Forging identity, fabricating evidence and setting traps are unethical behaviours in my point of view," he wrote. "One thing about Middle East media, these are rare happenings there"'. Said a man sitting in a country ranked 121st for press freedom out of 178 countries in the world. I think I'll take my lectures on media ethics from elsewhere, thank you.

"A contingency plan, in the form of a speech to be read out by Nixon should astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become stranded on the moon, never to return".