links for 2010-11-08

I've contributed one of the stories to Jan Jursa's UX Storytellers project, and blogged a little about it here...

...and I've published a set of some of the sketches and wireframes from the project on Flickr

"Alongside current pieces from writers such as Christopher Hitchens and an interesting piece about piracy off the coast of Somalia and elsewhere by Matthew Power, there are excerpts from Herodotus, Thomas de Quincey, Raymond Chandler, Maximilien de Robespierre, Plato, Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Albert Camus, Jack the Ripper and many more. They are brought to life further by a great range of quite graphic historic paintings and photographs. The magazine’s like an ice core sample – a little slice from each epoch – that helps explain what’s happening today and reminds us that our issues aren’t all new. It’s context on a grand scale. History on a plate. I love it."

"Our approach to news is partly to blame here. There is an attack culture in modern journalism which it is easy for lobbyists to exploit. To get attention from the media nowadays, all you have to do is say the opposite of conventional wisdom."

"To hear that my journalism lecturer friend is finding his students to be generally lazy and uncreative was a genuine shock: I recall being raring to get out into my first newsroom, to report on the community around me, to make a positive difference".

Mark Colvin interviews Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger, who talks about mutualised journalism in this transcript

"Shameless" was the print headline on this Daily Mail story, venting outrage that someone could spread racist smears about immigrants. I mean, fancy, where would they find that sort of story...