links for 2011-02-24

I'm part of the panel answering questions on the guardian Careers site today

Dan Sabbagh making some great points about what the Media Standards Trust new baby, Churnalism, does and doesn't tell us about journalistic process

"The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collection of audio features and metadata for a million contemporary popular music tracks."

"If someone has a legitimate issue, do everything you can to work through it, offer an individualized solution, apologize and give them space to like you again. A reasonable person will work with you, and although they may never be your advocate or use your product again, they will recognize that you tried to help."

"We are UX designers not UX artists. We design for a purpose"

It appears that most things are currently on the way to being dead, or are about to be saved. Journalism is, I believe, in both camps at once

Adam Tinworth's take on the live blogging debate opened up by that The Louse & The Flea blog post

Ex-Guardian blogs editor Kevin Anderson follows up on the debate about the value of Guardian live blogging