links for 2011-07-06

Paul Haine continues to develop his Guardian for iPad HTML5 whizzy thing.

Erm. Right-ho.

Screen grab from last night of Times readers using the comment thread on tonight’s NOTW phone-hacking story to quit their subscriptions.

Classy - @MrHarryCole retweets a link to my Tumblr screen grab of Times subscribers quitting over NOTW scandal, but takes the effort to link directly to the image on Amazon, rather than direct people to my Tumblr.

Some people don't think newspapers should be able to hold two positions on an issue, but I enjoy that digital publishing allows for much more comment and opinion from a broader range of voices. This is an excellent piece in the Telegraph that highlights a concern I share, that the ineffective nature of the PCC means we are sleepwalking towards the creation of OFFPRESS...

...whilst this piece suggesting the BBC has over-reported the phone hacking due to anti-News International bias has been ripped to shreds in the comments. I think individual news sites having plurality of opinion is a good thing though - long may it be possible to host contradictory blogs from different staff or contributors on the same issue.

"What do you think of our mobile site m.guardian.co.uk? What improvements and features would you like? Let us know"

"Web publishing has spawned a parlor game for media reporters, partisan bloggers and others who closely follow the news: finding stuff that’s been deleted or changed on news sites and figuring out why. Points are awarded to the person who notices and cites exactly what was removed or changed. Bonus points for a screen shot". Good essay on a problem I've blogged about before - how to provide useful accountabili without noting every fixed typo

Uncannily similar to the kind of things we used to get in the record store too... :-)