links for 2008-11-19

"They know if the BBC steals local press audiences with bumped up websites, it could lead to lower ad revenues and threaten their jobs. On the other hand, if they are going to lose their jobs anyway because of the rise of the web they wouldn't half like to work for the BBC's local websites."

"The [Labour] party has also agreed an Obama-style fundraising campaign, using the internet to attract small donations and trading on the commitment that the money will only be used for campaigning."

A-ha, this new site promises the possibility that mainstream journalists will finally see the real value of social media!

"One reader sent me details of his long and tortuous dispute with Barclays, inviting me to apologise for a failure to expose the bank's directors as a bunch of vindictive pocket-picking scoundrels! He did not call for them to be flogged, but only, I suspect, because he ran out of paper."

Great release of archive material about the creation of Doctor Who.

"If TV executives and technologists can appreciate the strengths of what each can offer - the (still) dominance of linear television brands and the emerging sophistication of on-demand technologies will compliment each other."

Great post from Alpha Mummy - sample quote: "'Barbara' couldn't even get the dolls to have $e* in character, for crying out loud. What kind of an amatuer were my girls working with?"

"Digital piracy is viewed by many as simply a more convenient alternative to obtaining content from most legal online channels. 'Obviously I would prefer to use legal services but none of them can currently compete with the illegal ones,' said one person who was surveyed. 'The chance of getting caught is so minute as to be a non-concern.'"

From the "You couldn't make it up files" - Littlejohn rants at Barnardo's for projecting 'the exasperated outpourings of bloggers on to adults as a whole' with their campaign to stop teenage children being demonised, suggesting real people don't call real kids animals. On the Mail's online front page at the very same time: "'Feral' boy, 14, stabbed man with broken beer bottle after he refused to buy him alcohol"