links for 2009-03-11

• So what would a Guardian OpenPlatform do for me? Well I’ll have a BMW ad please, Alan, and you can have a Hatters match report by way of return… » Out With A Bang
  "So one Guardian API later and I’ve got hyper-national advertising to elegantly mix with my addiply hyper-local advertising and I’ve got hyper-national and local syndication deals as we merrily ‘data’ swap with content partners both sideways and upwards. Job done". Thoughts on what a two-way API and revenue model could do for the diminishing local reporting on local lower league football.
  (tags: football guardian outwithabang guardianopenplatform)
• A tale of two cities: From new media in London to old media in Manchester in 30 minutes | Jon Slattery
  "I had a somewhat surreal day working for Press Gazette yesterday which took me from the brave new media world to the reality of what is facing regional newspapers, all within the same company."
  (tags: guardian jonslattery manchestereveningnews)
• New K9 Model - The First Picture | Outpost Gallifrey
  "Here is the first picture of the K9 model that features in the spin-off series currently being filmed in Australia". Still not a patch on the red lego version of K9 that I built myself as a child ;-)
  (tags: doctorwho outpostgallifrey k9)
• Madeleine McCann's father Gerry calls for tighter press regulation | UK news | guardian.co.uk
  "McCann told MPs that it became a cause for concern that he was in dispute with Express Newspapers when the Express editor Peter Hill was sitting on the board of the press watchdog. Hill subsequently left the PCC board. 'I did think it was surprising that the editor of the paper that had so flagrantly libelled us could be a representative of the PCC,' McCann said".
  (tags: newspapers guardian pcc madeleine regulation)
• Points Of View - New on topic era! - BBC - MESSAGE BOARD
  More great stuff on POV. The host posts something that people have been asking for - clarification on what is considered off topic on the TV board. Post two says "no-one is under any illusion it will make any difference". Post three calls it censorship and blames Nick Reynolds. Post 6 decides it is all just a BBC conspiracy to promote "beastly blogs" anyway.
  (tags: bbc messageboards pointsofview)
• Ten Publishing Principles for BBC Online | Seetha Kumar | BBC Internet Blog
  "These principles are based on a looser set which has existed for a couple of years (and can still be found on Tom Loosemore's blog) but I have tightened them up". All smart points.
  (tags: bbc bbcinternetblog publishing guidelines bbconline)
• Three reasons why Twitter is useless to me as a journalist | David MacLean
  David is on Twitter himself, and quite right in this blog post, because, frankly, if telegram, telex and fax are good enough to get in touch with my tips and neighbours, why should I consider using anything else? More seriously, he cites the fact that by using Facebook he can reach a couple of thousand of local people, but that he's only found about 3 on Twitter. I'd counter that at one point, that Facebook group *also* only had 3 members.
  (tags: journalism twitter)
• Politicians twitter while the country burns | Rachel Sylvester - Times Online
  That Rachel Sylvester Twitter article from The Times.
  (tags: internet timesonline politics twitter)

• Politicians and Twitter: why The Times is wrong | Lynne's Parliament and Haringey diary
  "But what's really wrong with the piece is the idea that politicians shouldn't move with the time. I don't send telegrams. My campaign team has no carrier pigeons. I hardly ever use a classical reference in my speeches. And that's because I'm not a Victorian politician. Times change. The public changes. Today - 2009 - many of my constituents and other people are on Twitter - and so it makes sense for me to be too. If that's how they choose to get information, it's not a lack of identity that makes me honour those choices - it's respect for the public". I read my MPs comments after seeing her tweet about it and use the amusing URL http://tinyurl.com/wrongwrongwrong to link to her blog post.
  (tags: timesonline twitter liberaldemocrat lynnefeatherstone)
• The 50 Publishers That Blogs Link To Most | Silicon Alley Insider
  Guardian.co.uk at #6 - can do better - API goodness yesterday will help!
  (tags: newspapers guardian blogs siliconalleyinsider)

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