links for 2009-12-10

"As the Guardian is reporting today, more than 40,000 further pages of MPs expenses claims have just been released. Help us go through the documents to find the best stories. We'll be adding more MPs and assignments as the day goes on". A new version of our crowd-sourcing MP Expenses app, with an even more game-like experience this year. Rather than getting documents at random, you are encouraged to sign up for specific assignments.

"Snell's substantive point about the split is still relevant here. Journalism - the process of putting news into context and explaining its relevance - is what counts. Our audiences, in print and online, tacitly acknowledge that by choosing one title rather than another."

"Princeton students, faculty, staff and their families are invited to attend the Frist Campus Center Winterval, a celebration of the upcoming winter season". Princeton is having Winterval next week! Genius!

"The promise for hyperlocal’s place in UK news is there, the boundless optimism is not in doubt and there’s even hints of a local business model emerging. But the delivery of quality post-code level news across most of the country still a long way off, and sustainable revenues and—dare we say it—profits are even further."

"What is particularly ironic is that the MP’s dismissal of hyperlocal blogs as being incapable of monitoring local power should be reported verbatim by… a website. As for the commercial media, they only reported what Michael Grade had to say. Tittle tattle."

Interview with Rebecca Lovell, a Guardian video producer, talking about her career.

"Release" 2,500 staff, and record second ever highest profits. You can't argue with "success".