links for 2010-02-04

It's the new thing! Ask me anonymous questions! Or just email me directly from a sockpuppet address and achieve the same thing!

According to this FOI response, Waltham Forest Council's newspaper is budgeted to cost £629,000 in 2009/10 - £86k on salaries, and over £500k on distribution.

I don't know. I was too melancholy to get to the end of the article...

"Marina Solodkin, a member of the opposition Kadima party in the Israel parliament Knesset wants to limit the free distribution of newspapers to no more than a year". Interesting, in the UK it is a knee jerk response to say that because the BBC is giving news away for free, the industry can't make money from it. It seems that for some people in Israel, it is the free newspapers that are causing the problem.

More bile about the French from The Sun.

"We've identified 10 themes that we think characterize many journalism statements of principle. We'd really like some feedback on whether these are right, if ten is too many, if there are any big themes missing, and which ones have most relevance to the web."