links for 2011-02-22

The Guardian's in-house counsel Gill Phillips gives her legal take on the WikiLeaks phenomenon.

"From my point of view, it just showed how some people didn’t really get the way that journalism is going, certainly in terms of the idea of community. The blog and community strategy are geared up to talking to a smaller section of society but having a very intense relationship with those people, giving them the info they want in return for their involvement and input. That’s what the best B2B magazines do, that’s what very good blogs do."

Karen's take on the conflict that can be caused when IAs pay too much attention to constraints, and designers pay too little heed to realism

Thoughtful blog post from Silver, drawing this conclusion: "The main issue for the semantic web/linked data is cost incurred due to the current lack of expertise, the barrier to learning new things (in places complicated and unintuitive things), and the relative immaturity of the technologies. With time this will change and savings made from the ease of integrating disparate data sets and the value of mining the ‘raw material of this information economy’ will justify the costs."

There is some fascinating stuff in the comments on Aleks' piece as well now.

"Many U.S. students have little understanding of or interest in the world outside our national borders, and journalism students are no exception. How many journalism programs address this in a meaningful way? The narrow view of journalism students extends to working journalists, and from them, it extends throughout the American public". You'd think curiosity about the whole world would be a prerequisite. Depressing.

Topical dataset from the Datablog

"P.S. We’d we be glad to deliver Readability for iOS – with in-app purchasing – if you’d carve out 70% from your 30% fee and share it with writers and publishers, just as we do".