links for 2010-10-01

"The Press Complaints Commission has launched a new advertising campaign to raise awareness of its services. This is a positive move by the commission which is often criticised for being too low profile."

"If you want to follow a news story as it happens, then it makes sense to check a ScribbleLive page for updates, but if it’s days or weeks later, then a more digestible news article is probably more attractive. But the company’s long-term goal is to erase that boundary. In other words, De Monte wants a ScribbleLive page to become that definitive news article, not just a liveblog that’s only relevant for a few hours".

Prevent accidental exposure to the Mail with this soothing kitten-based Firefox extension

Thoughtful post from James Kelway on what he made of this year's EuroIA experience. I have some more blog posts about some of the sessions to come next week...

Behind the paywall Ruth Gledhill has become a one-woman RSS-to-email publishing script...

A call to arms for educational establishments to start equipping student journalists for 21st century media, including the great line: "Frankly, looking to most newsrooms for best online practice is like visiting a glue factory to learn about race horses".

I missed this earlier in the year. A great essay about trying to teach the importance of UX to a bunch of high school kids...

...and this related blog post is from the teacher involved.

On a similarly related note, a Twitter stream coming out of a class of 6 and 7 years old in the UK. You have to jump some hoops to follow it, but it is very sweet. Typical tweets: "we have been lerning abot coins" and "we like macing things".

Nothing would attract me more to visit New York than the idea of advertisers staging a fake New Year's Eve every single night. I hope it catches on in London. Wouldn't it be absolutely awesome to have Guy Fawkes' Night *every* night, with the fireworks splashing advertising messages across the night sky?