links for 2011-02-23

There has been some quite vocal criticism of my response over on the original The louse and the flea blog post about Guardian live blogs and the "death of journalism"

"But I did learn a new word from Mr Paxman – ‘Disintermediated’. Answers on a postcard, please". The answer on my postcard would be "How has your classifieds revenue done over the last few years?"

The ever thoughtful Nico Flores: "Suppose that in a few years' time Android has a 70% share of the (consumer) tablet market. If a newspaper wants its app to reach the remaining (richer, younger, hipper) segment that uses the iPad (and not Android) it's still Apple's way or the highway. A boycott by newspapers would be unlikely to sway those people away from the iPad."

"Communication is what we do, and communication has got exponentially faster over the past ten years. Better get used to it."

Lots of opportunities for debating the future of the craft

Great piece looking at how nine years of writing online news has changed journalism for one correspondent

A long long long checklist of things to consider before just throwing up a page - covering not just marketing and branding, but also tech issues like hosting

Interesting to note that the judge put great store by the site's stated privacy policy over leaving comments

It takes a surprisingly long time for a user to post tl;dr

Karen Loasby announces that she has left the RNIB, and rejoined the Guardian. She started working with me on Monday and I'm absolutely thrilled.

"A lot of social software folks seem to forget that there’s a lot more to a company than community. They treat companies as if they were consumer communities or forums that all just happen to have their paychecks signed by the same person. Why does the difference matter? Let’s look at the numbers. Online communities and forums typically attract very small audiences relative to the total target population: Less than 1% adoption is typical, and 5% adoption would be a grand-slam. That’s fine for the consumer web, but those numbers inside the enterprise aren’t exactly a ringing endorsement."