links for 2011-07-09

I think the distracting effect of having Twitter on the screen behind you at events isn't worth the "social buzz" you are hoping to build outside the building.

"The News of the World's rivals are surely rubbing their hands at the prospect of luring some of the tabloid's 2.66m readers, who between them bring in more than £2m in circulation revenue each week. But not this weekend: News International is actually planning a significant increase in the paper's print run for tomorrow's last ever edition, in anticipation of readers piling in to buy this "souvenir" edition."

Fantastic piece in the Shropshire Star, which also illustrates how journalists use Facebook to try and get in touch with and gain access to young people

From the comments: "Perhaps a few of them wanted to inform the public by working at a newspaper. That's like saying they meant to be nurses, and somehow wound up selling heroin on a playground. Heartwarming, but what's your point?"

Erm, I think most of the stuff people were linking to over the bulk of the last two years had URLs starting guardian.co.uk

"It is wrong of Mr Miliband to call for the scrapping of the PCC. His remarks are long on rhetoric and short on substance. He appears to be ignorant of the important and valued work of the PCC."

Great Newsnight clip from last night

"A newspaper that had thrilled, informed, amused and titillated millions of readers every Sunday for more than a century was dead. And we had been there at the moment it slipped away."