links for 2006-10-31

The dean of Columbia University’s journalism school likens his postgraduate programme to an MBA course. Leonard Witt thinks Rabbinical schools offer a more suitable analogy for the participatory media age.

Google has invited an AdWords user to participate in a “free test” of a plan to place advertisments in newspapers.

Google has to pay its fine in Belgium because it was unable to remove all the French- and German-language news sites from its index as required by the court in the Copiepresse case.

Andrew Grant-Adamson looks at the inbound links of Times Online’s blogs and is unimpressed. Ruth Gledhill has the highest ranking Times blog on Technorati, followed by David Aaronovitch.