links for 2006-11-15

The Guardian’s Charles Arthur likes Adrian Holovaty’s notion of the programmer-journalist. But then he tried it for himself…

Kevin Geary of BBC Interactive told the World Audio Festival in the Netherlands that more people see Newsnight videos on YouTube than on the BBC web site. And the Beeb doesn’t call it “citizen journalism” — but we knew that bit already.

Reuters has invested $7m in Pluck, the company behind BlogBurst syndication network.

The excellent Dutch new media blog De Nieuwe Reporter has a audio interview (conducted via Skype) with BBC Interactivity editor Vicky Taylor. Topics include the user-generated content hub which she runs and why the BBC doesn’t use the term “citizen journa

Rupert Murdoch: “In our major markets, the United States, Australia, Great Britain, advertising is pretty flat, some places it’s down a fraction and other places it’s up a fraction, but nowhere would you say is the consumer marketing economy buoyant.”

Amanda Congdon, the former host of the popular video blog Rocketboom, has been hired by ABC News. She will video blog on technology and appear on the network’s broadband channel, ABC News Now.