links for 2006-12-01

Sandeep Junnarkar interviews Newsvine founder Calvin Tang.

Westminster City Council plans to extend wireless availability across central London.

“NewsTrust, a project in online readers rating news articles based on journalistic quality, has just gone public.”

“By definition, a journalist’s standing (whether economic, political or anything else) depends on the willingness of readers (and other journalists) to support his work, not on members of the profession whom he covers.”

An interview with Adrian Holovaty.

“An analyst at Citigroup believes print the Internet-induced angina of newspaper publishers will last until 2011.”

Kevin Maney asks tech entrepreneurs what they would do if they owned a newspaper. The responses were not as radical as he hoped.

Local news is not commoditized like the rest, which makes Topix.net’s geolocation function so important.

Members of the US military are losing their security clearances due to being deeply in debt, according to data optained under the US Freedom of Information Act.

Another petition to sign on the Number 10 web site: Revise UK libel law to be more in line with the United States’.

Jeremy Paxman and Peter Barron appear to have have slightly different views on new media, particularly the user-generated content project “Oh my Newsnight”.

THe HuffPo has hired Melinda Henneberger as political editors, and Arianna Huffington says there are plans for more staff to produce original journalism for the blog.

Lloyd Shepherd: “Anne Lapping brushed aside the issues of business models for online news by pointing out that this had always been a problem … Do something else as well, is the answer.”

How the Guardian uses tags on its new travel site.