links for 2006-12-03

Heather Hopkins was Yahoo! UK and Ireland News: is up +43% in market share of UK visits in the past 6 months.

At a recent Newspaper Society event, Tony Blair slurped soup without a spoon — and promised to consult widely on proposed changes to the Freedom of Information Act, writes the BBC’s Martin Rosenbaum.

Dana Hall asks whether mainstream news organisations’ blogs are doomed because of “the tension between the blogosphere’s anything-goes ethos and the standards of traditional journalism.”

“The Internet Archive project has won an exemption from US copyright law, overcoming an obstacle which threatened the entire work of the not-for-profit group.”

Suffolk Police have obtained mobile phone records of EADT reporter Mark Bulstrode after he approached the police with information that was not public knowledge.

The Economist looks at news aggregation.

A key finding of the Bivings Report “is that magazines are far less aggressive than news sites in implementing Web 2.0 content technologies and more resistant to exposing content outside of registration access.”

Ian Reeves, former editor of Press Gazette, argued that developments such as online video-sharing, blogs and podcasting mean that the public is becoming the press, speaking at a PPA-sponsored House of Commons debate last Friday.