links for 2006-12-23

Heather Brooke and the Guardian bring their Freedom of Information Act case against the BBC to the Information Tribunal.

Tomos Livingstone of the Western Mail reports on a Press Gazette FOIA request to the BBC, which gets six copies of his paper — “a whopping three times as many copies as the Glasgow Herald and six times as many Yorkshire Posts, Birmingham Posts and Irish

Ethan Zuckerman speaks ill of the recently-departed Saparmurat Niyazov. A fitting “eulogy” for the deceased dictator Turkmenbashi.

The New York Times has run a redacted version of a comment piece by a former CIA offcial. The CIA had cleared the copy but the White House insisted that some portions remain classified.

If you build it, they won’t necessarily come.

In the United States broadband penetration has reached 75% of online

Steve Rubel asks “where does citizen media end and mainstream media begin” — and suggests that blogs whose authors make most of their money from them should be considered MSM.