links for 2007-01-07

UK electronic paper display technology company Plastic Logic has received $100 million in venture funding.

Pramit Singh on the resignation of Backfence’s Susan DeFife: “The money is not coming in from the local news sites as much as expected. I guess you need at least 25% of the local population to be using the site to be able to generate profitable ad revenue

Howard Owens: “I’ve run across far too many recent J-school grads that are as traditional in their thinking as any crusty old city editor you care to name.”

Ignore the swipe at Michael Arrington and read the collected advice from tech reporters for public relations people on how to deal with journalists more effectively.

Southampton Solent University is set to launch an undergraduate (BA Hons) degree in Online Journalism, commencing September 2007

Neil McIntosh republishes the item he wrote recently for Press Gazette giving his predictions for 2007. Ahem: “(they’re back in print, but have scaled down the web side, alas)”.

Would Martin Luther really have agreed with Joel Stein’s claim that his theses should have stood alone without commentary? The historical record suggests otherwise. “The Reformation was, you know, sort of a wiki”

Marketing Week has a good summary of the changes and innovations in the UK regional newspaper market in the past year.

“Broadcasting regulator Ofcom received only 25 complaints following the broadcast of images taken from Iraqi television of Saddam Hussein’s execution on 30 December.”

A 20-year-old blogger has held on to his job with a chocolate shop chain after showing remorse for branding the town of Barrow a “shithole”.

Leading German news site Spiegel Online claims double digit profit margins for 2006.

Zoe Margolis was outed as “Girl with a One-Track Mind” Abby Lee by the Sunday Times in 2006. She has published one of the e-mails she recieved from Nicholas Hellen before the story ran.

Is Zoe Margolis “plotting revenge” with a Google Bomb of the Sunday Times’ Nicholas Hellen?

Tim Luckhurst on the Saddam Hussein video: “From the moment the explicit footage appeared on Anwarweb.net, traditional editorial processes were redundant. No editor decided who could witness this tawdry spectacle.”

The ICO has ordered Defra to release internal advice to fisheries minister Ben Bradshaw under the Freedom of Information Act. This appears to be another section 35 case being over turned on “public interest” grounds.