links for 2007-02-07

“A new qualification is being launched by the National Council for the Training of Journalists to help reporters operate in a multi-media environment.”

Om Malik: “Already, we see companies like Affinity Circles4 and Social Platform5 turning the “social network” into a commodity, by offering turnkey solutions.”

Ryan Sholin: “If I were in a position to hire a reporter, I’d be looking for a solid writer with web skills … one of the trinity: multimedia, interactivity, data.”

Polymer Vision has announced the Readius, “an electronic reader with a rollable screen that folds to the size of a mobile phone.”

Poynter Institute’s Al Tompkins says “localising” national trend stories is a waste of time for local papers.

A Flickr user places Monday and Tuesday screenshots of Times Online side-by-side to show the CSS repairs that had to be made after launch.