links for 2007-02-27

Amy Gahran: “The best letters blogs allow comments, and news staff engage readers in conversation there. They also publish all or most letters received — not just what ran in print.”

Piers Morgan: “I owned the Press Gazette, I wasn’t the editor. I spoke to him regularly and was instrumental in the whole re-launch, but once we were up and running I thought it was better to let the editorial team get on with it and not interfere too muc

Robin Hamman’s typology of blogs: (1) closed blogs (2) information conduits and (3) participants in the conversation. This one is probably a 2.5 or something.

“Pro golfer Fuzzy Zoeller is suing to track down the author who posted what he considers a defamatory paragraph about him on the Internet reference site Wikipedia.”

Steve Yelvington says newspaper sites should concentrate resources on developing interactivity. But some online journalists resist a move away from news — which means there are now “new media” status-quo defenders …

The New Republic … “which has seen its circulation fall from 101,000 to 60,000 in the last seven years,” will relaunch on March 19 — and go fortnightly.

What it says on the tin…