links for 2007-03-19

The Big Issue Scotland will relaunch its website on Thursday, with more interactive elements — but with all of its editorial content removed from the site

“The Sun and the News Of The World will get 50% of their non-cover price income from digital sources within five years, according to their managing director Mike Anderson.”

Scott Karp: “I think Twitter is a well-executed application, which, like all technologies, is only good or bad in how it is used. What strikes me about Twitter is that it appears to be accentuating the natural exhibitionist and voyeuristic tendencies of av

Tips on ways to make Twitter more useful. Some assembly required.

“This week, Viacom sued Google, claiming intellectual property infringement by YouTube. Will the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act protect “Goo-Tube?” Is the future of user-generated web media at stake? NYU’s Siva Vaidhyanathan explains.”

Kimberley Porteous, SMH’s online community editor, tells Mindy McAdams how they do it.

“A new database released at HeraldTribune.com in conjunction with a special series lets readers investigate their teachers and schools in detail never before so easily available to the public.”