links for 2007-03-28

I won’t summarise Ben Fenton’s post, because that would ruin the joke…

“[Wednesday] night at POLIS a group of online hacks and entrepreneurs will gather to discuss if it is possible to have a viable online journalism business that is truly independent of the Old Media companies.”

Mindy McAdams advises journalism schools o “teach entrepreneurship, embed online tools in the curriculum, get working journalists to teach, and remember the basics”

Roy Greenslade: “Gawker, the entertaining US-based media blogger, is trying to find New York’s drunkest journalists. … Surely our lot can out-drink those New York sissies? And our anecdotes will surely be more amusing?”

Carl Howe responds to the A-listers doom-mongering about journalism: “[p]eople are confusing the business of publishing newspapers with the discipline and art of journalism.”

Tim Luckhurst is, according to Roy Greenslade, “an ostrich’s apologist”. Ouch. Great phrase, though.

Media lawyer Niri Shan: “If the High Court overturns the Information Tribunal’s ruling it will be a blow to its credibility – and would have a significant bearing on future Tribunal cases.”

What’s the right way forward: print-online integration, or seperate newsrooms?

David Phillips: “I was interested in the results of the action against Google believing that it would have a deleterious effect on the pages viewed. I was wrong if Alexa is to be believed. Reach is mostly up (in some cases a lot) and readership is down bu

“In the three weeks it’s been live, Scribed has received about two dozen “take down notices” related to copyrighted material that’s been uploaded.”