links for 2007-04-01

“If you think restaurant critics from mainstream newspapers, television and magazines are tough on the food industry, you haven’t spent much time in cyberspace.”

Jay Small: “We tend to treat the internet as an information and distribution medium. Most consumers treat it as a communication medium.” Exactly.

Martin Newland: “One can do a lot from the multi-media ‘hub’ that generates content at the Telegraph’s central location in Victoria, London, but discerning the real preoccupations of readers in the localities is not one of them.”

“We are delighted that ministers have at least delayed implementing changes the aim of which was to make it easier for public authorities to refuse requests for information.”

The Kathy Sierra story is “a case study in hearsay, innuendo, rumor, defamation, libel, jumping to conclusions and every other negative consequence of unrestrained publishing that the principles of journalism are intended to prevent.”

Microsoft PR firm sends a dossier on a wired journalist to the journalist himself. Jeremy Wagstaff: “if you’re a journalist it’s an interesting glimpse on just how much effort PR puts into spin”.