links for 2007-05-18

Oliver Luft takes his video camera around the new studios at CNET Networks UK and also looks at VNU’s studios.

The debate over the impact of the internet is polarised [between] apostles of new media who seem gleeful whenever they can find evidence to support the imminent death of print [and] those like O’Reilly who believe that “there has been no paradigm shif

El Pais and El Mundo show how to do online election coverage: “while British papers complain about low turn-outs and voter apathy, the Spanish papers are taking their democracy seriously and doing all they can to inform and involve their readers…”

Scott Karp: “Google is already the gatekeeper for a huge percentage of online activity — and a significant percentage of traffic to media company content. That percentage is now likely to increase.”

“The Press Complaints Commission has issued new guidelines for undercover reporting”