links for 2007-06-23

“Verizon Wireless announced Local TV Video, news, sport and weather from assorted local affiliates … on its V Cast mobile video service.”

Good grief: “Representatives of ABC News said yesterday that they had lost to NBC for the first interview with Paris Hilton after her release from jail next week because ABC was unwilling to make a “high six-figure deal” with Ms. Hilton’s family.”

“Get the digital magazine strategy right, and the BBC will not only save money, it will improve revenues and profits. Of course it will dramatically reduce its carbon footprint at the same time.”

“The monthly unique user metric – a scale by which newspaper websites can measure their popularity – could be discarded in favour of a daily figure by ABCe”

“the L.A. Times just hired a 2002 UCLA grad who is fluent in Spanish and Japanese to cover the Dodgers.Just seemed worth noting.”

The Worcester News is soliciting picutres from Glastonbury via mobile, e-mail or web upload. And they’ve introduced comment registration to keep away trolls.

More evidence that the term “citizen journalism” obfuscates and should be banished.

“In addition to reporting on BBC World and News 24, and the World Service, I’ll be reporting online very soon at bbcnews.com/turkishjourney, with behind-the-scenes video, exclusive photography, and live blogging of the trip.”

The whole, unedited interview between the future PM and a gaggle of BBC reporters will appear on a BBC blog after transmission of a shorter version on Friday’s Newsnight.

Germany has some of the strictest online forum liability issues in the world. As in the UK, German law is unclear about liability for commenters’ libelous statements. Der Spiegel suggests the legal position risks stifling Web 2.0 development in Germany.

The Open Source Consortium says says the BBC is locking users into a Microsoft platform with its iPlayer and will raise an anti-trust complaint with Ofcom next week, and could go as far as the European Competition Commission.

O’Reilly vs O’Brien rumbles on: “Independent News & Media said on Friday it had bought back a further 1 million of its own shares, bringing the total number of shares bought since late May to over 13.5 million.”

“Medialab, the company which publishes the Metro newspaper in Sussex, has gone bust. All 20 staff … have been made redundant after the firm went into voluntary liquidation.”

The State Journal in Michigan has published a database of state employees’ salaries, drawing ire from their union — and even one Freedom of Information activist who says there was no public interest in publishing this already-public data.

17″ monitor, Mac Mini and speakers inside an old American newspaper sales box… Applescript fetches front pages from Newseum to display the latest news…

Foreign correspondents like the Telegraph’s woman in LA are being denied iPhones for review by dastardly Apple PRs. Foreign news outlets will have to wait until the end of the year, it seems.