links for 2007-06-27

Here’s a bizarre piece fof research from eMarketer, which seems to suggest that 93% of UGC users also create content. That’s just a bit out of whack with the 0.0001 per cent rule or whatever it is these days.

Alan Powell, editor of The Star in Sheffield, and many of his staff “have worked a 24-hour shift as it became apparent that rising water levels in the River Don were building the city’s biggest story since Hillsborough.”

Nick Turner on his first 24 hours on Facebook: “my embryonic list of friends is a strange mix of friends, family and journalism contacts so I’m not sure what tone I should be taking on my profile.”

“Google has committed to carbon neutrality by the end of 2007, which is a typically audacious Google target. However it has not disclosed its carbon footprint to the Carbon Disclosure Trust.”

“Apple’s upcoming iPhone is shaping up as this year’s must-have gadget, but several perceived shortcomings are pushing some potential buyers to wait for an updated version.”

Aussie rules, college baseball, cricket, rugby, football — lots of major sports are trying to contol journalists’ access to protect the exclusive rights they sell to broadcasters. This issue is not going to go away soon.

Read this: Ian Douglas demolishes Janet Street-Porter’s “misleading, uncomprehending and dangerous” recent column blaming the internet for suicides in its place.

“A whopping 96% of online tweens and teens connect to a social network at least once a week, according to a study and white paper being released today from Alloy Media & Marketing”

Google Maps and its competitors have “become a sprawling, networked atlas — a ‘geoweb’ that’s expanding so quickly its outer edges are impossible to pin down. … Today, the number of mashed-up Google Maps exceeds 50,000.”

Seamus McCauley smacks down Janet Street-Porter’s latest column: “It ignores all of the evidence we have of teenage suicide epidemics that owe nothing at all to the Internet.” The evidence actually points at big media reporting high-profile suicides!

The Innovation newspaper consulting group has produced 5m video about the Telegraph Media Group’s integrated newsroom.

Ben Hammersley: “[W]hile there’s more news available to you, you’re much less likely to know how it was made. … I think it’s easier, and more productive in the end, to do what my maths teacher was always forlornly begging me to do, and show my working.”

“The network MATTERS — a lot. It matters for voice and it matters for the ultra-hyped mobile web. Verizon’s high speed network IS faster — it’s not full broadband speed, of course, but it blows away the slower networks I’ve used.”