links for 2007-07-16

Benjamin J. Marrison: “some news works better online: breaking news, interactive graphics, videos and sound-slides. The Web lets us compete with TV and radio for immediacy. Other news is best served on paper: Investigative projects and detailed narratives

MoS editor Peter Wright: “Prince has done this because he makes most of his money these days as a performing artist.”

“is the biggest news story in the UK really ‘media bloke shows ineptly edited footage to other media blokes and blokettes, and sometimes you can’t believe everything you see in adverts on the idiot lantern’?”

Inksniffer John Duncan: “like many journalists, I’ve been totally conned by the myth of the print-conquering newspaper website.”

Scott Rosenberg: “The hunt for “the first blog” or “the day blogging started” will be in vain. Like many significant phenomena in our world, blogging does not have a single point of origin.”