links for 2007-08-19

Guardian review of Bourne Ultimatum leads on … the Guardian: “How gratifying to see this paper finally being shown in an exciting and glamorous light – in this third movie in the Bourne franchise.”

Tech Digest counts the Graun as a product placement in Bourne Ultimatum: “Scenes are shot in the offices, the Guardian editor is shown, and Bourne is even seen reading a copy of the newspaper and spies his own name in it.”

“[T]here’s no point in learning these skills unless as a print designer you’ve made a prior shift in your understanding of how design works in digital media.”

Jeff Jarvis: “I say Google is the new newsstand. It is a way to be found and read. It is a reporting tool. It is a presentation tool (with maps and such). It is now a means of continuing the journalistic process by getting response and with it more viewpo

“After a quick scan of some of the sites on the web with advice on headlines, I didn’t see some of my favorite tips, so I’m compiling several of them here”

Radar magazine profiles John Young, the “71-year-old architect, spy buff, and proprietor of the Cryptome web site, decribed by William Arkin as “the Google of national security.”

Ignore the non sequitur in the headline, this is actually a pretty interesting article: the Press Complaints Commission and Society of Editors say newspaper sites adhering to the PCC code offers a sort of kitemark for quality content online.

“The disappearance of Madeleine McCann is part of a wave of overblown television news stories that would sit better as a blockbuster novel, prize-winning author Lionel Shriver has claimed.”

“The Mirror alone contributed around £70m of the group’s pre-tax profits of £185m last year, according to sources, but circulation continues to fall – declining by over 6 per cent year-on-year in July, and Bailey seems to have few ideas about how best t

“The FT can paint itself as a niche brand, but the reality is that it competes head-to-head with the WSJ across Europe and Asia. Until now, it has won that battle because the WSJ has lacked the wit and resource to challenge it. Murdoch will change that, f

Reverse telephone directory for USA, France, Italy, Belgium and Argentina.

David Berlind: “Like blogging, I see Twitter more as a disruptive Web publishing tool with ramifications to existing media business processes than I do as a way to find out when and where my friends are going to lunch and how much indigestion it gave them

“[John] Lumpkin joins 18 other Stuff employees who lost their jobs this week when Alpha Media decided to close the magazine and concentrate on the Maxim and Blender magazines and brands.”

The Chicago Tribune is reverse publishing user-submitted content from the triblocal.com web sites develop two weekly print newspapers for Chicago suburbs.

Scott Karp: “the Web is not a static medium, and therefore journalism on the Web is not static — it is a dynamic process that never ends. That’s why the LA Times is wrong to argue that the new comment feature of Google News is not journalism.”

The Times is offended by the notion that the people who contribute comments to Google News will be making them “unedited.” … This is exactly the kind of idiotic hubris that causes the public to hate journalists and, by extension, the journalism they

Dan Gillmor: In a story about how institutions failed to heed signs of the impeding US mortgage crisis, the New York Times “fails to add one of the most culpable institutions of all: the press.”

“Emily Miller, 25, who claimed to work for a charity that helps Indian children, applied for a £40,000-a-year job as assistant to Conservative Party chairman Caroline Spelman.”

“This was nothing more than a fishing expedition in the hope of turning up something embarrassing. It’s a newspaper equivalent of Watergate, an underhand and unacceptable piece of trickery without any journalistic merit.”