links for 2007-09-03

Computer scientists are developing a very impressive new new image resizing method that has obvious implications for resizing pics on news web sites using an algorithm that removes pixels from the image. Cue important ethics debate among photojournalists.

Scott Karp: “on the web … news wires no longer make as much sense, for the inverse reason that they once made sense — why should every newspaper carry the same version of the same story which can be accessed anywhere … ?”

Mark Potts: “If newspaper Web sites are going to successfully bail out their print counterparts, they’ve got to act like … eb sites. Unfortunately, a recent report indicates that most newspaper Web sites are still stuck firmly in the last century … “

Yet again, an important reminder: Google News is a much smaller wire-service aggregating operation than Yahoo News. And MSN. And AOL.

“BBC Radio Five Live has … submitted FoI requests to all 43 police forces in England and Wales, asking how many cases had been recorded last year in which the suspect was under 10.”

Stephen Glover devotes much of his Indy column to the puzzling and no doubt important question of why some national newspaper columnists’ Wikipedia entries are longer than others. And you thought Silly Season was coming to an end.

Christopher Allbritton: “Jay [Rosen]’s list of 14 sites proves [Michael] Skube’s central idea: there are very, very few blogs out there doing what might be called original reporting.”