links for 2007-09-04

Kristine Lowe explains how the distributed conversations of the blogosphere work – and how journalists collectively can use them to piece together a story.

Shane Richmond: “From a newsprint point of view wire copy makes perfect sense. It allows us to cover stories that we don’t have resources to cover ourselves. … Online, however, wire copy is redundant.”

Martin Rosenbaum on the long, long story of a Freedom of Information request which a government department fought for 906 days before finally releasing the information a few days before an Information Tribunal hearing.

Dan Kennedy: “Does Lou Ureneck really think the little guys whose ads have popped up on his Web site about fishing in Greece would otherwise be taking out ads in newspapers?”