- Sun apologises for spelling Jacqui Janes’ name wrong… | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog
"A fantastic spot from Michael Acton Smith after the Sun’s criticism of PM Gordon Brown this week for misspelling the name of killed Guardsman Jamie Janes in a letter to his mother, which included the paper publishing a transcript of a phonecall between Brown and Jacqui Janes." (sun gordon_brown apology afghanistan )
- Columnist Not Only Quits, Thinks Web Site Shouldn’t Charge – NYTimes.com
"Mr. Friedman, who had written a column for Newsday since 1996, quit last week over the paper’s decision to require some readers to pay for access to its Web site. [...] He explained his departure in a note to Jim Romenesko’s media blog. In an interview, Mr. Friedman said, “My column has been popular around the country, but now it was really going to be impossible for people outside Long Island to read it.” [...] Mr. Friedman, who is 80, said he would continue to write about older people for the site timegoesby.net, but he called his decision an end to more than 50 years in newspapers." (journalism business_models employment newsday )
- Telegraph CIO on the rocky road to going Google – Retail & Leisure – Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com
"TMG began its transition to Google Apps in July 2008 and completed the migration in July this year. [... CIO Paul] Cheesbrough said that the key to a successful transition is compulsory training for staff on using the new system, warning that initially TMG swapped workers over to using the Google system with no formal training, a policy Cheesbrough said "backfired on us in a big fashion". [...] TMG has also recently struck a new deal with another cloud computing firm, Salesforce.com, to carry out payment processing for its online sales operation on Coda software on Salesforce's Force.com platform." (gmail telegraph cloud_computing salesforce.com )
- Who knows who – Channel 4
"Who Knows Who is Channel 4’s new website which shows who is connected to who in public life. You can help us build a network to show where power really lies in the UK." (channel4 politics crowdsourcing connections )
- 100 years of great press photographs | Art and design | guardian.co.uk
"The picture was taken in the Altai territory of Russia, right in the border regions of Kazakhstan. It shows the second stage of a Soyuz rocket in the crash zone where they come down to earth." A wonderful picture that looks like something out of a fairytale. Part of a gallery of "100 years of great press photographs". (photograph photojournalism photography )
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