- What Andy Coulson told me about secondary payments when he gave evidence to the DCMS Select Committee on 21st July 2009 — Tom Watson MP
"Mr Coulson: I got what was contractually due to me. Obviously I did not work my notice so I received what was contractually due." (andy_coulson tom_watson news_international hacking )
- Punkchip | Guardian interactive review: Flash vs. web standards
Emma finds an open-standards alternative to the Guardian's continued use of Flash in simple interactives. (guardian web_standards open_standards html5 flash )
- Are books dead, and can authors survive? | Ewan Morrison | Books | guardian.co.uk
Ewan Morrison says only an organised, collectivist union of authors and publishers can save books: "Authors must respect and demand the work of good editors and support the publishing industry, precisely by resisting the temptation to "go it alone" in the long tail. In return, publishing houses must take the risk on the long term; supporting writers over years and books, it is only then that books of the standard we have seen in the last half-century can continue to come into being." (publishing books ebooks future )
- Five Years Later, Twitter Rolls Out Image Galleries | TechCrunch
"Personally, it’s hard for me to believe that Twitter is just rolling out this feature in August 2011, but that being said, I’m glad it’s here. It’ll be nice to have the same photo viewing option above “similar to you” that we have on Facebook above our wall feeds." (twitter launch photographs )
- The darkness at the heart of Anonymous | Technology | guardian.co.uk
"Since LulzSec grabbed the media spotlight, the broader Anonymous collective has no clear idea of what it wants" (anonymous lulzsec hacking )
- My favourite album: Life’s a Riot With Spy Vs Spy by Billy Bragg | Music | guardian.co.uk
(music billy_bragg )
- Why Amazon Can’t Make A Kindle In the USA – Forbes
Great post (first in a series) on how cheap overseas manufacturing hurts a country, even though it seems logical. (hardware manufacturing economics management business amazon )
- Facebook Just Bowed Out of the Check-In War With Foursquare | Betabeat — News, gossip and intel from Silicon Alley 2.0.
"While some folks might attribute the rumbling feeling that hit New York this afternoon to a 5.9 earthquake in Virginia, Betabeat now knows better. It was the tectonic reverberations of defeat, as Facebook quietly phased out the Places feature of its mobile app which everyone was screaming for months would kill Foursquare." (foursquare facebook location )
- NCE: training the lowest common denominator? | andydickinson.net
Andy Dickinson on the silly NCE "we don't need to change much" report. (report survey journalism training )
- Headlines and Deadlines: What message are the NCE editors sending out to their newsrooms?
Great post from Alison Gow on the ridiculous outcome from the National Council for the Training of Journalists, that "web skills" aren't that important, and what's needed is evolution, not revolution. (training journalism report survey )
- Voices Of East Anglia: Inside the Oxford Street HMV Store in the Sixties
"We've had a look at the outside of HMV store in the 1970s in our post Streets of London 1976-1978, now it's time to go inside in the 1960s. Scroll through this Flickr collection of the interior of the Oxford Street store in Sixties London." (hmv music london photographs history )
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