links for 2009-03-30
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[Telegraph uses Twitterfall for live football pages | Journalism.co.uk Editors' Blog](http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2009/03/27/telegraph-uses-twitterfall-for-live-football-pages/)A fascinating way that twitter streams can be use to support traditional content.
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[Press silence on Alfie Patten DNA test result broken by Google News – currybetdotnet – 27 March, 2009](http://www.currybet.net/cbet_blog/2009/03/press_and_google.php)It's getting harder for national courts to control stories…
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[The Long Tail – Wired Blogs](http://www.longtail.com/the_long_tail/2009/03/terrific-survey-of-free-business-models-online.html)A survey of business models used online
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[WordPress News: WordPress 2.8, Summer of Code, PodPress Returning, iPhone Update](http://www.blogherald.com/2009/03/27/wordpress-news-wordpress-28-summer-of-code-podpress-returning-iphone-update/)"Matt Mullenweg says that OpenID and OAuth will be in upcoming versions of WordPress, possibly WordPress 2.8." – WIN
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[Paul Dailing: How to Become a "Death of Newspapers" Blogger](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-dailing/how-to-become-a-death-of_b_178807.html)Ah, satire: "Apparently, it's very simple. The more you self-reference, pick feuds and talk about the failure of TimesSelect, the better you're doing. If you make it sound like you're the one who figured out newspapers are dying, you win."
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[Roadtesting the Flip Mino HD](http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/2009/03/28/roadtesting-the-flip-mino-hd/#comment-432)Sarah, the lucky so-and-so, has had a Flip Mino HD to play with,
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[My speech to Gordon Brown goes viral :: Daniel Hannan](http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/daniel_hannan/blog/2009/03/25/my_speech_to_gordon_brown_goes_viral)A sea change in political coverage: "How did it happen, in the absence of any media coverage? The answer is that political reporters no longer get to decide what's news. The days when a minister gave briefings to a dozen lobby correspondents, and thereby dictated the next day's headlines, are over. Now, a thousand bloggers decide for themselves what is interesting. If enough of them are tickled then, bingo, you're news."
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[★ Obsession Times Voice](http://daringfireball.net/2009/03/obsession_times_voice)"There is an easy formula for doing it wrong: publish attention-getting bullshit and pull stunts to generate mindless traffic. The entire quote-unquote “pro blogging” industry — which exists as the sort of pimply teenage brother to the shirt-and-tie SEO industry — is predicated on the notion that blogging is a meaningful verb. It is not. The verb is writing. The format and medium is new, but the craft is ancient."
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