Weblinks for Sunday October 4 2009

Shameless self-interest:

Say No to Blythe Park Power | vvsm.co.uk http://vvsm.co.uk/ - help stop proposed power station in greenfield site - which happens to be 200 metres from where I live - and sign the Number 10 epetition.

Journalism links and the like

5 reasons why UK newspapers still don’t get multimedia « Adam Westbrook - http://adamwestbrook.wordpress.com/
Mainstream media and the Fifth Estate - http://sarahhartley.wordpress.com/
Citizen journalism will remain part of changing news models, says report - http://www.journalism.co.uk/
Clay Shirky: Let a thousand flowers bloom to replace newspapers; don’t build a paywall around a public good » Nieman Journalism Lab - http://www.niemanlab.org/
Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS :: Adrian Short - http://adrianshort.co.uk/
The Internet's next frontier? News for your neighborhood - Ars Technica - http://arstechnica.com/

Should You Listen to Seth Godin and Claim Your Brand in Public? - http://blog.360i.com/
A Perfect Storm. Where are the Skillful Sailors? - http://simsblog.typepad.com/
Engagement, not unique visitors should be No. 1 goal - http://beatblogging.org/

News

Dancing in race row - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ - well, not exactly news, but lots of people - including my girlfriend - may be interested in this gubbins.
Cameron promises 'new direction' - http://news.bbc.co.uk/ - Does that mean the Conservatives are actually decide on some policies? New Labour may have lost their way, but the Tories will need to create

Quirky stuff

Lost cat travels 300 miles on coach - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/
Listen to this: teachers at school are banned from smoking, children aren't. The Sun dubs it 'School's cig joke' - http://www.thesun.co.uk/

Geeky stuff

30 Resources to Find the Data You Need | FlowingData - http://flowingdata.com/

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