links for 2009-08-03

It’s one example of the connection with the community local journalism is supposed to have and I think it would be fantastically easy to implement it on any local news site. Myreporter.com is built on WordPress – easy to hack together – and questionland runs on a third party Q&A platform called yousaidit. But there are other sources. Ryan Sholin points out that the source code for his nascent reporting back channel service ReportingOn (a knight news challnge winner) is available as open source.

The BBC's revised plans contain a number of measures including:

* An annual "state of the nation/region" journalism initiative in each nation and region.
* A fund for programming in the English regions.
* More landmark factual programming in the devolved nations of Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
* Geographically targeted sports coverage.
* Improvements to nations and regional linear TV and radio news, including coverage of local government.
* A more geographically representative newsgathering operation.
* Distinctive factual programming in the devolved nations.
* Regional opt-outs on national radio services in Wales and Scotland.

One of the projects looked at who was looking at pages on the Guardian site to make them aware of when people were looking at pages that they had written. It might also one day alert them to when a person had left a comment on their articles.