links for 2011-01-10

The Ministry of Justice has announced that it will extend the scope of the act to include more organisations that carry out public functions, some of which have charitable status, such as the higher education admissions body Ucas.

But the plans do not include extending the legislation to cover all charities.

Perhaps this is the year that life outside the capital intrudes into the lives of the 'talent' that jets into Heathrow and Gatwick.
The market they (or rather those that control the 'star' contracts) seeks is national and pan European. Getting to see more of UK Plc as more than London will widen some very narrow horizens and add depth to some often very shallow 'actors'. Wider distribution will follow, and remember the only point of a business is to create a customer.
London is just the label on the can of UK Plc. Reaching out from Salford opens new doors to product (films,books, court cases) and connects to the engine of the UK, not just the Penthouse.
Of course reality bites and at first some facilties will be missing,such as massive traffic jams, pollution, miserable Londoners and of course Max Clifford.
But these will follow as surely as a trail of pollution folows a private jet.

But selling ads shouldn't comprise your integrity – it's selling your editorial which does that. If potential customers think that they're getting both for the price of one – well, you'll just have to set them straight, won't you? (Check out our series on selling ads ethically here and here and here for help.)

Flavors.me‘s tag-line is “make a homepage in minutes” – and that’s what it is about. It is a platform for you to create a one-page destination for your digital world, detailing who you are, and bringing all your different feeds into one place.

NewsU International will feature self-directed modules relevant for journalists, journalism students, bloggers and anyone else interested in developing media skills. The first available courses include Persian programmes on effective multimedia storytelling and understanding the language of images.

The 2011 Census is fast approaching us on Sunday 27th March and hyperlocal blogs are in a unique position to inform local residents about the Census and what it means to them.

1. What are the values you live by?
2. What are your greatest talents or abilities?
3. What interests you the most?
4. When colleagues think of you, what are you known for now?
5. What do you want to be known for that you are not known for now?
6. Imagine that ten years from now a colleague is describing you to another colleague. What will s/he say?

I think David Weinberger‘s Small Pieces Loosely Joined is one of the best ways to understand how people interact online because it relates so well to how we interact offline.

That’s the US picture which, I would guess, is credible to project broadly speaking into other geographies such as the UK.

ohn O’Shaughnessy, the Manchester-based head of production technology (North) at ITV, is leaving his role to take on the mantle of head of technology at MediaCityUK.

Cheap can be beautiful.
I've rambled on quite a bit about print, obviously, so let me say one last obvious thing, and then one cautiously hopeful thing, about media in general: Fat margins are, of course, history.

Tilt is the FT‘s seventh professional-niche spin-off and Murphy aims to sell access to its journalism to professionals on a “high-end” enterprise basis – typical for such services, prices aren’t disclosed, but are in the “thousands”, not “hundreds”, of dollars.