links for 2009-04-20

"I’ve been pretending in my head that I’m a newspaper exec. When I do that I keep beating myself around the face. Why? Because the newspaper industry keeps giving the geeks free meals." – Robert Scoble has a devastating list. via @jay_rosen on Twitter

"We are not going to put up pay walls around existing content but we are going to go forward and try to look at opportunities for premium content," Kennedy explained. "It's about creating something new:" – The AP explains its new initiatives. via @ptaillandier on Twitter

Mark Luckie spells out why planning is a good thing.

Meranda Watling explains a common annoyance about reading on the web. I prefer some kind of application where the page doesn't reload every time you go to the next section. It's especially annoying with photo galleries.

"As people increasingly seek out news, and as the concept of single source or single authority gets increasingly weak, the need to hook us with clever ledes or writing tricks goes away, and the value of quick, compact, well-presented basic information increases, at least when it comes to a lot of what we’ve traditionally defined as news."

Via Will Sullivan, an interesting twitter client for the cube-farmers.

It's here.

Eric Maierson gives some worthwhile tips. #10 is a really crucial step that I have a hard time getting students to do.

A relatively easy-to-use and free (for the beginners version) 3-D modeling tool.

"Any good blogger, competing journalist or alert press critic can spot and publicize false balance and the lame acceptance of fact-free spin. Do users really want to be left helpless in sorting out who's faking it more? The he said, she said form says they do, but I say decline has set in."

- By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine. The blue to red change from 2007-2009 is frightening.