May 20, 2008
May 20th, 2008 by Paul Bradshaw
Allison White has written this wonderful roundup of last week’s news for the OJB. But now she’s got a job. Persuade her to do this again in the comments…
Google
-Announced no desire to create content and will respect copyright.
It added face-blur technology to its Street View mapping serivce to protect privacy. Also speculation from Groves Media on whether this technology is more of a threat to civil liberties than CCTV.
Microsoft
-Looking to limit the kinds of computers that can use their low-cost OS, making them poor computers even if they could be better and still be as cheap. [Read more]
May 7, 2008
May 7th, 2008 by Paul Bradshaw
Just to let you know that the News Interactivity Index now includes newspapers from Norway (thanks Kristine Lowe), France, the Netherlands and the US. You can use it to compare any two newspapers or country averages. The following countries are now covered:
- France
- Hungary
- Macedonia
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Spain
- Switzerland
- UK
- US
Apr 8, 2008
April 8th, 2008 by Paul Bradshaw
Recently my attention has been drawn to the Dutch news website www.en.nl. Wilbert Baan, interaction designer for the Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant, told me he wants to see “what we can do with news, social networks, wikis and more.
“I think you might like the experiment we are doing,” he wrote.
And bloody hell was he right. [Read more]
A week in online journalism: roundup
