These are links to select web pages recently bookmarked by members of my delicious.com network — and some opportunities inspired by those pages:

  • The Fog of Breaking News [Slate] (from amonck) - Jack Shafer compiled this list of “misinformation, quarreling facts, and bunk published by the world press about the Mumbai rampage.” After the list, he links to a “hand-built RSS feed” of Slate’s “Press Box correction.” Opportunity: Create a system to consistently let alert readers to errors.
  • Guess what? Automated news doesn’t quite work. (from yeltsinfina) – Techmeme has hired a human to improve its “mix of headlines.” Founder Gabe Rivera says the ”human+algorithm combo can curate news far more effectively tha[n] the individual human or algorithmic parts.” Opportunity: Integrate algorithmic tools into your curation processes.
  • ‘Curation,’ and journalists as curators [Teaching Online Journalism] (from cophotog) – Mindy McAdams uses a museum analogy to explain seven “aspects of journalistic curation.” Opportunity: Improve your everyday organization and presentation of links.
  • Results of the BBC News Story Links Trial[Journalism Labs] (from jxmitchell) – The BBC is revisiting its 1997 decision to place related links to the side of an article’s text. They share findings from an experiment with Apture to provide inline links that show the linked-to content in a popover. Opportunity: Use web analytics tool to evaluate the effectiveness of your linking practices.
  • 25 examples of best practice on BBC blogs [Common User] (from paulb) – A linked list of “[p]osts explaining how BBC projects, programmes and services work.”