Almighty Link

These are select links tagged by members of my delicious.com network on Nov. 23:

• Watching the Times struggle (and what you can learn) (from yeltsinfina) – “Ten years ago, the [New York Times] … had a shot at inventing the future, but compromised their way to it instead of leading. Here are some simple ways they could think big instead of merely failing to defend the status quo.”
• Building the data desk: lessons from the L.A. Times (from reinventing) – “Before you can build a data team, you need one or more techie-journalists dedicated full-time to executing online the great ideas they’ll dream up.”
• ManagingCommunities.com (from ksablan) – The “community for cummunity administrators” has a blog written by Patrick O’Keefe, “writer, web developer and community administrator who has been … managing online communities since 2000.”
• Regional newspaper publishers must improve websites – or the BBC will be back (from slouch) – “[W]ith the contraction of ITV’s local news commitment and this inhibition of BBC’s regional website expansion, the current publishers have the territory almost to themselves.”
• Filling the gap in health journalism (from amonck) – “The Kaiser Family Foundation is starting a news service to produce in-depth coverage of the policy and politics of health care, both for an independent Web site and in collaborations with mainstream news organizations.”
• Should Newspaper Companies Get Out Of The Newspaper Business?  (from slouch) - “Once you cross the line to selling other companies’ media because it’s more valuable than your own, then you face a fundamental question about why you’re going to the expense of producing your own.”
• A bridge over the journalistic gulf in the Emirates (from kristilo) – “Under the former Telegraph editor Martin Newland, the National has given Abu Dhabi a taste of how the British quality press works – but as it breaks new ground, it must tread carefully with the powers-that-be.”
• UPDATE: Microsoft Says No To ACAP Despite Words Of Support  (from slouch) - “So Microsoft won’t be implementing [publisher-friendly news indexing technology] ACAP after all, at least in the foreseeable future.”