August ’08: Most-Popular Links from the blog-link lib: Linking is so basic, The Onion on article commenting, Google brain-teasers, more…

These are the online journalism-oriented blog posts and articles people were clicking on off my reading list from August 2008.

How Newsrooms Throw Away Value By Not Linking To Sources On The Web: “How can newsrooms, in an age of swiftly declining editorial resources, afford to throw valuable material away? And this is material that they PAID FOR by paying a journalist to research a story. Editors should be demanding that journalists provide links to source material to include with the web version of a story.”
Local Idiot To Post Comment On Internet (The Onion): “In a statement made to reporters earlier this afternoon, local idiot Brandon Mylenek, 26, announced that at approximately 2:30 a.m. tonight, he plans to post an idiotic comment beneath a video on an Internet website.”
Do we really need 15,000 journalists at the upcoming DNC / RNC?: …makes me wish I was in Beijing right now…
Google interview questions – fun brain teasers!
Special Report: Publishers Rethink Third-Party Pacts: “Over the past seven yearsâ€”as old-line media companies have spun off a proliferation of digital products and the supply of unsold online ads has grownâ€”the number of networks has also ballooned, from fewer than 50 to more than 300, per investment bank ThinkEquity Partners. While ad networks and their cousins, ad exchanges, offer an efficient way to unload inventory that would otherwise go unsold, common complaints are that networks amount to paltry ad rates, low-rent ads and, ultimately, the threat of undermining a brandâ€™s value.”

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