• Disqus - new way of integrating blogs and forums
  blog plug-in (Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad, MovableType) that enhances your blog’s comments and integrates it with a fully moderated community forum - every post you make becomes a new thread in your own forum at yourforum.disqus.com. To keep it from not
  (tags: geek, blog, forum wordpress)
• Details Revealed: Google OpenSocial To Launch Thursday
  “OpenSocial is a set of three common APIs, defined by Google with input from partners, that allow developers to access core functions and information at social networks:”
  (tags: api blog development facebook google online socialmedia web2.0)

• Strange Attractor on the NUJ new media row
  “the internet may be posing a threat to the business model that support journalism, and it’s understandable that this causes anxiety. But misrepresenting the reality of that change won’t make it go away”
  (tags: web2.0 nuj journalism)
• Open (finds, minds, conversations)…: Citizen regulators: BBC Trust reaches out through blogs in its review of bbc.co.uk
  “Someone from the Trust opened up the proceedings by asking us not to dwell on two topics of conversation which were outside the remit of the review: (1) the controversial BBC iPlayer and (2) the editorial impartiality of the BBC (especially the news). “
  (tags: BBC blog blogging socialmedia)

bounder’s soup. Soup.io seems to be tumblr with more friend aggregation facilities. All well and good - the bonus feature for those of us that have very many blogs is that you can of course be logged into your tumblr account and your soup account at the same time - leaving two quick bookmark-based microblogging platforms available.

There have been a number of times since I started my tumblr account that I wanted another for a specific purpose, now if I can only remember what they were…

Sign up, but please don’t just use it to push your blog feed, flickr pics etc through automatically.

Via

• Greenslade leaves NUJ because of new media debate
  NUJ’s approach to online journalism forces Guardian blogger Roy Greenslade to quit
  (tags: journalism web)

• Clumsy inclusion of Facebook groups in advertising
  If Facebook do want to become a platform that can be regularly used for offline marketing, they need to do a bit of work on their URL architecture.
  (tags: Facebook linking)
• og Feeds Have Garbage Subscribers Just Like Magazines
  So also do yourself another favor and read up on magazine circulation scandals (and newspapers — plenty of circ scandals there, too). Realize that the circ game has been around for decades, and what blogs are finally waking up to is as old as the hills
  (tags: blogs)

• Flickr Launches New Geotagging and Places Pages
  Flickr is launching “Places Pages,” which are dedicated pages that provide users with specific information about places.
  (tags: geotagging flickr media photography photos tags web)

• Potatoes, Onions and Barbed Wire on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  (tags: upyerbrum)
• bbc.co.uk free via The Cloud & Flash video comes to the site
  Slightly buried:”broadcaster has signed a deal with Adobe to provide Flash video for the whole of the BBC’s video services, including a streaming version of its iPlayer.”
  (tags: media geekery flash bbc)

• Bloggerheads: The Alisher Usmanov Affair: Hooray for mainstream media
  a list of 9* 8 of the 10 journalists reported to have been flown to and from Moscow by Alisher Usmanov on a Gulfstream 550 private jet and put up at the five-star Kempinski Hotel:
• Your duty to by a newspaper?
  a failure by journalists to explain to everyone in our communities why the story was important. Until our journalism really is essential to people’s lives and we make that case, newspapers will get crowded out by a dizzying array of information and, yes,
  (tags: news journalism online)

• Journalism.co.uk :: Geotagging brings personalised online news to Archant
  Mix this in with attention data and news could be truly personalised.
  (tags: news geotagging geotag)

• CleverClogs: Basics of Attention Profiling through APML
  APML for the non-geek
  (tags: apml work)