From the Online

… a place for my media and journalism links, occasional comments/ponderings and for bringing together my bits and bobs around the web. Find me: @jtownend on Twitter, jt.townend on Delicious, Muskehound on Flickr, and blogging / reporting at Journalism.co.uk. Or check out what I’m doing via my Lifestream.

Today
	4:31pm	Posted an item Afghanistan: are we embedding the truth?
	3:14pm	Posted 10 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) @BrightonArgusJo yup, in print too @johnmair100 excellent - will listen in full. Did anyone suggest challenging their legal basis? @brightonargusjo i see the billboards get a mention in G2 today @jonwesselaas I shall send Barry the link to your piece - I don't know if he's on Twitter. Is the super injunction a myth perpetuated by the media? Barry Turner on its legal basis for @journalismnews: http://is.gd/aI0QA @johnmair100 a norwegian media lawyer @jonwesselaas has some thoughts on this too. we need some teeth, he says! @alexispetridis you've probably seen but here's the dedicated brighton billboard flickr grp: http://www.flickr.com/groups/argusheadlines/ @arusbridger @davidleigh3 ideas on challenging the legal basis of super injunctions by law lecturer Barry Turner: http://is.gd/aHNad @johnmair100 he's not disputing that they've been used to good effect - but says they have no basis in law and should be exposed as such for a website that is in hibernation, @wikileaks has some great new docs today http://wikileaks.org/
	12:21pm	Posted an item Independent.co.uk: Solicitor general to look into phone hacking concerns
	11:51am	Bookmarked a link on Delicious links. Dan Slee: 'An idiot’s guide to what the data revolution means for local government'
Yesterday
	11:46am	Bookmarked a link on Delicious links. Observer: UK 'ignoring' systemic evidence of torture among asylum seekers
March 13th
	11:46pm	Posted 3 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) trying to get the @stop_child_det twitter a bit more active. if you want to help end child detention pls follow! sign via http://ecdn.org @emilyapple thank you! If you've got any ideas for spreading word of petition, let me know! @tellingtales hiya, thanks for the follow
March 12th
	5:53pm	Posted 9 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) @marc_vallee honoured, thank you! Independent apologises to @girlonetrack for 'seriously defamatory' headline RT @journalismnews http://tinyurl.com/ygjuax7 not a joke despite the date: rt @journalismnews Freelance 'strike' planned for 1 April http://is.gd/akDyG #journalism friday watching RT @newslite TV reporter throws tantrum over botched line - Odd News \| newslite.tv http://ow.ly/1qeAqE RT @malcolmcoles: Exposed: gaping holes in Facebook's procedure for reporting content http://bit.ly/d4aDGv @awollenberg sorry? all I meant is that it's not an april fool, actually happening overheard: teenage schoolgirl on practicalities of a mile of roly polys for Sport Relief. It's going to be very muddy on the field... regional maths by @robertandrews RT @paidContentUK UK's Top Regional Papers Have Lost Half A Billion In Sales http://cnt.to/kbu complaint over use of 'retard' rejected by ofcom RT @TelegraphNews ... ‘human right’ to broadcast offensive material http://ow.ly/1q8ux6
	5:51pm	Posted an item Independent apologises for ’seriously defamatory’ headline
	1:46pm	Bookmarked 5 links on Delicious links. (Show Details) Lord Ramsbotham in the Independent: 'Issue is no less than whether we are a civilised country' Scorecard ‘09: UK’s Top Regional Papers Have Lost Half A Billion In Sales \| paidContent:UK Data.gov.uk: There are four rules to linked data Independent: Asylum-seekers abused by security guards, says report Reporters Sans Frontières: Web 2.0 versus Control 2.0
	12:40pm	Posted an item #followjourn: Miriam Shaviv/foreign editor
	10:40am	Posted an item Posthumous byline
	9:52am	Posted an item Blogs.vocalo.org: 119 words and phrases banned in WGN-AM radio newsroom
	9:36am	Posted an item New financial stocks site for Wikia; hopes to attract whistleblowers
	8:49am	Posted an item #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – creating well-designed news
	12:00am	Posted an item New micropayments system launched for bloggers
March 11th
	6:50pm	Posted 5 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) @zbeauvais @paulbradshaw @iand a beautiful book about beautiful data. Really want my own copy!! CNBC India anchor's budget day rant over rival channel leads to law suit: watch the vid. bizarre. http://is.gd/ae9oZ 81 members of #bfong Brighton Future of News group. Hadn't realised it was growing so fast! next meetup 22nd March: http://is.gd/adY0U @alexwalters sure, will take a look later. I think mine was Islington Now back in the day but we definitely didn't call it hyperlocal..! @shaspi no fear, @journalismnews is here with speech in full: http://is.gd/ackVX. think city's vid will be up soon #cityjustice
	2:52pm	Posted an item Reuters Handbook of Journalism: Don’t scoop the wire
	1:30pm	Posted an item BBC News: Hamas releases British journalist in Gaza
	12:12pm	Posted an item In Mr Justice Eady’s court super injunctions and libel tourism are of little concern
	11:33am	Posted an item #followjourn: Matthew Wall/freelance
	11:03am	Posted an item Mr Justice Eady speech in full
	9:05am	Posted an item #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – making multimedia packages
	12:00am	Posted an item Mr Justice Eady: 'The law of privacy is a new creature requiring a terminology and language of its own'
	12:00am	Posted an item Azerbaijani bloggers lose appeal against jail sentence for 'donkey' press conference
March 10th
	9:43pm	Posted 17 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) RT @OpenlyLocal: 200th #hyperlocal site added to OpenlyLocal hyperlocal directory: http://openlylocal.com/hyperlocal_sites #opendata @currybet sounds like the beginnings of gategate; scandal in which renowned info architect disgusted his followers with gate hatred Eady says only way to track secret injunctions would be to list the number, which he claims would be v few #cityjustice @BTCare it was just very slow loading pages - despite seemingly full signal. too late to help now... @jamesrbuk will seek you out! Why does political blogging have a nearly all male cast? @markpack picks up on my #IWD letter pages post: http://is.gd/a6Reg Follow @newsbrooke for amusing eady backchannel critique #cityjustice latest in #endchilddetentionnow campaign: Take one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up ... http://bit.ly/9G19lP #ecdn @Coneee via the backchannel, maybe, if one can heckle by Twitter.. One-man privacy law / super injunctions / science cases: what's left to ask eady... #cityjustice Fun seeing @coneee @mepadraigreidy @jamesrbuk @newsmatters @newsbrooke #cityjustice. So.. if Eady retires, it won't be to Florida... Latest on @girlonetrack for @journalismnews rt @charlesarthur http://is.gd/a7EP6 lt;-- girl w/a fast track lawyer Why don't more use Reynolds defence asks Eady. Cites rusbridger at select committee. timely procedure #cityjustice who's planning to go to #cityjustice with eady tonight? looking forward to it, but also sad to miss @alexhorne wordwatching in brighton @Sarah_Booker one of many old school rules that cld be bent a bit, for better journalism, I think. how showing your copy first might not be such a journalistic crime after all by @alisongow: http://is.gd/a7TZv http://onion.com/a7BbDy via @TheOnion - How Will The End Of Print Journalism Affect Old Loons Who Hoard Newspapers?
	12:58pm	Posted an item Blogger to pursue legal action over Independent on Sunday headline
	12:34pm	Posted an item Could Iceland’s journalism haven create a ‘ripple effect’?
	11:49am	Posted an item #followjourn: Toni Jones/associate fashion editor
	10:14am	Posted an item FT.com: Digital chiefs challenge House of Lords digital economy bill amendment
	9:35am	Bookmarked a link on Delicious links. OpenDemocracy: Take one traumatised child, classify as 'adult', arrest, lock up, and bundle onto plane, bound for danger
	9:31am	Posted an item Investigative news organisation shares its reporting recipe
	9:15am	Posted an item TechCrunch: Newspapers have never made much money from news, says Google’s chief economist
	9:10am	Posted an item #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – online infographic resources
	9:03am	Posted an item MediaGuardian: Clifford drops phone hacking case following £1m deal
	12:00am	Posted an item New transparency 'seal' initiative for online journalists
	12:00am	Posted an item New transparency 'seal' initiative for journalists
March 9th
	5:36pm	Posted 4 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) when you splash out £5.99 on BT Openzone it would be nice for it to blimmin well work RT@mysociety: Running FixMyStreet is like owning rabbits - turn your back and there are more of them. Welcome S. Korea!http://fixmystreet.kr craig brown's Andrew Rawnsley diary in the Eye v funny. 'nothing short of a typhoon in the typhoo' pg 23. RT @freedebate: As it’s Big Libel Week we want you to tell everyone you know on facebook to sign the petition @ www.libelreform.org
	10:08am	Posted an item #followjourn: Jane Merrick/political editor
	10:02am	Posted an item Video links for City University London new media election debate
	8:34am	Posted an item #Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – inspiration for data journalism
	12:00am	Posted an item Only 27 per cent of media workforce is female in Middle East and Arab world
March 8th
	5:44pm	Posted 10 tweets on Twitter. (Show Details) @Women_on_IWD posted journ themed comment here (scroll down): http://is.gd/9YkGS #IWD @girlonetrack we'll be running a number of #IWD themed pieces today I want to flag up your experiences this weekend. best way to talk? @awollenberg I wasn't really surprised, having seen these type of supplements before. wondered what others' reaction was. RT @alexwalters: Bell argues that live reporting is far better than the traditional 3000 wds of shorthand condensed into a single article reading gt;gt; RT @alleyinsider How Facebook Was Founded http://bit.ly/c8tuiF @thickeytom maybe! but the Obs says it receives far fewer letters from women (a third) so it's not just editorial sifting @gregwallis of course, but I'm curious why they do - and in completely open social media environments like google buzz @Emmabarnett I'm interested in noise levels http://is.gd/9Ygtb that men are more vocal in media and politics, incl. via online media So, guardian offering editorial direction 'input' to sponsors of Society supplement.. Indy's Stephen Glover is shocked: http://is.gd/9WRWx collecting links for #IWD International Women's Day. Thoughts/posts/comments? Please send 'em over. cheers all. J
	5:32pm	Posted an item #IWD: Why do men dominate newspaper letter pages?
	3:20pm	Posted an item The truth about funding investigative journalism 2.0
	12:23pm	Posted an item #IWD: Gaby Hinsliff – ‘Too many women waiting to be invited to blog, where men just pile in’
	11:43am	Bookmarked a link on Delicious links. http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Top25UKPoliticalBloggers/~3/YnAyk_zmT2g/gaby-hinsliff-guest-editor-women-only-rotten-idea
	10:44am	Posted an item CCJ: Journalists love polls but are they useful?
	10:33am	Posted an item Did NY Times’ blog culture lead to incident of plagiarism?
	10:09am	Posted an item #followjourn: Christopher Phin/deputy editor
	9:36am	Posted an item Thomson Foundation: Making of Oscar-nominated Burma VJ documentary