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Martin Belam: "Trying to stick to the terms of the court order preserving the anonymity of 'Baby P''s killers has been very testing for a lot of sites online. ... cache on Monday afternoon still contained a BBC News report from late last year that not only named those charged with the death of 'Baby P', but also the toddlers proper name, and, incredibly, their street addresses. ... A Telegraph report initially from around the same time could also be located in Google..." - martinstabe

"Naming Baby P and his mother is not about giving in to a hysterical Facebook campaign group; this is about confronting the reality of the online age." - martinstabe

"The identity of the 27-year-old mother of Baby P was last night being circulated on the internet with the names of her boyfriend and the third man convicted of causing the child's death, after online vigilantes began a campaign calling for violent retribution against them. An order issued by the judge who oversaw the trial of the woman and her boyfriend forbids details about them..." - martinstabe

"Guardian News & Media has hired Andrew Bagguley, former head of mobile strategy for News International, to help launch its mobile site." - martinstabe

"I like the look and feel of newsprint as much as anyone," [Rupert Murdoch] said. "But our real business isn't printing on dead trees. It's giving our readers great journalism and great judgement. ... Murdoch said The Wall Street Journal was planning to offer three tiers of content online - free news, a subscriber-level service, and a third "premium service" of reader-customisable "high-end financial news and analysis". ... "The newspaper, or a very close electronic cousin, will always be around," he said. "It may not be thrown on your front doorstep the way it is today." - martinstabe

Frédéric Filloux: "Death reports of paid-for models on the Internet have been greatly exaggerated ... Truth is: the fully paid-for model doesn’t work online, unless it is: a) highly specialized (financial information and services, for instance), or b) provides unarguable value added (e.g. premium dating, tax or accounting services). Now the free model is facing a new hurdle: with this recession, advertising is suffering way more than expected. Further, alarming trends preceded the recession: click-through rates were falling, and the display ad system was labeled as a no-future thing." - martinstabe

"I’ve heard it all: comments build community, comments build brand loyalty, comments build engagement, comments are the greatest thing since push technology! The bottom line, for me at least - is that they add nothing. Instead, they can be a great distraction and do very little to build traffic, build revenue or inform people." - martinstabe

"'You have to be willing to walk away from the things that have made you great,' says Scott D. Anthony, president of Innosight, which consults with companies (including newspapers and automotive businesses) on how to foster a culture of innovation. He argues that the incumbents in the newspaper industry were caught sleeping during the initial meteoric growth period of Web sites like Wikipedia because the avenue for innovation — letting crowds rather than experts aggregate and filter data — seemed so antithetical to what newspapers did well." - martinstabe

Peter Preston: "The right of the public - broadly, not narrowly, defined; Joe as well as Polly Public - to have the news they want in the way they want it. And those who seek to deny that right automatically join hands with Salisbury on the first Daily Mail so long ago. They say that only sentient, refined people like us - like me, like Max Mosley - should have newspapers that match their interests." - martinstabe

"One notable exception is People.com, which says that it receives 8.6 million unique visitors and some 733 million page views a month. Those are large and impressive numbers, but compare the site to CNN.com (35 million page views daily, 276 million on Election Day alone) or ESPN.com (67 million page views each Monday night for its NFL content alone) and you begin to get a feel for magazines' relatively meager presence in the world of old media transformed online." - martinstabe

"Guardian Media Group appears to be researching the possibility of launching a new local website to cover the Manchester area. The site, if it comes to fruition, will be branded with the Guardian name and offer a highly focused local service looking to 'connect you with your local community.'" - martinstabe

"Sources close to ITV said the broadcaster had made a confidential but strongly-worded submission to both Ofcom and the [BBC Trust] urging them to reject the director-general's proposals." - martinstabe

"Outside.in is launching a new API that allows developers to tap the company’s database of local news and information to build location-aware applications." - martinstabe

It's considered ideal to keep lines to somewhere around 60 or 70 characters (including punctuation and spaces), but anything from about 40 to 80 characters is generally reasonable. And for small amounts of text, significantly shorter lines can be OK. - martinstabe

Michael Rosenblum, entertaining as usual, speaks at the Society of Editors conference. - martinstabe

"Guardian News & Media editor-in-chief Alan Rusbridger had an embarrassing admission to make during the presentation of the NCTJ awards for excellence in journalism at the Society of Editors bash in Bristol. "I should not really be doing this," Rusbridger told the room, "because I failed my NCTJ exams." Blimey - there's hope for us all." - martinstabe

"Pete Clifton, head of editorial development for multimedia journalism at the BBC, speaks to Jemima Kiss about metadata and sharing the organisation's technology" - martinstabe

Our digital boss Conor Dignam: “Some of our older archives remain behind either subs or registration barriers, but they too will go free over time. We’re also moving all Emap Inform brands to a new CMS and redesigning all of the websites." - martinstabe

"As any fule kno, monthly uniques are increasingly meaningless (to the extent they ever were), and I much prefer Dacre’s formulation of daily users plus time spent plus number of visits. That’s a far better measure of the amount and type of attention a newspaper is getting." - martinstabe

"it’s the behind-the-scenes tweaking currently going on at FT.com that may have the biggest impact. “At the same time we’re doing some fairly fundamental changes to our CMS,” he says and they are changes that will affect the workflows of journalists and editors around the world, mainly making content uploading faster and easier. The site will soon be installing metadata semantic tagging technology from Nstein" - martinstabe

"The Financial Times tomorrow unveils one of the biggest changes to FT.com since the site launched in 1995. FT.com has been scrapped as a masthead - in favour "Financial Times" - giving the home page a similar look to that of the newspaper" - martinstabe