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About Oliver Luft

Oliver Luft was news editor of Journalism.co.uk from 2006-8.

Seesmic video comments now available on Movable Type

Video platform Seesmic is partnering with Six Apart, developer of blogging platform Movable Type to provide its users and their readers with the ability to integrate video comments alongside traditional text-based comments through a new plug-in.

Movable Type customers and their readers will also become part of Seesmic’s lively community.

The introduction of the Movable Type plug-in follows Seesmic’s integration with other blogging services.

Judge could order US newspaper to hand over identities of anonymous comment posters

A US judge is set to rule on whether to make New York state newspaper Journal News hand over the identity of users who left comments that may have libelled an ex-congressman.

According to lawyers working on the case, Westchester County Judge Rory Bellantoni will issue an order to LoHud.com for release of information to identify “SAVE10543,” “hadenough,” and “aoxomoxoa” for comments they made about former Rep. Richard Ottinger and his wife, June Ottinger.

The couple claimed they have been defamed by comments on the site that falsely accuse them of filing a fraudulent documents and bribing officials over the construction of their home.

They subpoenaed the newspaper to release the information, arguing they can’t bring a defamation suit against the three without their identities.

Gannett reorders its community publishing division

US newspaper group Gannett is to reorganise its community publishing division.

As part of the reorganisation its current five regional groups will become four groups: East, South, Interstate and West.

“This reorganisation both refines our structure and puts our top people in key jobs with expanded responsibilities around the country,” said Robert Dickey, president of the US Community Publishing division.

“This will allow us to realign our strategic objectives and focus on top line growth as we go forward.

“In particular, I would like to welcome Laura Hollingsworth to the rank of group president. In a relatively brief time at the helm of the Des Moines paper, she has demonstrated great skill, leadership and savvy. She’s a fine example of the great up and coming management talent we have at Gannett.

“However, we will be saying good-bye to two outstanding executives who have been instrumental in the accomplishments of our division for several years. Barbara Henry and Denise Ivey will be sorely missed, but we wish them well as they move into the next phase of their lives,” Dickey said.

“We deeply appreciate all they have done for Gannett.”

The rejig also involves several executive appointments and two retirements.

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Interactive maps of tornado damage

Now this is a good interactive map.

DesMoiesRegister has put together a map charting the damage done by the tornado that wiped out the southern third of Parkersburg, Iowa, earlier this year.

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Filters include a colour-coded display of damage to buildings, locations of fatalities, aerial photo markers, the location of stories and videos captured on the ground and a filter that lets you overlay satellite photographs taken days after the event.

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Sky News new beta site

Sky News has launched a beta version of its new website, to run in parallel with its existing news site.

It has adopted a top story carousel for the homepage that displays the latest breaking news in video and pictures.

It has also added a story tracker in the right column, which lets you follow a story as it develops, and in the left column a See Your News personalisation feature.

“What you are visiting is very much work in progress. We are testing and trialling new features and a very different design,” Steve Bennedik, editor of Sky News Networked Media, wrote on his blog. Play free online slots no download on this website.

“At the same time we are still offering our existing site. When we are ready, we will switch off the old site and this will be our public face.”

Guardian: James Murdoch calls daily/Sunday integrations ‘cost-cutting exercises’

James Murdoch has spoken out against integrating daily and Sunday newspapers into seven-day operations, dismissing the process as “cost-cutting exercises”.

He told staff at its UK newspaper division News International that the introduction of integrated seven-day operations in Britain had “diminished daily and Sunday rivals”.

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