links for 2007-07-09

• Readership Institute: How news spreads in the digital age
  "Attention is aggregated differently on the Internet than in traditional media -- blogs and other Web sites with niche audiences are critical to driving traffic to Internet content."
  (tags: news newmedia journalism education internet blogs tagging)
• The Road Home - New York Times
  "President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have used demagoguery and fear to quell Americans’ demands for an end to this war."
  (tags: iraq u.s.a. war politics propaganda media)
• News and jobs for journalists :: How to: create a pre-filtered mash-up of RSS feeds
  Excellent how-to for using Yahoo Pipes.
  (tags: rss pipes tools yahoo! howto feeds mashup education)
• HK press freedom weaker since handover: report | International | Reuters
  "58 percent of journalists polled said they believed press freedom had deteriorated since the territory's return to Chinese rule on July 1, 1997."
  (tags: hongkong freespeech press journalism china)
• Hobby leads to career for tech blogger - New Zealand's source for technology news on Stuff.co.nz
  "Mr MacManus started a blog on web technology as a hobby back in 2003. He's now turned that into a full-time job that earns him a comfortable living."
  (tags: blogs blogging newmedia business)
• Global Voices Online » China: Cruise missile carted into Beijing
  "a couple was seen driving a horse-drawn buggy with what appears to be a homemade cruise missile sitting in the back through downtown Beijing,.."
  (tags: china globalvoices funny)
• 《财经》杂志网站: Google.cn Shifts to Win from Survival Mode
  "Google’s optimistic chief of operations in China says the search giant has matured past the survival stage and now has a new goal: Win. "
  (tags: google china search business)