Monday squibs

From the ‘net; blogged from my sick bed (thank the lord for laptops and wireless):

• A pay wall falls, and the Web is watching. A Globe & Mail article on what the end of TimesSelect, and murmurings about a free Wall Street Journal means. It’s obvious from the article that the G&M isn’t about to follow the NYT in opening up its archives to free access.
• Make it quick and easy, please. A kick in the slats for the give-them-quality crowd: a poll that claims people are looking for convenience, comprehensiveness, or timeliness in news, not quality. As with all studies, it’s open to questioning, but interesting nonetheless. Adrian Monck has the graphics.
• The High Value Of Lower Thirds. All that stuff at the bottom of the TV screen is apparently valuable, but I’m only pointing to this as a hook for bringing down curses on one Canadian TV channel (don’t remember which one) which was running lower-third ads for its shows over the subtitles of the movie it was showing.
• Yahoo! for Yahoo? Alan Mutter has laid out some figures that show the newspaper business’s best friend may turn out to be Yahoo.
• Work in Progress 3: Three Types of Journalist Blogs. A short post, defining types of journalism blogs. Worth the read and worth considering if you’re an editor trying to get a handle on how to make blogs work. Via Martin Stabe.
• Online, all the time. Seymour Hersh really, really likes the idea of online journalism.
• Journalism ethics in the 21st century. A newish blog from Sunny Freeman and Catherine Rolfsen, graduate students at the University of B.C. School of Journalism. I’ve subscribed. Found via The Canadian Journalism Project.