Links for today: BBC Newsnight, Twitter and a few others

BBC Newsnight, Twitter and journalism

I couldn't possibly comment on Newsnight's interview with Twitter CEO, Evan Williams, but here's some links for those of you who are interested...

• 'Read it and Weep': Guardian transcript of the interview
  
• Shane Richmond: 'Newsnight is not a form of journalism'
• Twitter responses to the interview: loved it, embarrassing, do Newsnight understand?

Blogging in Afghanistan

• There's a lot of news from Afghanistan at the moment. Most of it far less positive than this blog post about an online journalism and blogging workshop in Helmand. Twenty-eight attendees had to share two computers but they were determined to learn new ways to make their voices heard.
  

Money makes the media world go round?

• Rupert Murdoch to charge for news content online. The proprietor of the Sun noted that "quality of journalism is not cheap".
  
• Some have faith in the link economy.
  
• Others are not at all convinced by the marketplace of the 'free'.