Delicious LiveJournal Links for 3-10-2009

[andrewducker]

• How crime has lost out to showbiz
  The changing face of newspaper reporting.
  (tags: UK culture journalism crime newspapers)
• Fandom and RaceFail
  Best post I've seen on the possible (hopeful) outcome of the whole thing.
  (tags: fandom activism education race)
• Points on a curve.
  When do we give people second chances? How long do we wait to check whether they're still the same person? Is it always worth gambling on that change, or should we just give up and move on?
  (tags: personality change forgiveness)
• Why do teenagers sleep late?
  Now researchers believe there could be biological reasons why those aged 10 to 20 need to sleep later and longer than the rest of us. About nine hours, to be exact. Tests by Professor Russell Foster, chairman of circadian neuroscience at Brasenose College, Oxford, suggest that students perform better in the afternoon, because their body clock is programmed about two hours later, possibly for hormonal reasons. (I'm clearly a teenager)
  (tags: sleep teenagers)

Comments

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

I looked at that crime/showbiz article, and was struck by the "most-read" stories in the sidebar:

* Madeleine 'treated as commodity'
* Tongue bite girlfriend faces jail
* Commuter with hands up was shot
* Death gyrocopter 'followed hunt'
* Stephen Fry: The internet and I
* Building firm in administration
* Mother jailed for crushing baby
* Continuity IRA shot dead officer
* India seeks Rupee status symbol
* Banking stocks lead markets surge

OK, not a huge sample, but it doesn't support the article's premise very well.

[andrewducker]

I wonder if the BBC news is an outlier.

It's certainly somewhere that focusses on news over celebrity - it'd be hard to find that many celebrity stories on BBC News, I'd imagine.

[cairmen.livejournal.com]

Post #2 is interesting. Thanks.