Kevin: Benjamin Nowack takes the concept of "dynamic semantic publishing" that the BBC is pioneering and has come up with a system that could be used by smaller publishers, including bloggers to more easily pull together a much richer collection of related content and data using linked data content and semantic APIs such as OpenCalais and Zemanta. This is the first part in a two part series. He's going to demonstrate a proof of this concept on 9000 articles from ReadWriteWeb.

Kevin: Jem Rayfield of the BBC describes a major change in how the public service broadcaster publishes content. With the extensive use of metadata, they have delivered a "far deeper and richer use of content than can be achieved through traditional CMS-driven publishing solutions.
"The site features 700-plus team, group and player pages, which are powered by a high-performance dynamic semantic publishing framework. This framework facilitates the publication of automated metadata-driven web pages that are light-touch, requiring minimal journalistic management, as they automatically aggregate and render links to relevant stories."

Kevin: Alexis Madrigal at The Atlantic gives his 5 key steps for Tumblr for media outlets. As many people have said, Tumblr is somewhere between blogging and Twitter. In fact, it combines much of the best of both platforms, allowing you to do short, status update like posts as well as longer form posts if you life. Tumblr is low-effort, interactive and viral, he says.

Kevin: A good quick guide to Google Analytics for journalists.

Kevin: The dismal state of the finances at Newsweek and possible succession plans as the Washington Post Company finalises a sale. (It will be difficult, even for a billionaire to right this ship.)

Kevin: Journalism professor and sage Jay Rosen goes through his daily information diet and gives insight on how he manages all of the information that comes his way in this information saturated world. Using a mix of Twitter (and two lists that he has created), email and aggregators such as Gabe Rivera's Techmeme, Memeorandum and Mediagazer, he chooses topics for three to five posts that he will write in any given day.

Kevin: Just a link to have handy to Google's Android app inventor, basically a integrated development environment for Android Apps.

Kevin: Samy Kamkar demonstrated a hack at the 2010 Blackhat conference that could trick your router into giving your location information. Using a malformed URL, he could gain access your router and get the MAC address. Using Firefox's location technology and information from services such as Google and Skyhook, he could then find out where you were. Pretty scary stuff and worth reviewing good security practices.

Kevin: ReadWriteWeb describes Hotlist as "a trend-tracker that connects users with upcoming events in the area and across their social networks". They have just launched an iPhone app, which makes a lot of sense because location-based services work much better on mobile when people can act on the recommendations and trends. What's interesting about Hotlist is that it doesn't require you to check-in as do services like Foursquare and Gowalla. It analyses real-time updates on Twitter and aggregates location-specific data from it. It then uses Facebook, Google and Yelp to find specific events from your network of friends. It's definitely another step in the evolution of location-based services.

Kevin: Mahendra Palsule, an editor at TechMeme, looks at various ways that sites and services are filtering information based on relevance including algorithmic filtering, filtering based on one's social graph, various forms of human filtering and influence and shared source filtering. He looks at the pros and cons of each approach and concludes that the best solution is support for multiple forms of filtering and also for flexibility to the degree of filtering. I also like his idea that you'd want to be able to act based on these recommendations.