Bank holiday round-up

[Keyword: onlinejournalism]. Four consecutive days away from the computer and my RSS Reader is overflowing with news items. Here's my round-up of the best:

• "BBC News Interactive will lose 12 journalists as part of the recent job cuts, according to news site editor Pete Clifton". [from Journalism.co.uk]
• "Jay Rosen explains in his latest PressThink article, the local paper in Greensboro, N.C., is turning its online self into a community square". [from We The Media]
• A useful list of sources for Google News UK;
• Channel 4 has launched FactCheck "to monitor press releases, speeches, interviews and broadcasts made by politicians in all major parties highlighting any exaggeration, inaccuracy or significant omissions in the figures or facts they use". [from Journalism.co.uk]
• Intelliseek launch BlogPulse 2.0 "with the announcement that they are now tracking over 9.3 million blogs ,which puts them ahead of both Technorati and Pubsub". [from The Blog Herald]
• Digital Edge Award winners announced [from Journalism.co.uk]
• A wikipedia index: http://www.wikiwax.com/[from indianonlinejournalism@yahoogroups.com]