• McSweeney's Internet Tendency: After a Thorough Battery of Tests We Can Now Recommend "The Newspaper" As the Best e-Reader On the Market.
  What concerned us most about The Newspaper was its lack of Wi-Fi. Information on the system was locked, while on other e-readers it was open, ubiquitous and current. Eventually, however, we found this advantage to be overstated, even misleading. Engineers using The Newspaper typically did so 30 to 60 minutes a day. Afterward, they went outside, formed relationships, and took in what life had to offer.
• US Hacks/Hackers network forms London branch
  Hacks/Hackers, a network of journalists and coders founded in the US, is coming to the UK with the first meeting of its London branch.

A number of people have mentioned that there was no Ruby in the Pub last month.

Well, now I can finally reveal why!

With the help of my colleague Julian Burgess, Aron Pilhoffer from The New York Times and Burt Herman, founder of Hacks/Hackers and CEO of Storify, Ruby in the Pub is relaunching this month as the London Chapter of Hacks/Hackers.

There are a number of really good reasons for the change:

1. It widens our monthly meetups to involve anyone who is interested in digital journalism.

2. We become part of a national and international network of meetups and activities run under the Hacks/Hackers name (please also check out their survival glossary for digital journalists, it is rather good).

The first Hacks/Hackers meetup will be at the Shooting Star Pub, Spitalfields next week (August 18). More details can be found on Meetup.com. If you are interested in where journalism meets technology, please come along!

UPDATE: If you are a London-based journalist we’d be really grateful if you could print off our poster and promote the launch of Hacks/Hackers in your newsroom. Thank you!

• How the New York Times creates its graphics
  "Graphics director Steve Duenes and graphics editor Archie Tse talk about the pressures of turning round illustrations to explain breaking news stories such as 9/11, their relations with the newsroom, and whether they have a fixed house style."
  (tags: newspapers infographics)
• Marketing budgets set to rise in UK – Warc News – Warc
  "Search engine optimisation was named as the most important media channel by 45% of the sample, with social networks on 42% and advocacy/word of mouth on 37%."
  (tags: business marketing)

• News Corp's Next Digital News Venture – CNBC
  Sources close to the company tell me that the company is considering creating a new purely digital news play that would be designed for the app world and would be available through subscription on devices like the iPad.
  (tags: paidcontent newscorp)