Telegraph tells bloggers how to do it

The Telegraph's varied crew of bloggers have been told to limit the amount of 'insider knowledge' they put into their posts.

This seems to be in response to their American editor's post about Hussein's hanging, which mystically appeared before it had even taken place.

Toby Harnden gave a broad description of what the execution was going to be like, but was caught out by various undetails. Like wearing a hood, which he didn't.

Shane Richmond sent out a message asking its writers to avoid blogging about the DailyTel. This is an odd one, as most of their bloggers' best stuff come from their posts about their job.
If they have to distance themselves from mentioning the paper, where is the openess we've been looking for as bloggers? A simple post below explaining it as a preview report would've avoided most of the panic.
You can see a heavily edited version here.

The article's now been massaged into the main sight, away from angry bloggers and their associated.

Big Bad Papers #2: The Independent

Wordblog's been keeping a very careful eye on the Independent's blog collection. Not that he's needed to. There's been just a single post since New Year, but also a meagre three categories; Photography (three posts), Environment (a massive two posts), and Comedy (four posts) .

Cameras, green and comedy. Two of those sum up the Indie's attempts at blogging, and it's got nowt to do with flash.

Putting-the-mental-into-environmental aside... they're not exactly Indie's biggest topics of interest.Where's all the Bush-bashing banter I've grown to expect from the Bizarro World's Daily Mail?

Funnily, if you check Technorati, you'll see that half of the links, all nine, complain about the rubbishness of the damn thing.