Some time ago I suggested iTunes for journalism and compared newspapers to albums – having to buy two crap tracks along with the six you really want. Why not build an RSS playlist of journalists you rate rather than having to pay for all the stuff you don’t?

This tweet from Mark W. Smith suggests taking the next step and giving journalists their own platform – at least for longer form pieces. I know all the arguments about the need to fund good investigative or foreign journalism but this might in the long term prove an interesting alternative.

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Interesting watching the fuss about Sky News and now The BBC putting limits on how their journalists use Twitter to break stories. I have been talking about the growing tension between individual journalists’ brands and those of their employers for a long time. In fact three years ago I toyed with the idea of iTunes for journalism and used the above graphic on the story!

As Matthew Ingram, writing on Giga Om, says:

if a single tweet from someone on your staff gives away enough of the value of your story that you have to forbid it, you have a lot bigger problems than just breaking news on Twitter.

Increasingly, institutions hold smart people back.

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Zero integration with iTunes – I want to share or favourite tracks as I am listening to them.

The pre-selected favourite tracks don’t represent my tastes.

Hard to see what the favourites are as they use album art rather than track titles.

When I choose to add favourites manually I can’t browse my library and have to abort the profile update to look at my lists!

The recommended artists bear even less relationship to my tastes.

No way to import contacts.

Talk about connecting to Facebook but no way to do it.

No way to create or share lists

No integration with Twitter

Photo upload still not working!

[I originally called this post Ten things I don't like about iTunes 10 but realised it was Ping I was ranting about. That then made me question the version number change for iTunes as bugger all else has changed except Ping!]

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