A bit of interesting database-style magic from the Media Standards Trust (and brought to my attention by Meg) - a site called Journa-list that tracks the output of Britain's newspaper hacks.
Type in a name and it will dish out some stats on how many stories they've written, how many words, links to those stories - and a tag cloud showing what subjects they write about the most.
Take the output of a certain keyboard basher, for example.
No surprise that I've written mostly about Google, phones, Apple, the BBC and so forth.
Immediate competitive instincts, with a shuffle through the listings to see who the most productive journalists in British national news are: Emma Theldwell (297 articles since May!) and Ben Bland (275) both of the Telegraph, followed a little way back by the Guardian's Graeme Wearden (210 articles). Interestingly, they're all online business reporters.
Fishing through the rest is pretty interesting. The data is by no means complete - for starters, it doesn't seem to pick up a large selection of the Guardian's features sections such as G2, but it does seem to pick up most website output (not blogs, though, unless they're integrated into the main website).
It means almost nothing of course, but it's got potential. And, let's face it, it's a complete time sink for Fleet Street's vainest.
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