links for 2008-01-24

• Right to barrack Lord Coe - Oliver Holt - Mirror.co.uk
  "I wish Coe would abandon the pretence that the Olympics are going to have a meaningful legacy. We know the £500m stadium is going to be converted into a stadium for those giants of football, Leyton Orient". Thus freeing up Brisbane Road for housing, no?
  (tags: londonolympics mirror leytonorient football stadium)
• Blogs should not replace newspaper columns, says former Times editor :: Journalism.co.uk
  "I can't take it terribly seriously who answers you back - it's the sort of people you would get answering back in a bar chat". As opposed to your 'proper' readers, I presume, who would never engage in that tawdry bar chat sort-of-thing ;-)
  (tags: journalism blogging simonjenkins journalismcouk)
• Pithy, precise and wrong - Public Strategy
  "The relationship it assumes with its users is somewhere between condescending and insulting. That's not in the 1 sentence spec - but just as importantly, it's not obvious it's missing if you start with a purely functional approach to service design".
  (tags: congestioncharge design servicedesign)
• London + Wheelchair = Not too bad really « The Shed
  "Overall it was a pretty awesome day but it needed a lot of planning. In my naivety I kind of figured everywhere would be set up for disabled access and it wouldn't even be an issue. Everything is a little bit more trouble, not much, but enough".
  (tags: london accessibility disability)
• Is the Soundtrack Market In Trouble? A Special Report - Soundtrack Geek
  "No film soundtrack released since 2004 passed a million sales. Meanwhile, the game industry is the king of soundtracks at the moment. The popular Electronic Arts game title Rock Band has sold an astounding 2.5 million tracks digitally".
  (tags: music soundtrack games downloads)
• FTC Complaint Filed Over AskEraser: "Unfair & Deceptive" - SearchEngineLand
  "Ask.com also shares information with third-party service providers. In spite of AskEraser being enabled, the user's search queries are kept on the servers of third-party companies. Those third parties include Google".
  (tags: ask google search searchengineland privacy)
• Prevent Boss From Snooping On Your Google Search Queries - Digital Inspiration
  "There are chances that someone is secretly spying on your Google search tracks for various reasons". Paranoid much? Suggests you use some Google mirrors, that generate URLs that any decent Regex looking for search queries would identify anyway.
  (tags: google search privacy paranoia)

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