links for 2008-03-11

"There's a newsroom; there's a trusted news brand; it's mobile; it's up to date; it's about current affairs. Unless you're defining a newspaper as a bunch of ink on a dead tree the BBC is running a newspaper. Or technically lots of newspapers".

"WRONG> I can give my CD/DVD to a friend you f**king freaks. What the f**k are people supposed to give for gifts then? Idiots". itchy01ca doesn't like the Big Finish FAQ much ;-)

I was laughing along at the comments until someone dissed Fearne Cotton...

"Sir Gus O'Donnell is to set out new guidance to civil servants to cover blogging and online social networks following the demise of the 'Civil Serf' blogger". At least, unlike Greece, it isn't proposed legislation outlawing anonymous blogs.

"Google is now more of a human assisted algorythm than ever before. But what do these thousands of human reviewers look for in a spam site? What can you get away with?". QuadsZilla apparently has a leaked Google doc in the members only section.

"The Mediterranean is at much higher risk than thought of a major quake of the kind that struck to trigger a tsunami that wiped out Crete and devastated coastal regions as far away as Egypt, Dubrovnic and Sicily". That'll learn me to live by the sea...