links for 2008-03-13

• Too Much To Declare - Passport in Pimlico
  "Planned or not the whole process involved systematic cretinisation of everyone whose application was processed. Everything seemed designed to make us stupid". I'm really not looking forward to this.
  (tags: passport)
• Ofcom scraps 'public service publisher' plans | Media | guardian.co.uk
  "Ed Richards has confirmed Ofcom is to abandon plans for a 'public service publisher'. Richards said that the idea had 'served its purpose' in shifting the debate on the future of public service broadcasting by emphasising digital media".
  (tags: ofcom newmedia psp guardian)
• Link Building Via Blog Comments : Is It Spamming Or Not? - Search Engine Journal
  "Because of how blog comment spam has arisen, search engines are most likely to develop ways to filter good comments from spammy ones. So an important question arises: 'If I build links via blog commenting - do I look like a spammer?'".
  (tags: blogging comments spam searchenginejournal)
• The Victorian Internet - Woolly Days
  "Newspapers weren’t always so positive about the virtues of the telegraph. In the early days, the press saw it as an ominous development that might put them out of business". Plus ca change, etc etc
  (tags: 1800s "electric telegraph" newspapers)

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