links for 2008-05-02

"Starts talking about websites. Apparently content should be relevant. And fresh. And apparently you can slap ads on it. F%&$ me. I’d never have thought of that. Websites, eh?". Great off-the-cuff write-up of what sounds like a mostly good day.

"At the moment, something happens and newspaper sites shine a searing spotlight onto it. The problem is, to see a whole topic, we need some light shining on it all the time. A random series of superbright spotlights gives us a distorted picture".

Eagle-eyed BBC message board member spots that the Daily Mail doesn't use the kindest of file names when publishing their eagle-eye view picture of a travellers camp - gypoDM3004_468x706.jpg

Great big of digging in the background shows that the only people supporting Gambert's bid to "trademark" SEO are in fact Jason himself under assumed names...includes Scooby Doo references for good measure

"In the near future I plan to deliver premium content by RSS - much of it will still be free of charge - if at that time Google Reader doesn't support various access controls, I will restrict access and block Google Reader". Very interesting take on RSS.

"Could it be that we are in the midst of a search advertising bubble driven by overconfidence in the abilities of overrated services and an abundance of small, undiscriminating advertisers eager for any bump in traffic?".

"Police in Japan have warned internet service providers to delete from their sites instructions on how to turn household cleaning products into a deadly gas that is thought to be behind dozens of suicides".

"The magazine announced it is putting its entire archive online as well as entering the download market. Editors said that, by early September, every word ever printed in the magazine will be available free in its searchable online archive". Wow.

The Kevin Marsh take on the Adrian Monck book.