links for 2008-05-08

"Martin's series on these early developments is a must read for interested parties" is being overly-kind but thank you.

"It was taken before England played Scotland in Glasgow on March 4 1876". Local newspaper archives triumph again.

"If the mayor is expecting tube and bus staff to confiscate people's drinks then they are effectively being forced into a policing role for which they are not trained. We need to get any ban right and not compromise the safety of staff and passengers".

"Looks like HP’s Logoworks division want to rank for business cards & logos. Can we expect a ban or penalty to find it’s way over to HP & Logoworks? Something tells me Google will continue to beat down the little guy while brand names get away with it

"The Glue Pages combine classic search results on the left hand column with more visual information related to your query in the middle and right section of the page. The results contain images, videos, articles and more".

Times republishes age-old SEO myth. "This has got to be great linkbait for the BBC and the all of the National newspapers, I can just see all the Sunday Times readers going out and linking them now. Who knows, maybe they made the mistake on purpose".

Blog-stat pr0n over and above the call of duty

"Did I say I didn’t like this essay, by the way?" - Adrian rips into Clay Shirky's "won't life be wonderful when we all stop drinking gin and watching Desperate Housewives"...

"It's inconceivable that we would start a new project now without the search team being involved at every single stage". Quick! Look everyone! These people actually get it!

"My request to find out how much the BBC has made in advertising revenue since it started putting ads on the international version of its news site, BBC.com, has been rejected".

"Fascist organizations are promising violence against visitors who come to Belgrade for the Eurovision song contest. Gay men are a target in particular".

"In what may go down as the least articulate sentence ever uttered by a Pulitzer Prize winner, Buzz Bissinger began his contribution to a televised debate on the future of American sportswriting last week by saying: 'This just pisses the shit out of me'".

How can music be responsible for this, I mean, she must have visited the internet too...hang on...I see if you read the article the internet DOES get fingered as well. Amazing how there were no suicides before 80s goth and the interweb came along eh?

"One Leeds fan, musing over who he wanted to win from Manchester United's meeting with Chelsea in Russia, could not decide which side he disliked least and eventually plumped for 'the Moscow Police'". I know exactly how he feels...

"Mozilla, the maker of the Firefox browser, is redoubling its efforts to check user created add-ons for viruses and Trojans after it discovered that a language pack on its official add-on page had been infected for months with rogue code". Ouch.