links for 2008-06-02

"General election voting has been suspended in five areas of FYROM amid unrest in which at least one person has been killed and more hurt. The poll was called after Greece vetoed the former Yugoslav republic's attempt to join Nato because of its name."

"And, indeed, the new revivalist logo isn't as lewd as the original one: this time, the mermaid's nipples have been covered by hair". Thank the Lord that someone at Starbucks was thinking of the children, eh?

"We've been hinting at this for awhile: Starting next week, we'll be rolling out AdSense for feeds to a small group of publishers, in anticipation of a full launch to all FeedBurner and AdSense publishers". RSS gets Google Ads

"Message to Mr. Johnson: forget banning alcohol on the tube. Is there any chance we just ban mindless, tanked-up, hateful, violent p|$$heads?".

There is more to life than Google Alerts, which have been getting increasingly erratic for me. They seem to be doing an 'OR' search for my name, and there are a *lot* of Martins being mentioned out there on teh interwebz.

"I had a 1 week period where all I did was check Twitter instead of checking my RSS feeds. I can't rememeber a single thing I learned from Twitter nor did I bookmark anything for reference" is one of several reasons given.

"What can you learn from this? Soft pr0n makes people click links". Well, that was kind of inevitable. I think some of these examples are more about *who* tweeted rather than *what* they tweeted.

Very nifty reverse-engineer use of the Blinkx contextual search tool. Find pages relevant to your new article, but instead of linking there, see if you can get a new link *from* there. Smart.

"AP commissioned an ethnographic study on the news consumption habits of young digital consumers. The main finding was that subjects were overloaded with facts & updates and were having trouble moving into the background & resolution of news stories".

"Prince covers Radiohead at a live show. Fans record the performance and put it on Youtube. Prince demands that the videos be taken down. Thom Yorke requests they be unblocked. So who's right? Who cares. The notion of 'copyright' is officially useless."