links for 2008-06-12

"An Albanian immigrant who has been in Greece for 9 years spoke of being imprisoned in the country as he is obliged to get a residence permit every 2 years...the process can take up to 2 years every time, during which he may not leave the country."

Slow news day on the Education desk at the Guardian yesterday perhaps ;-)

Official blog from the organisers of this year's slightly expanded Tour of Britain race.

"The Moscow Times reports that Turkmenistan has begun to allow private citizens to connect to the internet. The national internet provider, Turkmentelekom, said on Thursday that it has been connecting up to 20 homes a day since the announcement."

"You know when you look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super great 3D animation that will take a minute to load...". 'Skip intro' link now listed in SERPS by Google.

"Somehow Carr seems to presume that there's simply nothing valuable occurring in our minds when we engage with the extraordinary new medium of the web. Because we're starting to think in different ways, it must be bad. Right?"

"It's probably better to go without a description tag than to use duplicate tags throughout the site". Oh boy, did I ever get tired of saying that at the BBC.

"We found it very interesting that a new application would specifically aim at Google's data mining as a weakness. That kind of tactic is likely to become increasingly frequent."