links for 2008-06-30

"It's a year to the day that they posted: 'Our blog team is taking a break to think about the best ways to communicate with you. We're not leaving you hanging, though'. For me, this is pretty definitive - Google doesn't care about librarians.

My personal velocity is about the same as a duck, apparently. I feel faster...

"Since he's still capable of writing and performing such rich, moving pop music, it's patronising to think that a set of lightweight songs, sung badly, is good enough". A shocking emperor's new clothes accusation in the Telegraph?