links for 2008-07-13

• Teenager finds bat asleep in bra | BBC NEWS | UK | England | Norfolk
  A story surely only published to make sure it reaches the front page of Digg and sits in the BBC's 'Most read' list for weeks and weeks and weeks...no pic though :-(
  (tags: bbc funny bat linkbait)
• Browse Del.icio.us Bookmarks Visually With FavThumbs - TechCrunch
  Is it just me who can see that this would be useful for some sort of pr0n related social bookmarking site, but is deeply uninterested in looking at rotating thumbnails of the kind of text-heavy web pages I bookmark? OK, just me then...
  (tags: bookmarking visualization delicious techcrunch)
• Why Do People Nofollow Unimportant Pages? - Search Engine Roundtable
  I still think adding nofollow to internal links is madness, and I love this in the comments: "To be clear, I recommend that my clients use this tactic (nofollow) but I have, personally, always felt a little fishy about using the tactic". Priceless!
  (tags: searchengineroundtable nofollow)
• Human Hardware: Men, Women and How We Find Our Way | SearchEngineLand
  "Another possible implication is that men enjoy virtual games more because navigating through the game environment is done at a subconscious level, whereas with women, it occupies more of the executive brain function, creating greater cognitive load."
  (tags: games navigation gender search searchengineland)
• How to Stop Being Invisible as a Blogger | Copyblogger
  "If you're going to be successful online, you need to find the overlap between what you want to write and what other people want to hear".
  (tags: blogging copyblogger)
• SEO's Still Dominating Digg - ShoeMoney®
  Well, let's be honest here, it was only either going to be the SEO regulars, or an insanely keen cabal of Apple fanboys...
  (tags: digg seo shoemoney)
• Google closes Librarian Central | Phil Bradley's weblog
  "The weblog has become an embarrassment to them and the best way of getting librarians off their back is a) by getting rid of it and b) making a display of continuing to talk to us with a newsletter that they'll update when they feel like it."
  (tags: google philbradley librarians)
• Google Librarian Central
  Here it is...13 months between blogs posts, and the second one announces they value the blog, but are shutting it down.
  (tags: google librarians)
• Buzzmachine goes clunk: When media companies do tech » niksilver.com
  "I hope that interlude shows that developing in-house technical capability is essential to any media organisation that is even fractionally ambitious. That capability will always include people, and sometimes hardware or software". Great post from Nik.
  (tags: niksilver jeffjarvis technology media newspapers)

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