links for 2008-09-19

Looks like another case of 1) Visit B3ta 2) Ignore any concept of copyright or credit 3) Profit!. Amoebaboy and The Great Architect at least haven't been totally cropped out of the Mail's "borrowed" images. Not clear if they've ripped them directly from B3ta's Aug 6th Recession challenge, or the BoreMe gallery from a fortnight ago with the same selection of pictures.

Journalism.co.uk blog piece about my UK newspaper social media e-book

As pointed out by @qwghlm on Twitter, here, from the paper that last week was publishing an expose of the terrible harm done by 'an establishment paedophile', are some pictures of barely legal Angelina Jolie at 16 for their readers to perv over. Still, at least she isn't the 16-year-old curvaceous swimsuit model this time, eh?

The story implies that they then raided the person who had tipped them off about seeing the missing stick. I'll be interested to see how this story develops...

In all the excitement, I'd missed the fact that to steal the original Hazel Blears image, the staff at the Daily Mail had to get around an IP ban preventing them accessing the site hosting it after a previous picture theft incident.

"Still, at the end of the day, I have to commend Oprah for a very real and non-sensational portrait of one aspect of the child molestation issue. I'm also very thankful for her very practical realism about the Internet in this issue. The Internet is undoubtedly allowing easier access to child porn, but it is also allowing investigators to get at guys who show no other markers of their molestation". Thankfully, not all media output about child abuse has to be sensationalist nonsense.

"Google Trends certainly suggests that 'porn' is a much more common UK search term than 'bbc weather'" -although, frankly, how little imagination do you actually have if you just type 'porn' into Google?