links for 2008-10-02

"Chelsea played CFR Cluj in the Champions League last night, and drew 0-0 after being expected to win handsomely. CFR Cluj are from Romania, specifically the Transylvania region, and as such British football journalists went to town with vampire puns".

"Friedrich Schiller, one of Germany's favourite poets and playwrights, has received reminders to pay his television licence - despite having been dead since 1805". And Noel Edmonds was complaining about the BBC's strong-hand tactics!

"Last week I noticed that Telstra’s BigPond is on Twitter. I was thrilled - that is, until I went to their Twitter page. I kid you not; much like Alister Cameron suggests on his blog, it looks like bots are running Twitter for Telstra". How bad twittering can damage your brand

"As link builders, one challenge we all have is showing our clients evidence that our work is having the effect we said it would. What would make this part of the process easier is if there was one single universal tool that could identify every single instance when a site is mentioned, linked, tagged, tweeted, or feeded".

"Google Blog Search just had a big change announced today — top blog posts are now clustered on the home page around particular story topics, similar to how Google News works".

"A multi-platform Doctor Who book project called The Darksmith Legacy will be launching next year. The 10-part collectable series will see the first two books out in January, followed by a new 'episode' every month after that". Online side of it will include exclusive extra content.