links for 2008-11-05

"last night [she] took to the stage with her dance troupe for another vulgar, blood-soaked show in London's Holborn". So vulgar, in fact, that here is a massive picture of her in lingerie, soaked in blood, just in case the outraged reader couldn't imagine it.

A really good read for any one who doesn't understand exactly the lengths some SEO and webmaster operatives will go to get the *right* link in the *right* place on the *right* site

Interesting post about the murder of Sophie Lancaster which touches on a lot of themese to do with "hate crime", self-identity, "victim culture" and being a goth. An excellent guest post by James Rattue.

A slightly more formal write-up of my impressions of this year's Euro IA Summit in Amsterdam for this month's edition of FUMSI.

"And when we say every platform we really mean it, including TV, Radio, the web, Mobile services, Interactive TV and even Ceefax. World Service sites in different languages and Arabic TV are also all working off the same results. The typo has never had so much potential for speedy multi-platform evil".