links for 2008-11-06

"With very few exceptions," the report says, "our research found that Fortune 500 companies are doing an extraordinarily poor job of ensuring that their 'money' keywords are even moderately well represented in natural search."

"Comedy is and must remain a really important area of output for the BBC and one where we must be able to remain at the cutting edge. For some years now there has been a consensus in the industry that comedy is an area of market failure – that commercial players just can’t take the risks in supporting new comedy talent. Many of the risks are all too apparent this week, but they also include the fact that this sort of talent needs nurturing and support, often through one or two first series before they hit real success and only a public broadcaster with access to secure funds can do this". The phrase 'only a public broadcaster with access to secure funds' obviously explains why American comedy output isn't a success, or funny, unless it originates from PBS...

"Lord Justice Dyson agreed, saying that two Greek psychiatrists had examined Mr Hogan, but it was not clear – 'at any rate to the eyes of an English lawyer' – what they were saying about whether Mr Hogan understood that what he was doing was wrong". Well, of course, I mean, who would take the word of some FOREIGN psychiatrists against that of a BRITISH man who had pushed his two children off a balcony?

"A little sign of the way in which this election has touched people is the fact that you cannot buy a copy of the Washington Post today for love nor money". Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated etc etc...

"Minister contrasts collapse of interest in British politics with surge in US turnout". Martin contrasts collapse of interesting politicians in Britain with surge in US turnout. Oh, hang on, now I'm just being nihilist.

"Initially, the problem was that the BBC just wasn't linking out enough which, in its position as the biggest UK website and as a publicly funded entity, means it has an obligation to the the nation's greatest purveyor of links."

"Ever since I concentrated on SEO for international clients entering the German market I not only was astounded by lots of localisation mistakes. It strikes me even more how international clients, big companies or should I say corporations literally sabotage their own SEO success".

One of the web's gateways for borderline comment spam - a search engine that only returns results from blogs that 'dofollow'

I get a bit nervous when my Sunday afternoon blogging hazy recollection of events starts becoming the de facto historical truth according to teh interwebz.