links for 2009-03-23

A humbling apology, and rightly so. But not, of course, on the front page with the same prominence of the original horrible mean-spirited article about teenage Dunblane massacre survivors.

Smart marketing move, or knee-jerk "waste of taxpayers money"? Which do you think?

"Despite tens of thousands of submissions every week, the last seven days have shown that 46.6% of the Digg front page comes from 50 websites". A strong UK showing here - Telegraph at #1, with the Daily Mail at #9 and The Guardian at #10 [via Martin Stabe]

Not , *not* that Mail, where it is especially not a good news day today, but the Burton Mail

"Some would argue that it's a dodgy practice, focused on 'cheating' Google into giving websites higher rankings". Possibly in 2001 people might have argued this...

"I love the idea of panic-stricken members of the public freaking out because they’ve been snapped groping their neighbour or weeing on a hedge. I love Street View and have played with it obsessively (annoyingly, none of my neighbours or friends have been photographed swigging gin in the sunshine – I checked)". India Knight with a refreshingly honest appraisal of the Google Street View privacy hysteria