links for 2009-03-28

Points Of View message board usage figures work out to less than 1,500 unique visitors per day. Definitely more than the 50 regulars I suggested, but wow, that is low for the cost and effort expended on moderating them - and for the amount of tabloid press they manage to generate!

"This appears to be a very public audition process. You put yourself up for selection using Twitter. The fair's organisers might or might not think you worthy of inclusion in their mosaic. And then they might or might not want to hire you on the day. And everybody reading the webpage will be able to discover the precise point at which the organisers lost interest. It's like they're doing you a favour, rather than the other way round."

Video interview with Chris Thorpe about the Guardian Open Platform launch.

Drew and Julian talk about SEO at the other two big boradsheet UK online papers. Lovely to hear that SEO and search has became a mainstream occupation for big publishers, but I, naturally, wish them no luck whatsoever in doing it well ;-)

The Heresiarch is unimpressed with the moderation on Comment Is Free, where he has been trying to re-post the text of a declaration signed by Dr Daud Abdullah of the MCB.