links for 2009-05-16

"One of the more interesting observations I’ve made over the years as a participant in social media is how differently males and females participate. It is easy to see a strong analogy between the playing field of social media and the playground from elementary school."

Spares and accessories for TiVo machines. I'm hoping to coax mine back into life after a couple of years in storage.

"The first four days of revelations about MPs' expenses published in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph boosted net circulation of the two titles by around 220,000 copies, with the sales bounce expected to continue across this week as further revelations about contentious claims were unveiled". Good news for the Telegraph and bad news for our politicians

Dave presents some potential use cases.

Emily says: "We have built our traffic on a higher investment in original multimedia journalism than most if not all of our peers. We have an active policy NOT to routinely aggregate high-grossing showbusiness, celebrity or ‘weird’ stories from elsewhere, which is common practice among some newspaper websites."

Look, I'm no business guru, but the future business model for journalism surely isn't regionalised price wars? Is it?