links for 2009-12-03

In the midst of this article: "Clearly, if people value a site, they will pay for it". Nail. Head.

Includes a picture of how the main theatre looked shortly before it was closed. I dread to think the state it is in now.

The bit at 2'22" made me laugh when they stopped trying to reinvent the magazine for the digital era and instead concentrated on "OMG in the future you'll be able to see her breasts wobble" as if there had never been soft-pr0n in cyberspace before

"It means building sites that perform well for humans, not search engines. It means we have to stop thinking about users, but start thinking of readers, listeners, viewers. One day, even customers". Mmm, IMHO 'doing SEO' does not equal 'stop building websites for your audience'. But if you read currybetdotnet you know that already...

"A quick look at the traffic figures for the Guardian's technology pages, for example, suggests that Google News is responsible for around 2% of all the readers that come our way, while Google itself brings maybe a quarter of traffic. Those figures are pretty representative across the industry."