links for 2010-09-28

I have to say that when I read her original post, I couldn't help but feel it was the kind of thing you should write for the theraputic value, sit on for a day, and then decide not to publish. Not least for the fact that several people in the comments called her out for undermining the value of their profession by being willing to do it for nothing in the first place.

"Both within the academy and within tech startups, we’ve been hearing some similar questions lately: Where can I find a good data scientist? What do I need to learn to become a data scientist? Or more succinctly: What is data science?"

A little bit late, but I've finally actually made a category on here for my posts about linked data and the semantic web

"A Twitter campaign is underway to highlight the number of football stories being broken by the Daily Star Sunday newspaper in England. All the articles in question share certain characteristics which have attracted the suspicion of a number of online commentators. They all contain quotes from elite footballers from European leagues. None of the players in question speak English as a first language and many of them barely speak English at all. None of them habitually give interviews to the media either. Yet the Daily Star Sunday has somehow managed to overcome this series of seemingly insurmountable obstacles to gain unprecedented access to these players". The question really is how long can this kind of 'journalism' survive with the kind of global scrutiny that it comes under?

Whether you are convinced or not by the photo evidence, I would *love* this to be true...

Qatar's censorship with a cuddly face

Adam makes an interesting point about the platform's penetration and success in the Japanese market being pretty much unreported over here. Personally, I kept a 2005 version of the software running happily without an update for 5 years, so I expect the version that is running now to happily carry on trundling along whatever happens to the mothership that wrote it.

Worth reading for this line alone: "Personally, I haven't been able to take the Bilderberg seriously as a shadow world government since I discovered it was set up by Denis Healey"

Whilst I'm delighted by this, given that 1. the toilets weren't Muslim only, 2. They weren't paid for by the council, and that 3. Muslims and taxpayers are not mutually exclusive groups anyway (as in "The Muslim toilets that YOU pay for"), 'inaccurate' seems a rather gentle way of describing the report...

Scott makes some great points, but having a revision history still leaves open the issue of what to do with 'legal deletes', i.e. things that must become unpublished due to legal intervention or fear of legal intervention.