links for 2011-01-10

Chris Elliot has predictably not got a dearth of comments in response to this article, which looks at how contributions to comment in both the analogue and digital world skews towards the male. I think my favourite comment in response suggests that maybe women are actually getting on with *doing* more important stuff than mouthing off on the interwebs...

Danny Sullivan takes Blekko's aggresive move as the starting point to examine the current trend to examine whether Google's business practices are destroying the credibility of their own search results.

David Worlock makes a different but related point in TheMediaBriefing - that increasing use of semantic technology is making vertical search more useful than general web search...

...and a third tranche of attacks against Google via Jon Slattery

@solle announces that in the next few months London IA events will see talks from Jason Mesut, Mark Plant, Relly Annett-Baker, Dan Lockton, Andrew Travers, Leisa Reichelt, *cough* Martin Belam, and Charlie Gower

"This photographic postcard shows Leytonstone station in 1904. A large crowd of commuters, mostly men, has gathered on the platform". Rush hour has always been rush hour. [via @octodude]

Number #1 is enjoy it.