links for 2011-07-14

"So this very quick canter through 15 years of social activity at BBC Online is, in lots of way, as  the baseball player Yogi Berra so memorably put it. “it’s like Deja Vu, all over again”"

"I never intended to write publicly about why I left Google, but it seems necessary to give people some facts that they can refer to, and not have people speculating and making stuff up."

Interesting feature with ian Katz talking about Guardian coverage of the phone-hacking story.

Almost haiku-esque in simplicity

Includes the killer line: "The illegal version isn't just free. It's better."

"The Sun says today its source was a member of the public whose family has also experienced cystic fibrosis, and “had links” with the Brown family. But what kind of an idiot would expose someone else’s son’s medical condition to raise awareness of an illness while remaining anonymous themselves?"