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• 10 ways that ad sales people can save newspapers | Online Journalism Blog
  "Incredibly, many ad sales people are not allowed access to the internet at work". I assume, initially in the 1950s, there must have been ad sales staff who didn't have access to TV and were only allowed to listen to the radio whilst selling telly slots they never saw.
  (tags: television newspapers advertising onlinejournalismblog)
• Woman in Short Dress Sues Over Posting at Newspaper Site | Editor & Publishing
  Great headline and the story doesn't disappoint...well, unless you were hoping for pictures.
  (tags: ugc newspapers)
• Virtual Economics: The innocent will hide what we damned well like, part #2
  "The latest [Gvmt website] is a social network / discussion board / poorly thought-out and ill-defined pseudo-web2.0 project that lets people have their say about ID cards. Surprisingly enough, the board contains little other than people pointing out what a deplorable idea. See here, for example. So this post is just to say thanks, HMG, for spending my taxes on this. I assume you looked into the matter carefully and established that previously there was no facility anywhere on the web for people to comment on ID cards."
  (tags: idcards egovernment virtualeconomics)
• The Brussels budget: read it and weep :: Daniel Hannan
  "Well, mes amis, have a look at Chris's figures. He has gone through the budget line by line and revealed exactly where the euros go. Anyone who reads to the end and continues to support European integration is either touchingly determined to elevate hope over experience or -€” more likely -€” is on the payroll himself."
  (tags: eu telegraph corruption)
• HDTV - your personal route to confusion | MediaBlog | From Transdiffusion
  "The industry has a big part to play in the problem. 'HD Ready' is perhaps the worst marketing term you could give for a TV - 'ready for HD TV' is most likely to be taken as, 'hey, when HD TV starts, this will just work! Cool! Isn't that great?' rather than the actual answer of 'This TV will give you HD pictures when you go out and buy a new HD set top box!'".
  (tags: television marketing hdtv)
• Applying Turing's Ideas to Search - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design
  "In fact, server logs reveal that this is one of the most common reasons searches fail: users often provide only a vague description of what they want. Worse still, in testing we found that users had difficulty recognizing when their searches weren'€™t well-phrased, and they tended to blame the poor results on the system, not themselves". Great article from John.
  (tags: johnferrara search alanturing)

• Has Yahoo! Buzz Lived Up to the Buzz? - ReadWriteWeb
  "To summarize, Yahoo! Buzz is social insofar as a community of users gets to submit content, and vote/share it. Anything more than that, Yahoo! Buzz doesn't do."
  (tags: socialmedia yahoobuzz readwriteweb)
• How Google Earth Helped Win A Gold Medal | TechCrunch
  "When she did her time trials in December, 2007 in China, she took along her husband’s GPS unit to capture the elevation along the route. Then she used that data to find the best training route back home". Inspired use of technology.
  (tags: googleearth olympics china cycling)
• Search & Internet Explorer 8 | Danny Sullivan | SearchEngineLand
  "After finally getting the new Internet Explorer 8 beta installed (demands to upgrade Windows, verify Windows, sigh)" - oh, well that isn't going to work over Greek dial-up then is it? I'll wait til I'm back in London...
  (tags: dannysullivan searchengineland internetexplorer ie8 beta microsoft)
• Alas the days of being '€˜first'€™ are long gone; now the challenge is to be the best of the seconds. » Out With A Bang
  "9 times out of 10 these days, the messageboards are 'first'€™ with any transfer news - the news relayed by such pillars of the citizen publishing community as the baggage handler, the taxi driver and the hotel porter. Anyone, in short, who is armed with a mobile phone and an ability to recognise Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink at 20 paces. And fair play to them. To decry their right to such an old fashioned back-page '€™scoop'€™ is to fly in the face of web reason; that'€™s the nature of the beast. That€'s the reality."
  (tags: football journalism outwithabang)
• How to Read | Copyblogger
  Seemed like a really useful article but I only skimmed it etc etc...
  (tags: writing copyblogger)
• Six things that annoy me about newspaper websites | Internet Marketing News and Blog | E-consultancy.com
  "Many of the UK's newspaper websites have been redesigned over the past year or so and, in general, most are pretty good". The inspiration for Jemima's PDA piece, also mentions the currybetdotnet site search smackdown.
  (tags: newspapers econsultancy currybetdotnet)
• Gripes about newspaper sites - Jemima Kiss | PDA: The Digital Content Blog | guardian.co.uk
  Mentions the old currybetdotnet newspaper site search smackdown in passing.
  (tags: guardian currybetdotnet jemimakiss)
• Julie Moult is an idiot | Bloggerheads (UK)
  The Internet versus Daily Mail/Sun journalist handily illustrates just how easy it can be to manipulate Google - provided you've done the hard work of building a solid Internet reputation first.
  (tags: dailymail google search juliemoult bloggerheads spam)

• DOPPLR: a trip to Elounda in August for Martin Belam
  I'm on holiday for a week next week, with absolutely no guarantee of any internet access whatsoever. The publishing should tick over, but don't expect any del.icio.us links, or for comments to be moderated and published.
  (tags: currybetdotnet dopplr)
• Bono leaks his own tracks accidentally » mathewingram.com/work
  "The Sun being the kind of newspaper it is, it''s difficult to tell whether this report is 100 per cent true or not". Matthew Ingram gives The Sun a generous benefit of the doubt
  (tags: u2 piracy thesun matthewingram)
• Leapfroglog - The making of a travel-time map of the Netherlands
  Awesome set of visualisations of travel distances in the Netherlands from Kars, but I have to say, without being mean, I was slightly misled by the title - there doesn't seem to be any time travel involved at all ;-)
  (tags: visualization travel transport maps leapfroglog)
• Classic Who comes to iTunes | Outpost Gallifrey
  "A number of stories have been released that are avaiable nowhere else (with the VHS releases now long out-of-print), like 'The Krotons', 'The Sun Makers' and 'Planet of the Spiders'". Unless, of course, you are in the UK, in which case you can bloody well make do with re-watching your scratchy old VHS tapes and repeats on UK Gold.
  (tags: doctorwho outpostgallifrey itunes television)
• Pubs ditch Sky football as credit crunch bites | Business | The Observer
  Don't tell me I'm going to get back to the Uk and find that it was easier to watch Premiership football over here...
  (tags: sky pubs premiership football television observer)
• Pure gold - Nine medals on Britain's greatest day in Olympic history - and more to come today | Mail Online
  Ah, you really can't win, can you, even if you are an Olympic champion. Some of the user comments praising them for achieving this despite not enough funding from the Government. Some of the user comments saying it is about time we got value for the money wasted on them by the Government. And a couple chipping in from down under to point out that relative to population size, Australia and New Zealand are doing much better! [Bonus point if you spot the comment from someone saying they don't support Team GB because it is too politically correct!]
  (tags: olympics dailymail teamgb)