links for 2008-01-29

"The Croydon Advertiser has been banned from Crystal Palace for 2 weeks after it published what the club felt was an unbalanced story about a player's involvement in a fight". Ah, footballers, above the law of the land, and beyond reproach it seems.

"The Indy seems to have given Andrew Keen a column about the internet. I know the Indy is famously anti-web but this is like giving Stevie Wonder a photography column". ROFL

"Injuries suffered on open air ice rinks are placing an extra burden on hospital casualty departments. Ice skating is growing in popularity, driven by TV programmes such as ITV's Dancing on Ice". Is there nothing that can't be blamed on cheap TV?

"Drivers can pay through the Web site, SMS, in shops equipped with a PayPoint, or by phone. My advice? Take the train. It's a lot easier than having to run around town, looking for a place to pay". Or, use the SMS, web site or phone you just mentioned?

"When I research articles I never seem to get good links coming up from the search engines from ITV or Channel 4. The BBC frequently comes up". Interesting and passionate defence of BBC new media and existence of the Licence Fee going forward

"The first alternative we Londoners should protest against to the utmost, for if it be carried out then Epping Forest is turned into a mere place of vulgarity, is destroyed in fact". William Morris being environmentally aware in the 1890s

I'll need to revisit to check, but I think the owl in this stained-glass window frowned down on me as I climbed the stairs to the "Reference Library" when I was a child. You remember Reference Libraries? Like Google, but you had to physically visit them.

"The Express story is based entirely on Fuller's statistics, a reaction from the Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green, and a quote from anti-immigration spokesman Sir Andrew Green. In other words, it is almost entirely lacking any actual journalism".

"Wired has an article which Frank Rose and I wrote describing what happens to a blog post once you hit 'publish'. The article has now made it to the web as a snappy flash graphic which allows you to move around the diagram to focus on the details".