links for 2009-10-14

If you only read one more piece about the Guardian / Carter-Ruck / Trafigura gagging order story and the waves it sent through social media yesterday, then make it this one - it starts with a beautiful observation that I think perfectly captures the inevitable flow of events yesterday: “Water having a route that it would take, no matter how you tried to divert it. It would always find a way, a natural path”

A very topical post on the origins of the press reporting of parliament in times gone by, from one of my favourite newspaper blogs.

Our aggregation page of both our original reporting on the story and the continued fall-out from the failed gagging order

Loved this user assessment of the situation: "Guardian in finding any way possible to talk about twitter shocker. We get it, you like twitter...now stop boring us to death with it."

"I was amused to note that Mr Wilders and Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger gave exactly the same reaction to today's developments. It was, they said, "a great day for freedom of speech". It was. But there's an interesting distinction between the two cases. In one, a politician stepped forward to rescue free expression from a judicial attempt to suppress it. In the other, a court had to save freedom of speech from a politician."

The BBC's report on Trafigura and the toxic dumping in Ivory Coast.

"We’re loving the fact that The Voicebot is doing its job and being used in exactly the way we wanted it to be used, as a channel to raise awareness of the public’s opinion on the issues that matter to them."