links for 2009-10-28

"2009 has already become the biggest ever year for UK singles with more than 117m sold to date", so what we'd like now is the Government to remove Internet access from the evil people who have utterly decimated our busine....oh, hang on...

"Our huge rebuild and redesign of guardian.co.uk was a successful project. Once it was done we could have slumped back, exhausted. But instead we used it as a springboard to start additional exciting (and arguably controversial) work."

"Except, er, no one asked him [about his favourite biscuit]. As Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts has now clarified in a posting on the website, the biscuit question proposed by various messageboard users was never put to Gordon Brown in the hour that he devoted to the interview". Ah that old thing, fact-checking before writing a story about the internet...

"While the internet offers the chance for everyone to speak, it generally favours the voices of a particular socio-economic, digitally literate group of people who communicate on some specific platforms that those in power seem to listen to."

"Indeed, Next Left can now declare that the unlikely winner of 'greenest top Tory blogger' is John Redwood MP. Redwood's combines his own scepticism with the argument that it would be prudent to take some steps to adapt to possible negative consequences".

Fantastic little flash application. As a young(-ish) bloke in London, it appears my biggest worries are suicide and smoking - I don't plan on doing either in the near future. [via @VicThompson]

Ah, I remember the lengthy arguments I once had at Sony about whether it was acceptable to de-scope writing and applying the CSS to the vanilla HTML bare-bones of a CMS [via the-now-defected Paul Carvill]

"So as I approach the end of our two weeks away from the London CoJo office, I’m reminded of the blinkered and unforgiving view I have of journalists and the kind of people they are. They aren’t all one kind of person and they’re not necessarily anything like me. No surprises there. If only I could remember that the next time I sense that frustration rising up like bile inside of me."