links for 2010-08-24

The Internet has ruined my mind. When I saw the clip my instant reaction was 'hoax/viral'.

I like @mediagazer, and they link to currybetdotnet sometimes which is nice, but I can't help thinking that if you need a diagram to explain how you structure your tweets you *may* have failed the 'keep it simple' test...

On the rise of the media accountability blog.

"Thanks to everyone who helped us test our commenting system last week. We're now working on rolling out the same back-end changes across guardian.co.uk."

The job advert is posted as plain text within their robots.txt file. Very neat, and has generated way more publicity than they would have got by placing a conventional advert. Well done. Not as amusing as the last.fm robots.txt. file though.

From the d'oh the irony files...

UK based? Do you blog/write for small and independent online sites, including individual blogs? Then please take a 5 minute survey and help Judith Townend with her MA research on journalism, new media and the law.

One of my Flickr photos of pebbles has been used to represent 'Fiction' by Jenny Adamthwaite. I think this is a lovely way to organise a portfolio homepage.

By subsidising Bellamy's wages at Cardiff, Manchester City's money is now distorting the competition below the Premier League. Especially since it now appears my Leeds are signing Ross McCormack who has become surplus to City's requirements.

We're trying to get together a blogroll of the 1,000+ members of London IA. If your blog URL isn't on your London IA profile, go fix that.

Sad that I missed the Hacks/Hackers meet-up last week - here are pictures of the cards placed in the suggestion box.