links for 2007-12-21

"to put 'complain about this post' at the bottom, rather than, to 'discuss', compounds a move towards a pc, american style suing culture that kills off debate & liberal thought for fear of contraversy". Ash doesn't quite get reactive moderation

Uses search as the example, which may be a bit 'early-adopter-ish', but stresses that conferences get covered by blogs much more than by traditional press or trade mags in print.

Using nofollow to control which pages get juicy or not, and to drop 'unhelpful' anchor text.

A new Trojan that hijacks Google text ads and replaces them with ads from a different provider has been picked up by BitDefender.

"Some truly naive people believe Google is going to be able to police and editorially control Knol pages. Have you been to Blogger recently?". Spamming Knols is already hot!