links for 2008-01-02

"Kelvin Barbery snapped the mystery object from a coastal path near Falmouth. In a weird twist, Kelvin, 55, did not even see the UFO at the time". Nothing on earth will convince *me* it is anything other than a blurred bird in flight however!

"The SEO playbook changes fast. Really fast. Best practices shift on a monthly basis, and time-honoured methods can become obsolete and dangerous – literally overnight."

Ah, Jet Set Willy, second-hand vinyl, and C90 obsessions, in one top ten list seemingly perfectly tailored to my individual nostalgic interests!

"If the existence of terrorists, these few desperate extremists, makes it necessary for everybody in Britain to carry an ID card then it is a price too high. It is more than a price, it is a defeat". Excellent summary of the argument from Andrew O'Hagan

"Based on the StumbleUpon metrics, we hypothesized that although the site looked really cool, it wasn't very user friendly". Interesting application of StumbleUpon data, although the example given doesn't sound like rocket surgery to have fixed anyway.

Points out that the homepage archive now runs behind real-time - I see that England can still qualify for Euro2008. I doubt the codebase for this will cope with the change to the new personalised Web 2.0 whizzy beta thing