links for 2008-01-08

"Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column. He wanted to prove the furore over the loss of 25 million people's personal details on two computer discs was a fuss about nothing". Not funny enough.

"Sony BMG becomes the last major record company to sell downloads without DRM, but only to buyers who visit a store. They will sell plastic cards for individual albums. Buyers enter a code from the card at MusicPass.com to download it". Utterly bonkers.

"I decided to make a list of the Top 10 Objections to New Online Tools and What You Can Say in Response. I surveyed my nearly 1300 friends on Twitter and got all kinds of thoughtful replies". Replies seeem to be variations on 'Well, at least give it a go'

"One Friday evening at the beginning of November last year I got a phone call from one of our reporters asking whether I knew that Interesource, the company that built My Telegraph and our blogs, had gone into administration. This was news to me". Ouch!

"The average lifespan of an online news story is said to be 32 hours or something. That is more than thirty two times the attention time of an average kid". Odd comparison - the aggregated attention-span of an hour-a-day for days on end doesn't count?

Belam senior is directly called out about the state of Forest Road in Walthamstow

"The decision by the ICC to replace Steve for this match was made in the best interests of the game and the series". But not in the best interests of making a stand over racism it seems...

It would have been William Hartnell's 100th birthday today.

"We are a group of musicians who have downloaded newly leaked albums by popular artists, quickly recorded many subtle overdubs over the work, and then re-leaked it to the internet. We have done this for about three years now". Spoof-or-not, this is genius