links for 2008-02-07

Only just spotted this...from the people who brought you "Brits 45 mins from doom" about Saddam's ability to attack Cyprus with WMDs

"Apple still have the best store. You have to spend hours trawling through eMusic and 7digital to find what you're after. But as increasingly companies wake up to the fact that restricting music is a wate of time, I wish Apple would give up on DRM AAC".

"I went to Walthamstow dog track with the hope of catching some good action shots of the racing. However I was unable to catch anything decent thanks to there being such little ambient light". I've spent many an evening failing to get pictures there.

"The number of people strongly opposed to the introduction of a national identity card scheme has risen sharply. Those campaigning against ID cards said last night that the poll, with results showing that 25% of the public are deeply opposed to the idea".

Shorter forms convert more. Interesting article with figures to prove that knocking a few input boxes out of the conversion process improves conversion rates.

Interesting post on how you need to do different things to promote a blog depending on subscriber count. It reckons 500 is the tipping point between having to actively market yourself or letting your audience do it for you.

"I have decided to do a series of posts on learning and mastering StumblePpon from top to bottom. My goal is to figure out what drives traffic volume, how to create traffic myself, study the stickiness, bounce rates, and quality of that traffic". Top man!

Some very useful tips about making comments work better on a blog with some design and layout tweaks. As it happens, comment visibility is a topic I shall be returning to in the next couple of weeks.

"The ownership of recorded music will be seen as a weird historical anomaly". Go tell that to my meticulously alphabetically filed CD box sets. That I never, ever play. Oh, hang on a minute...

"Conservative MP Hugo Swire has called for a Press Complaints Commission-style regulator to be set up to protect young people on the internet". This will be because the PCC is such an effective regulator I presume?

Ooh, Digg me please...