links for 2008-02-28

"Britain's biggest private sector union is using 'cyber-warfare' to open a new front in a campaign against Marks & Spencer over workers’ rights". For exciting 'cyber-warfare' read AdWords campaign that probably won't survive a brand hi-jack complaint.

"I will be very interested to find out whether it is the sort of access that is 'convenient' to journalists & athletes or to the Chinese government, which finds so much about openness and discussion inconvenient". Not noticed any problems in Macau so far.

"Even if you do have all your eggs in a single basket, you can avoid the panic mode if you have your research done. Moral of the story? Diversify so you can minimize your revenue loss when disaster strikes… think of it not as if but when".

"Wikipedia and Digg are celebrated as shining examples of Web democracy, places built by millions of Web users. In reality, a small number of people are running the show". Cites Slashdot as a better Web 2.0 model, despite it existing since (approx) 1862.

"I suspect that, reading this, many My Telegraph members will look to us - the Telegraph community team - to define the culture and what is tolerated but actually it's the users themselves who define these things".

Cunningly released whilst I am on holiday, so can't write a 17 part series waxing lyrical about my nostalgia for the old design, and did I ever tell you about that time I got the font colours changed in an emergency etc etc... ;-)