links for 2008-02-29

"Google Sites is live and every page on the site uses rel=nofollow. Every URL I create is going to be blocked from link based trust metrics like PageRank? That’s just dumb. I’d rather use another wiki system that doesn’t penalize my linking behavior

"Anybody who knows about internet marketing wondered why a story about using Adwords was big news. Google has a strict trademark policy and the ads were swiftly removed. This campaign was doomed to failure from the start, yet 4 newspapers covered it".

"Here are two more articles about the blog that has triggered controversy about anonymous blogging in Greece". Whilst I have been out of the country, and in China, a huge firestorm has erupted about anonymous political blogging in Greece.

Good value in the comments with a response from Neil to Shane's points.

"sky.com/news got more page impressions at 1 o'clock in the morning yesterday than it did at 9 o'clock. Here's a glimpse under the bonnett at our figures for yesterday". Rather irritatingly, it is a glimpse with all the important numbers scrubbed off ;-)