links for 2008-04-12

"On the web, unique in its capacity for breadth and depth, word counts should surely be a redundant measure of an article". My personal rule is to write as much as I want, and then use 500-750 words, or each sub-topic, as the measure to chunk into parts.

"Over the next few months My Telegraph and Telegraph blogs will be completely rebuilt. They have been temporarily housed at our offices since the company that built them was closed down late last year". The perils out out-sourced tech.

I'm willing to wager Tom Utley will have an expanded Wikipedia entry pretty soon after publishing this article which seems to pin the decline of Western civilisation on his son's ability to vandalise Wikipedia, the BBC and Google's stance on advertising.

I think this is the first time in two years that an event I'd really like to go to has co-incided with me being in the UK. I've booked a place, but then again, it does clash with the first leg of Liverpool-Chelsea in the Champions League...

OMG, Serbia has named a planned mass-transit system after me!

Are elite Flickr users the Internet's equivalent of the Daily Express reader? "Oh, change. I don't like it". I bet these were the same people protesting that Flickr might have been sold to Microsoft in the Yahoo! deal-that-isn't-quite-yet

"Google says that for the past few months, it has been filling in forms on a 'small number' of 'high-quality' web sites to get information". Hmm, if someone else other than Google was doing this for commercial gain, wouldn't it be described as hacking?

Greg Sterling with a round-up of some screenshots of smaller search engines that are trying to look like iTunes 'cover flow' rather than the dull and traditional "ten blue links"

Now Google allows collaborative data sharing on selected widgets in a kind of 'Google Docs for Widgets' approach

Funny piece of linkbait with a couple of really strong analogies. But, I have to admit it caught my eye in my RSS reader because I first read the headline as "6 Ways That Bloggers are Like Rapists".