links for 2008-05-04

Whist the US company is taking the moral high ground, Chinese off-shoots are posting billboards of kids in their underwear. Which seems to beg the question whether it is now ever acceptable to advertise childrens underwear by showing the product in use?

James on maintaining a digital life using the remote power of the cloud. Sounds like the kind of thing I'd love to do, if I only had any bandwidth for half the year. When I'm in Greece, even synching my del.icio.us bookmarks with Firefox is torture!

"We won all the gold medals in the lawn tennis, boxing, yachting and rowing. We won the football, hockey, polo and tug-of-war. And we were the only country to enter the Racquets competition, so not surprisingly we won that too. Bit suspicious, innit?"

Excellent list of character blogging initiatives, along with a description of some of the potential pit-falls.

Hmm, I need to establish a list like this for when I'm in London that extends beyond just sitting in Walthamstow Library all day.

"The potential applications of these keyword trending tools are already myriad. Obvious next steps include mashing up the existing data sources to provide both aggregate and comparative trends across the various forums/services".

"Here Annie Lennox enthuses about the new light-weight VHS camerapack from Sony and suggests that we use it to make interesting documentary films that we can send to Channel Four. The power source is presumably following on an articulated lorry".