links for 2008-06-10

"The majority of those detained were rounded up after disturbances in the city centre, with 140 of those arrested coming from a group of German fans who were chanting Nazi slogans, and who included known hooligans".

"Nowhere in the press coverage of the review will you find a single mention of the extensive audience research the trust commissioned, which found that online users thoroughly appreciated its breadth, quality, reliability and impartiality".

"Episode nine of series four, Forest of the Dead, scored an Appreciation Index of 89. Equal to last week, the figure is the joint highest score for the programme for all time". Better than that Hartnell one with the brains in the jars? Never!!!

It is the same old, same old. You know, if Firefox locked everyone into using 'Live Search' by default, people would be hollering from the rooftops about it...

"They haven't joined together to implement a new standard. Rather, they are simply making a joint stand in messaging that robots.txt is the standard way of blocking search engine robot access to web sites". And not ACAP it didn't add, but could of done.

"I am totally hooked. Plurk is by far, more fun, more colorful and more interactive than Twitter and since Twitter has had so many technical issues lately, I’m really starting to think that Plurk might just be my new addiction". Nobody likes downtime.

"Saudi Arabian football authorities are investigating an error that led to the Syrian national anthem being played before a match against Lebanon. Syrian influence in Lebanon remains one of the most divisive issues there". Ouch.

"Some people...want to let [harassing] posts stand (as anti-censorship; because they agree with the harassment; or because they lead dull lives and watching someone get harassed is the most exciting thing that's happening to them that week)"

"This also means that you shouldn't be very concerned about seeing negative effects on your site's presence on Google if you notice someone scraping your content". Google officially put some duplicate content myths to rest.

"Twitter, you need to wake up and realize, people will go where the conversations are happening, right now that conversation isn't happening on your service because you are always BROKEN or limiting the use. Use your funding to fix this, and fix it fast."

"The European court of human rights has ruled that Greece was guilty of violating freedom of expression by convicting the daily paper I Avgi and its editor, Konstantinos Karis, of libel in 2003". Interestingly, I'm yet to see this reported over here...

"Apple's ambitions remain relatively small, with Jobs publicly making a conservative estimate of 10m sales by the end of 2008. Such numbers are small fry in a global mobile phone business that is expected to sell more than 1bn handsets this year."