links for 2008-06-25

Truly the product of having more money than sense...

Annie questions why the Baker Street station signs have been excised from the new Piriton poster campaign. Me, I'm more intrigued by the entirely inplausable "Villa Win Cup" back page headline on the newspaper that is causing someones allergy.

"I’m not aware that there’s any solution which has 100% success at differentiating humans from bots. Any barrier put in place to spam will also create a barrier for *somebody*". Good overview of possible methods, and not as bleak as that quote sounds.

"While news organizations continue to worry about what Google is doing, the company is far from achieving the dominant position in news it has in other areas. 6 years on, Google News appears to be stuck in neutral and struggling to keep up with rivals."

"If Google stays out, then it should give any site the ability to do the same without the absurd requirement that the sites completely opt-out of being listed in Google at all."