links for 2008-07-05

"After yesterday, this just felt like too much overthinking an easy, simple change while a far more important issue was left without any public commentary on the blog at all". Danny less than impressed with Google fretting over homepage word count.

I was lucky enough to see a panel discussion about the 50th anniversary of BBC television news in 2004 featuring Charles Wheeler, who was a great source of anecdotes, and had some very formidable opinions about the news business.

My write-up at the time of the 2004 BBC News anniversary panel event which featured the late Sir Charles Wheeler.

Getting into bed with the BPI and sending threatening snail-mail? I think that is Virgin Media firmly booted off my list of potential broadband suppliers for if/when I return to the UK.

From the comments: "There are no privacy issues here- just liberals trying to make an issue out of nothing". Yeah. Stupid damn liberals. Who wouldn't expect that time you strolled to the newsagent being the default Internet view of a location?

"Mr Davies added: 'Google likes to think of itself as a global player. In reality it is acting like an irresponsible adolescent. It's time for the company to take responsibility for its actions and to do the right thing.'"