links for 2008-10-30

It is becoming a UGC "perfect storm" - this Express article's comments thread has been hijacked by 9/11 "Truthers" going on about WTC7 again!

"The result? If it had been two newspaper journalists there almost certainly would have been virtually no press criticism, few complaints, no apologies, no suspensions, no resignations, no inquiries, no fines".

I started reading this expecting to diss it because of the title, but Amy actually turns what I would consider a dumb question into a useful little post about planning ahead for growth.

Article bemoaning the quirky and disappointing ways of Yahoo! Buzz. The last sentence is "So the question still remains… Is Yahoo’s Buzz really just a Buzz-kill?". The next thing on the page is a big Yahoo! Buzz button saying 'Like The Story? Vote For It On Yahoo Buzz!' :-)

"My biggest challenge has always been convincing senior level management of the importance of search marketing. No matter where I have been there have always been those who do not see the ROI / need / value for any type of search marketing - usually they relied completely on brand recognition to drive traffic."

"Due to his convictions for possessing child pr0n and obscene acts against children, 'Do You Wanna Touch Me' is quite possibly one of the most inappropriate songs to choose from his back catalogue". ROFL.

"One comment, apparently left by British columnist AA Gill, said: 'The banality is shocking'". I'm not entirely sure how the Mail can suggest it might *actually* be AA Gill based on the evidence - later in the original thread on Nylon there is a comment by Jack Kerouac, and I'm fairly certain *he* died in the 60s...

"The BBC suffered another blow when Mr Sachs denied he had approved the broadcast of the offending material. Mr Sachs said: 'The producer called me on my mobile to ask whether they could play the recording out. The signal was poor and I couldn't really hear what was being played down the line to me. But I asked whether they would consider allowing me to come in the following week and then the recorded segment would not have to be included.'" The request by Mr Sachs was ignored by the BBC and what happened next will form the crux of the internal investigation.

"MediaGuardian.co.uk understands that on the day the Brand and Ross's calls to Sachs' answerphone were recorded, a producer from the BBC rang the former Fawlty Towers actor to ask if he would mind them being used. It is claimed that Sachs said they could be, as long as they were toned down a bit".