links for 2008-11-21

"We're still going through the stats, but at the time of writing there were almost 170,000 messages on the Strictly board (most of them left on Wednesday). By seven on Thursday morning the moderators had cleared the entire backlog of more than 2200 messages, and we were back to a clean slate". Very open post from Tom with some big numbers in it.

"The circulation body could eventually approve a metric for time or engagement to sit alongside unique user numbers and page impressions". Oooh, I'd like that.

"Fourteen years after a long-dissolved line up of Guns N’Roses began work on a new album, Dr Pepper issued a press release pledging to give every American a can of their bakewell tart flavoured carbonated drink if Guns N’Roses got around to finishing Chinese Democracy. On this basis, it seems that intervention from Tango might be the world’s only hope of getting to hear Kraftwerk’s new stuff."

"There’s great potential value in Glue Pages for people who want a jumping off point into a topic. There’s much more efficiency in seeing all these sources collected rather than having to click around and conduct multiple searches to find them".

"It would be simple to police. Google their name and if it did not appear, they just aren’t suitable."

"The initiative has been created using the recently launched Publish2 link journalism application from Scott Karp". I'm also playing with Publish2 at the moment, and hope to blog about it soon.