links for 2008-11-27
by Martin Belam, 27 November 2008
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"If you’re comment spamming, if you’re creating content that has no reason to really exist –that doesn’t add value — that especially is of the nonsensical variety. Stop it. You’re p|$$ing all over the web. You’re p|$$ing into my search results. You’re wasting my time, the time of others and potentially your own, by not putting your energies into more productive and long-term strategies". Danny calls out the content spammers
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"But the big one by my reckoning was a plan to incorporate much more metadata in to all BBC news material. This sounds incredibly boring, and inputting it probably will be". Metadata? Boring? No way, Charlie. Honest.
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Hmm, makes me wonder how long I can keep up the currybet*dotnet* when everyone in the world just calls it currybet...
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"The police have no Public Order Act powers to control the monthly Critical Mass cycle ride through the streets of London, the Law Lords ruled today".