links for 2008-12-09

One of the better responses to the Scorpions album cover "outrage". Surprised the mid-market papers haven't made more of it today to be honest.

"5) Strategically place typos in your blog posts. Blogs tend to be less formal and rife with spelling and grammatical errors". I've been strategically wroking that way for years...

"The Google AdWords blog just announced they are now allowing search ads for hard alcohol and liqueurs". I think this must be a US only change. Drunken Brits have been trading alcohol-sodden keyword advertising for years, surely?

Sadly Teacher Dude makes the salient point that when police beat up Cypriot student, Avgoustinos Dimitriou or when Nigerian national Tony Onouha died after "falling" from the balcony during a police chase, nobody took to the streets.

"However you break down the numbers, regionals perform significantly worse in picking up Internet subscribers. When you do look at UK nationals, The Guardian has 118k Google / RSS subscribers and the FT 45k. With a print circulation of 348,878, the number of print copies the Guardian sells is 2.9x higher than its Google RSS subscriber count. For the top performing British regional daily - the Eastern Daily press, that ratio is over 500:1"

"A few weeks ago, Charles Arthur (The Guardian's technology editor) wrote a piece on this subject. He talked about a site called TwitterRank...Charles rightly advised people not to give their password to random web sites. But I knew that he had written the article because his Twitterfeed account posted details to his Twitter stream. When I pointed out the irony in a comment he seemed to miss the point."

"An appeal judge in Australia has ruled that an animation depicting well-known cartoon characters engaging in sexual acts is child pr0nography". Good to see that it isn't just the UK that has lost all sense of proportion on this issue. But where does that leave the London 2012 logo - a lot of people see Lisa Simpson in that...?