links for 2009-01-14

Nice heat maps but the conclusion isn't exactly rocket science - "What was found is that the position with the highest CTR is the top spot in the natural search results".

Oooh, I like being able to add social media success directly into the analytics interface.

Interesting article about football in Israel, which gives us a big question for Scotland. In Israel, "Last year Beitar Jerusalem had to play a game behind closed doors after their fans sang songs defaming the Prophet Muhammad during a cup game". Now, I wonder, can we all think of the last time that the SFA ordered a team to play behind closed doors for bigoted religious-based songs and chants?

"Presumably, the logic runs: if a bunch of adults can produce an Olympic design that looks like the work of a child, perhaps the opposite is also true."

Spotted via @Mark_Mulligan on Twitter and made me feel *so* less geeky about Doctor Who. I'm not sure I can even tell the different Tom Baker era K-9 props apart from a distance, let alone the scarves. Although I guess knowing that there *were* different K-9 props is pretty damn geeky, huh?

"The BBC has produced a map and searchable database of all known violent deaths of teenagers in the UK last year. Head of its website Specials Team, Bella Hurrell, said the multimedia project aims to 'tell the complete story of teen killings in 2008'". I'm not knocking the production here, but I genuinely wish someone would do something to put this into perspective with the scale of pedestrians under the age of 19 who are seriously injured or killed in road accidents. At around 2,500 per year, there would be a *lot* of pin-points in that particular interactive map.

The aptly named Theo Hobson starts musing on the wording of the atheist bus advert, and starts people a-worrying in the comments section...

"A comment below the article questions the paper’s decision to reveal user information. ‘Silky’ writes: 'Seriously though, I think people feel able to post and air their true opinion safe in the knowledge that they are kept anonymous. I for one don’t appreciate the Echo revealing personal details of posters, especially to create a pretty boring scoop’". Does the site's T&Cs cover "outing" people from the comments...?