links for 2009-06-06

From the comments: "Good blog as usual, but I do think that 3 blogs before we play a match that we are really expected to win and is not being eagerly anticpated is a bit of overkill, I mean how much do we really need to know about Kazakhstan, or any other opposing nation for that matter?". Exactly. Bloody foreigners. Who cares about who we are playing - Ing-er-land! Ignorant idiot.

Peter Martin uses our combiner tags to produce a league table of the MPs most likely to resign over the expense scandal.

"Google gives UKIP 54 points, Conservative 41, Labour secures third place with 38 and just ahead of the Greens who score 32. Sadly, the British Nationalist Party, the extremists, manage to score 11 points. The post from the new European Public Policy blog from Google is likely to gain attention. No doubt a deliberate move from the search engine and a signal that it will be paying more attention to political developments in Europe."

"Oh but the figures were wrong: it was actually 473 million items and £12 billion [not the originally published 4.73 billion items downloaded each year, worth £120 billion] but the wrong figures were in the original executive summary, and the press release. They changed them quietly, after the errors were pointed out by a BBC journalist. I can find no public correction."

"The latest edition of the council paper has six pages of display ads, a property supplement and cover wrap, plus three pages of public notices and planning applications relating to Hammersmith & Fulham Council. It is the only ABC-audited council-run paper in London".

Print this out and post it on your office walls.

"Germany’s public broadcasters will drastically reduce the programing they put online in response to attacks from commercial channels and newspapers that the online offerings represent unfair competition. Markus Schachter, director of public broadcaster ZDF, said the channel will reduce its online offerings by 70 percent and cut the length of time that catch-up programing is available for streaming."

Is it just me who saw this headline in my RSS reader and assumed they meant Paul?

"If someone said that second and third generation immigrants should not be counted as properly British, you might be forgiven for assuming that person was a racist and possibly someone who would endorse BNP views. But if that person was the home affairs editor of a national newspaper, you'd have to wonder about what that newspaper really felt about home affairs and race in Britain."