links for 2009-08-27

"External linking came up. We'd already taken steps to expand the ways in which BBC Online links to other websites and click throughs have been running at 10 -12million per month."

"Just found out my case against the cops that beat me for taking pictures of them during a peaceful demo was thrown out of court due to insufficient evidence. Obviously, five eye witnesses, video, photographs and a 10 page medical report are not enough". Now, why doesn't that surprise me somehow...

"I’d argue that this invisibility of individual councillors actually contributes to the way that political parties dominate local politics at the expense of strong individual representatives. Promoting a use of social media at a local authority-wide level could be a good laugh – something that councillors would enjoy."

Includes: "Myth #6: If you Have Great Search, You Don’t Need Great Information Architecture Or, 'If you have great information architecture, you don’t need great search.' After years of battling it out, the best practice seems to be to always offer BOTH a well-fitting structured information space, and also great search."

"Debris is flying in a busy street as the canopy of the former EMD building is pulled down. Repair work has started on the Hoe Street dilapidated building's canopy, parts of which have collapsed into the street on two occasions in recent weeks."

Hell has surely frozen over - "Janet Fielding will be back as Tegan Jovanka for three stories that include Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor, Sarah Sutton as Nyssa and Mark Strickson as Vislor Turlough".