links for 2010-04-22

"Labour Party Walthamstow campaign worker James Butler said: "We take great care in ensuring that all our photos are taken by ourselves or are copyright free. It appears in this instance that one of our design team has made an innocent error which we regret". Oh I see, so if you steal the BPI's copyright intellectual property, you get your internet cut off by the Labour Party. But if you ARE the Labour Party - then blatant copyright theft is "an innocent error"

"I’ve been in charge of the communities for The Daily Mail and The Sun, and I’ve seen that yes, while there are comments written by people who fit the stereotype I wrote above, there are also other ones. They’re sensible, intelligent, and add value to a debate. Yes, comments can be written by assholes, but the majority of them aren’t. And you shouldn’t let your vision of this be clouded by the loud ones who write the most attention-seeking remarks, or insult everyone who interacts with a newspaper online."

"The Tory-supporting tabloids have given Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg a right going over on the eve of tonight's second leadership debate to be broadcast on SKY". Never in my lifetime have I seen the Conservative supporting press so panicked about 'the third party'. What an odd sight...

I find the decision to try and remove Downfall parodies unfathomable. Genuinely unfathomable.

"For something so simple – showing one photograph per day – it’s one of the most elegant and profound experiences I’ve had the pleasure of immersing myself in. The 'conversation' between the photographer and the viewer via each photograph is not just focused on the quality of the image or the technical accomplishment, it goes beyond that".