links for 2010-08-05

"The paper countered that Street-Porter, who was clearly not projecting herself as a medical expert, was entitled to her personal opinion on the subject. It also pointed out that it had published a letter in response to the piece a few days after it appeared. That letter can be found here on the free library website, though I can't locate it on the Mail's website. However, once the PCC decided to investigate the complaint, the Mail agreed to run a letter from Rethink's chief executive, Paul Jenkins, and the complaint was resolved on this basis. Not can I find that on the Mail website". The key thing for me is that it appears there was NO RESOLUTION AT ALL of this complaint online. The letters that gave 'balance' to the piece are not available at the same URL or linked to from the same URL. And yet Mr Dacre says we should stop criticising the PCC because it is working fine...

This is sad, funny, and lovely at the same time.

Tomorrow is the last day for early bird discounts for those intending to come to Paris in September for the impressive line-up of speakers at EuroIA

An interesting nugget pulled out from the recent BBC News redesign. Daniel Bennett notes: "The terminology further reinforces the idea that while BBC journalists may not express personal views they are allowed to offer expert views - i.e. those that are 'rooted in evidence'".

"In the first of his two appearances this season (see Prom 41) Valery Gergiev conducts the World Orchestra for Peace performing two works by Mahler". My first ever trip to the Proms is tonight.

Two brilliant lines in this "If Thomas and I were bigwigs at a multinational firm with entire departments devoted to preventing anything from getting accomplished, that disagreement might have been settled by a great deal of harumphing. However, we’re engineers, so we made a wager" and "I can't possibly stress enough how valuable it is to have your A/B tests require only a single line of code. You’ll test more frequently, you’ll test more diligently, and you’ll discover more valuable things about your business."