links for 2010-10-06

"Get an article up quickly, with the bare facts that your know are true, sure. Don't stuff it with facts you haven't checked out - it's the internet. You can update stories. You don't have to do it all before you press publish. Add the extra stuff as it's confirmed."

Ben on wrangles over Libyan domain names, which we mostly know from URL shorteners.

"The BBC spends £1.6m a year on digital marketing, according to an FOI request". Interesting to see my old job from waaaaaaaay back 'reflecting SEO principles in the design of our web pages' would now be subject to FOI requests about marketing.

As a columnist calls coverage of one of the X-Factor contestants 'irresponsible and cynical', the paper she works for files 8 stories about her..."Her trip to get some money from a cash machine was so important that the Mail appears to have bought photos from four different agencies to illustrate their non-story."

I'm going to this tonight in one of my more eclectic moments. It has moogs and theramins and *stuff*

How hard would it have been to make an 'add to iCal etc' button on this page eh? A classic example of 'trapped data'.