links for 2011-01-13

"As always it was packed to standing room only but maintained it's friendly atmosphere"....great to hear

Fascinating take on this subject by Rob Walker. Now where did I put that scrap of paper with all my passwords written down...

Not sure I agree with much of this - certainly the Zipf curve would mean you'd expect the most popular keywords to be broadly similar on desktop and mobile - it will be the long tail that differs. And suggesting no to a specific mobile site shuts a lot of handsets out of accessing your content.

Tomáš Bella with some differing approaches to managing the volume and quality of online comments on news sites.

Ace article, and as pointed out to me by No Rock'n'Roll Fun, our users are gently inserting Wedding Present song titles into their comments...

"The re-rise of curation is partly about crowd curation -- not one people, but lots of people, whether consciously (lists, etc.) or unconsciously (tweets, etc) -- and partly about hand curation (JetSetter, etc.). We are going to increasingly see nichey services that sell curation as a primary feature"

"I spotted an interesting little Twitter conversation between the Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger and Salon writer Glenn Greenwald last night" over whether pieces in Comment Is Free count as 'official' Guardian opinion

Eva-Lotta Lamm's amazing sketchnotes from Tuesday night's LondonIA event