links for 2011-07-04

Pictures of people on the Daily Mail website looking sad while holding, or standing close to, the thing that has made them feel sad.

The dangers of not hitting technical deadlines on event based products. ITV charging £2.99 for an app, but apologising that the full feature set is not available yet and will be coming soon...

Enjoyed this, and interesting to note that government's on both sides of the Atlantic may be waking up to the fact that good digital services come from good digital design processes.

Alec Muffet makes some interesting points in this response to the idea that their should be a limit to digital memory, but I do find the insistence on spelling it Grauniad rather like signing user comments EUSSR or referencing NuLiebore or calling Conservatives "Tory scum". Pointlessly distracting from the argument.

Response from our Readers' Editor to correspondence about our Sarah Palin email coverage

Fascinating insight into rethinking interface elements we take for granted.