links for 2011-09-01

"So, in my new berth, I’ll be on the ITV News live stream, using Twitter to break stories, share observations and hear from viewers. I know I can’t make the 67,000 followers all stay or the number grow because it’s up to them to choose. But whatever the subject, using Twitter is now part of what journalists do and what our readers and viewers expect. It’s a live place for fast and open conversation at a time when there is plenty to discuss."

Not my best bit of prose ever - our Guardian UX drop-in made it into Private Eye's Birtspeak 2.0 [scan via @patlockley]

"Not only does the archaic and stereotypical shirt suggest that being pretty and smart are not synonymous, but heavy-duty thinking should be left up to the boys. Since, you know, thinking is a boys' game and looking good is girls' territory right?"

Slightly mortified that my contribution to the Guardian Books blog "Summer Readings" series was the only one to generate no comments at all. Not even my mum!

"A designer who does not write markup and css is not designing for the web, but drawing pictures."

"You've probably seen the viral video of the AI bots arguing with each other. Almost the first things the bots start to talk about is God and who made them. Next they begin to accuse each other of lying. The conversation was so strangely humanish that I had to interview the creators to see what was going on."

"Over the course of about three years, the Cameron brothers set up a service to provide movie-like soundtracks for digital books" (via @carmitstead)