links for 2007-12-31

"It's no longer unusual for blogs with just a couple thousand daily readers to earn nearly as many dollars a month". Essentially an AP puff piece for Google AdSense it seems

"Notice the pink outlines around the links indicating the nofollow tag, that’s because Arrington of TechCrunch is scared of Google, allowing Google to dictate how they do business". Caves in Like a School Girl? Graywolf never went to school in East London!

"In legal documents in its federal case against Howell, a man who kept a collection of 2,000 music recordings on his PC, the industry maintains that it is illegal for someone who has legally purchased a CD to transfer that music into his computer."

I guess I'm missing the point, but didn't that list just become longer and full of more stuff I wasn't wanting when I started typing in a web address?

"it's immediately apparent how un-viral the videos are. No 'send to a friend' or 'forward'. You can't embed it on your blog or profile. Users are asked to keep coming back to arnoldworldwide.com, and find 'Arnold On' under 'Our Agency' in the nav."

"This covers lithium metal batteries with up to 2g of Li, and lithium-ion batteries with 'Li equivalent content 'over 8g but below 25g". It seems a Serbian coach from Belgrade to Mostar was not the most confusing method of travel devised by man after all.

Is there no problem that Web 2.0 and faceted metadata can't solve? [Note to *my* parents - this has been bookmarked because it was on TechCrunch, not because I was looking for baby names ;-) ]

The sunset in E17 looks more exciting than the sunset in Χανια at the moment. Fantastic set of photographs, but how frightfully annoying ;-)

"Give them every opportunity to tell you your idea sucks. They are the experts on the Web. Tell them the problem you want solved, not how to solve it". Advice that probably applies to the specialist areas of most businesses actually.

Yes, I'm quite sure that all the people affected are looking at relocating to a new part of the country, finding new jobs for partners, new schools for kids and being thrown off the London property ladder as a mouth-watering money-making 'bonanza'.