Links 25/1/06
The Beast – 50 most loathsome Americans, 2005 edition Secret life of Matisse wins Whitbread prize
Month: January 2006
More censorship news…
BBC NEWS | World | Middle East | Iran blocks BBC Persian website The Iranian authorities have started to block the BBC’s Persian language internet site, for the first time. The BBC says the level of traffic to the site from within Iran has dropped sharply over the last three days. No official explanation has … Keep reading
Google censors itself for China
BBC NEWS | Technology | Google censors itself for China This is a very disturbing news story indeed, and is starting to convince me that maybe MJR is right… The company is setting up a new site – Google.cn – which it will censor itself to satisfy Beijing’s hardline rulers. Google argued it would be … Keep reading
Performancing’s Blog Improvements
Performancing: Quick and Easy Blog Improvements Put up a “Post not found” error 404 page – if someone tries to visit a broken link on your blog does the visitor get a nice friendly message or “error 404 file not found”? Even better for you, do you provide handy links to your top content, a … Keep reading
The Global Id
Great article on Google by John Lanchester in the London Review of Books: Google is the only multi-billion-dollar company in the world that is also a spelling mistake. Back in the palaeolithic era (that’s the palaeolithic era in the internet sense, i.e. autumn 1997) its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were graduate computer science … Keep reading