9May
Brian Viner on the genius of Test Match Special
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Why geeks make the best lovers.
Martin Belam on the current state of British newspaper websites. He's viewing them through a lens of web 2.0, which he defines as RSS feeds, per-story comments, web-exclusive blogs, and direct plugging on a small number of serendipity-and-advertising sites. He doesn't ignore the basics (does it work? Is it readable?) and we're reminded that it's probably time that we reviewed some of the more serious week-end papers again, as we did in the first quarter of 2005.
Speaking of newspapers, we're impressed with the idea of Project Freesheet. Volunteers will patrol London on 13 June (a Wednesday), gathering discarded copies of the various free papers thrown around. Then they'll gather them into one big pile and take some pictures. A worthy cause.
Caroline Michel goes in search of Blair's zeitgeist author. Dude, it's obvious. Joanne Rowling. Started off as the underdog that the Brits love to champion, then she started to believe her own hype and got big and bloated and dangerously dark. And then announced that she was getting off the stage many years and many times, before the final act in summer 2007.
Love and Garbage has the definitive word on which papers should have been rejected in the Scottish count. We rather hope (and, given the state of the Scotsman group lately, suspect) that the whole "invalidate one half and the entire paper is lost" ruling is an urban myth. But we can't be sure, and that's damaging to our democracy. He said, sounding like a Scot.
M. Sarkozy is fucked - he has the backing of David Plunkett.
Sand castles of knowledge on a heavily-trafficked beach - Kyle Gann, aka Postclassic, is off Wikipedia. For good.
Those interested in this week's Eurovision Song Contest will probably wish to review the On Europe Live blog. These dedicated fans have been reporting live from the rehearsals since the start of the month.
St. John's has been looking good this week: 1 2.
And finally, Kitchentable reports on when a pigeon went shopping in Belfridge's.
