Interesting Links for 28-01-2012

[andrewducker]

• UK sight-loss charity sues airline for failing to fix their non-compliant website
  (tags: sight web blindness )
• Why Google is moving from showing links to providing answers
  (tags: google web search )
• Tom Watson reacts sensibly and graciously to having his intern play with his Twitter account when he was away.
  (tags: uk TomWatson twitter )

Comments

[firecat]

I switched to http://duckduckgo.com as my search engine a while ago. I use Google images sometimes and Google maps a lot, but don't do general searches there.

[cartesiandaemon]

"25 Things I Learned From Opening a Bookstore"

ROFL.

"Tom Watson reacts sensibly and graciously to having his intern play with his Twitter account when he was away."

Huh. What amazes me, is that other than the initial gaffs, everyone seems to have reacted sensibly and proportionately. When I googled for the story, it seemed the whole internet was saying "LOL. That was kind of dumb, I was somewhat amused, but ultimately no big deal, don't overreact." and the MP said "You're right, I've already taken care of it, please stop going on about it now." Where is the miscommunication? Where is the vitriol? Are we going to get more news headlines saying "massive twit-storm advocates measured and proportionate response, MP says 'yes, that's what I thought'"? :)

[skreidle]

What's the background to the intern/twitter bit?

[andrewducker]

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tomchiversscience/100132832/tom-watson-mp-an-intern-and-a-twitter-rape-joke/

[skreidle]

Ahh.