links for 2007-03-05

“…Bloggers certainly have an edge over job seekers that do not publish one… hiring a blogger is a lower risk proposition because you have more information and a better idea of how they are going to perform.”

“James Stephenson, the editor of the BBC’s election night programme, and Peter Knowles, the controller of BBC parliamentary coverage, took part in meetings in Brussels late last month to discuss which techniques from British election nights would help boo

“U.S. News & World Report senior writer James Pethokoukis [contends] that a link on the top of the widely-read Drudge Report to a two-day old story about Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan’s recent speech in Hong Kong about the possibility of a recessio

“If the pundits are right, then now you know to be concerned whenever Drudge posts a negative word about the economy with a big siren. Worry not because there’s anything wrong with the economy, but because other people are reading. A lot of other people

“If he did cause last week’s Wall Street sell-off with a single headline, then it makes a darn good case study for someone working on theory about things like “informational cascades” and other indications of online groupthink.”

“This week consultation ends on proposals that will so severely curtail access to information that the [Freedom of Information Act] will be all but torn up. … It would be an act of folly to emasculate one of the initiatives of which New Labour can feel

Jon Welch: “Although it is far from perfect, the [Freedom of Information Act] has been an important tool in opening doors and discovering information that would otherwise have remained outside the public domain. It has helped to uphold the spirit of openn