links for 2007-05-10

“[E]lectronics hardware, often [becomes] obsolete quickly and containing toxic chemicals. Still, the amount of energy and environmental impact of one session on a computer pales in comparison to the impact of reading a printed newspaper or magazine.”

My Telegraph is live…

“Others – specificially, The Sun and Express – have opened ‘personal’ areas within their sites, but both are underwhelming. ‘My Telegraph’ has clearly been put together by people who ‘get it’.”

“NUJ representatives at Reuters have expressed their concerns to management over potential job losses among reporters” if the Thompson merger goes ahead…

“Google is now demonstrating just how vital Google News content really is to its multi-billion dollar Google.com search advertising AdWords franchise, big time.”

Neil McIntosh: “It’s all very exciting”.

Emily Bell: “Although our homepage changes affect the most high profile part of the site, it is just the latest phase in a raft of changes that will affect every part of Guardian Unlimited.” … The commenters aren’t happy, though.

“We think there’s all kinds of value there that’s really untapped,’’ [Google print ads director Tom] Phillips said of the print editions of newspapers. “We actually think it’s an underappreciated medium.”