When the student asks you to write their essay for them, part 2.

My map of LinkedIn contacts. I love this sort of thing.

Restaurant sues blogger for bad review. (Japanese restaurant suing Lebanese blogger in Kuwait.)

"The total literature of Iceland is under 50,000 books, which is easily scannable in 2 years by 12 people". This proposal is being put forward by the wonderfully named Þorsteinn Hallgrímsson. With a capital Þ.

"I think Twitter encourages us to coarsen our points of view, and I don’t think that’s good for conversation."

Damn. How will I do daily linkspams now?

oh god yes

On how social bookmarking works

Pete Birks makes a good point about how Eurostar's problems demonstrate that the public are increasingly gaining access to mass media as producers

Couldn't agree more!

Gareth explains (quite rightly) why Facebook "seriously sucks for serious discussion. Seriously."

Stephen Fry apologises to Poland and has interesting thoughts on Twitter and democracy

Glorious!

Too many web pages are just unreadable. This is a nice tool to fix that.