links for 2008-08-18

Google the Publisher not quite there yet: "the larger issue is what Knol is about. it's less about "authorship" and "credentials," to my mind, than self-advertising, self-promotion, and single-minded and narrow-minded points of view".

The blog is dead; long live the lifestream.

"Text messaging remains the most widely used data application in the UK".

For the past few weeks I have been experimenting with different search engines (partly inspired by the publicity surrounding the launch of Cuil). This one combines relevant results with a seriously cool interface.