Great little article about how the flickr team manage thier worldwide online community. "The job always comes down to finding the fulcrum in the teeter-totter, the balance that benefits both the individual and the community," [link]
Ex collegue of mine Matt Cashmore is about to blog motorbiking to Russia for charity, some of which he'll be doing as audio by phone – here's his handy guide to doing just that (the phone thing, not the motorbiking): "Sound simple doesn’t it. Just find a way of leaving a message on something like skype, then get it to encode your audio, upload it to the server and generate the XML." [link]
An old PA football story somehow finds itself published as new news on This is Croydon – to the ire of commenters. The very funny ire. Read the comments from the bottom-up to get it chronologically. [link]
Firefox extension that hides comments on YouTube by grammar, spelling and punctuation. It's a very good way of filtering the dreadful and purile comments that litter YouTube. [link]
Nice piece about the BBC's "research mansion", doomed to closure and the dispersal of some incredibly talented people. [link]
These are my links for 26th February through 28th February: