links for 2007-01-05

Daniel Finkelstein “Press Gazette records that only 25 people complained to Ofcom about the television footage of Saddam’s execution, while 1,000 complained about the eviction procedure on Big Brother.”

“News of the World online editor Bill Akass has been promoted to assistant editor (digital). … He will be responsible for the paper’s online and mobile content.”

A Brazilian court ordered the popular video sharing service YouTube … to be shut down until it removes a sex video of model Daniela Cicarelli, ex-wife of Ronaldo, from the site.

Juan Antonio Giner reads the British quality papers — and isn’t impressed. Buy the Economist instead, he says.

How can the frequent, small fluctuations in Amazon’s prices be explained? Has Amazon started using dynamic pricing?

Robert Niles: “Let’s quit arguing the merits of ‘mainstream’ versus ‘citizen’ journalism and instead work together on ‘better’ journalism.”

Chris Anderson looks at Guy Kawasaki’s first year of blogging to remind us that he never said being in the Long Tail would make you rich. Kawasaki made $3,350 from 2,4436,117 pageviews. CPM: $1.39.

Scott Karp says Daylife seems to be lacking “context to understand the relative importance of these stories, no commentary to put them in perspective”.

Hitachi “said on Thursday that it will come out with a 3.5-inch-diameter 1 terabyte drive for desktops in the first quarter”