links for 2007-02-19

A study by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory reveals that the electricity used by server computers doubled between 2000 and 2005 to 1.2% of all US power consumption. This excludes Google’s server-farms!

“… Persistent requesters will have their queries severely limited. And who are these requesters? Why, mostly MPs and media outlets. Anyone, in other words, who sees it as their role to hold the Government to account. “

“Larry King admitted Tuesday he’s never searched the Internet.”

Steven Rattner: “Instead of having billionaire moguls as proprietors, we could try to turn them into philanthropists who found nonprofit organizations to buy and operate their local papers.”

Paul Staines, aka Guido Fawkes, has been directed to provide documents regarding the Smith Institute to the Charity Commission. He faces a contempt charge if he does not comply.

John Naughton on TechBubble 2.0: “the new web services require less upfront investment than the original dotcoms. What is YouTube, after all, other than some smart software for converting every uploaded video clip into a Flash movie, plus server capacity

Apparently “brand”, “podcast”, “revenue” and “eyeballs” are part of the “modern geek” jargon being used at the Telegraph these days. It’s all very, very strange.

Adrian Monck for the BBC College of Journalism: “I have a few banal observations to pass on that I will be repackaging as Monck’s Maxims® of video news online.”

There is some very strange CSS in that new Times Online web site — no, not just “color:#B6E600;”.

Report on Schibsted “an Oslo-based newspaper publisher that does things differently on the Internet — making lots of money, for starters.”

“Digital accounts for “over 10 per cent” of FHM’s revenues and growing, but the problem is that advertising yields are lower: a print publication can charge £20 per thousand readers; online that drops sharply.”

Former Sunday Times reporter Judith O’Reilly has landed a £70,000 book deal based on her blog, Wife in the North. But get this: She had only been blogging for since November.

“The big losers were the paper versions of the country’s two biggest tabloids, VG and Dagbladet, and most Sunday newspapers. … However, both VG and Dagbladet turn over big profits online, and Dagbladet’s online readership surpasses its print readership”

“Of course it’s more exciting to say ‘unknown blogger breaks into the traditional media’ than ‘a friend of ours who spent years as a professional writer with one of the world’s largest media conglomerates just a got a book deal’.”

Jemima Kiss: “Peter Zollman, founder of US research specialists Classified Intelligence, told me that it is almost impossible to quantify the impact of Craigslist on the newspaper advertising market.”