links for 2007-07-05

“May saw the first monthly drop in traffic for MySpace since June 2006 and only the second drop since November 2005, according to web research company Nielsen//NetRatings”

“Johnston got very animated as he explained his ‘lucky break’: getting a radio. About twenty days in, he was given a radio to listen to: which he promptly tuned in to the BBC World Service. From there, he heard all those messages of goodwill from his

“Contempt of court action will be taken later this year against [the Mail on Sunday] over a story it ran [in February]. … Editor Christopher Williams and Allan Caldwell, the freelance reporter who wrote the story, also face charges.”

“ITV will have a strong case for stopping its regional news coverage unless it gets some form of public funding once the analogue signal is switched off, according to new research by media regulator Ofcom.”

“[E]lectronic data is proving far more ephemeral than paper: we now produce and access far more information, but it is harder to keep intact. It is not just historians who are worried. “