links for 2007-07-18

A gossip-meets-betting website , popbet.com, is being co-launched by Popbitch and “cultural” betting website ChickenDinner.co.uk.

Bobbie Johnson: “Let’s be clear, the birth of blogging is hardly even an argument, let alone one worth that’s worth having. And reading Techcrunch is increasingly Just Not Worth It.”

Silicon Valley is booming again, but search and blogs are eating tech mags’ lunch. “It may be happening in tech first, but there’s no reason the same thing won’t happen, eventually, in every media niche”.

“As passengers on board Comair Flight 5637, a 50-seat regional jet, began feeling ill after being grounded on the tarmac for over four hours ,,, David Ollila … decided to take matters into his own hands and uncover what was really going on.”

“We will be appointing a teenager to write articles for our website … The minimum requirement for the youth editor will be to write one article a week … Payment for the work will be £50 per month.”

A pirated PDF of the Campbell diaries is floating around the interwebnetz. Guido: “Saves buying it and putting money in the f*****s pocket.”

An article in the FAZ suggests that David Montgomery may be closing, or at least making major cuts, at the online newspaper Netzeitung.

“Sports entities, flush with television cash, are exerting more control over access, and reporters say their ability to provide fans with critical, unfettered analysis has been hampered along the way.”

The US newspaper ABC will for the first time include online audience estimates this autumn.