links for 2007-07-31

Ooooh. Compounding the pointlessness. Nice. (As long as Facebook doesn’t give you a feed of news items including things pulled in by the Twitter app, you’re not in danger of creating an infinite loop…)

“Some 70% of central government departments do not check that data has been wiped from IT equipment they are disposing of, exposing them to potential security breaches, a ­report released yesterday by the National Audit Office has found.”

A visualisation of the link structure of Wikipedia.

“I’d like to suggest that any journalist who reports an odds ratio as if it were a relative risk should be fired sent back to school.” (via — who else — Ben Goldacre)

The redtop Bild wants its portal, Bild.T-Online, to overtake market leader Spiegel Online as Germany’s leading news site. Handelsblatt reports Bild is planing online versions of its regional editions.

Phil Meyer … the Knight Chair at the University of North Carolina … will retire next year. The professorship will be expanded to embrace digital change and economic models for 21st century journalism.