links for 2007-04-04

Mindy McAdams: “Is it just another “useless Web app clogging up the hipsters’ sidebars”? …
I find it too slow to tolerate — but if you must, connect.”

Peru’s El Comercio has a feature on its web site allowing users to use a scroller to flip through the news and photos in previous hours.

Lloyd Shepherd: “We’ve relaunched Yahoo! News in the UK. It went live this morning … It’s an enormous leap forward for us for lots of reasons, although it might not look it at first.”

“It’s been confirmed by Google. There is indeed a python on the loose at the company’s New York City office.” And it’s not April Fool’s day anymore.

A first look at the new book from Tim Porter and Michele McLellan about the need for American newspaper journalists to change.

Josh Wolf was freed after 7 1/2 months after publishing the video footage that prosecutors had sought.