links for 2010-02-26

Sony Vaio’s Twitter account has generated over £1m in sales, the technology giant has revealed.

"As part of this work, I'm spending a bit of time studying ways in which BBC is fulfilling that stated mission – developing a deeper relationship with licence fee payers and strengthening its public accountability – through its social media activity, and in particular through its blogs. "

Clever use of Twitter – "Well, from this week and for every Friday until the end of March we’re turning Follow Friday into Free Flight Follow Friday, on behalf of low fares airline bmibaby!"

It was revealed today a script within the minister's homepage deliberately removes references to internet filtering from the list.

In the function that creates the list, or "tag cloud", there is a condition that if the words "ISP filtering" appear they should be skipped and not displayed.

The corporation’s web pages are to be halved, backed by a 25 per cent cut in staff numbers. Its £112 million budget will also be cut by 25 per cent. It is also pledging to include more links to newspaper articles to drive traffic to the websites of rival publishers.