links for 2007-01-29

• Google and China and Evilness
  Reminds me of Nick Carr's post on googlebombs. They both give Google a hard time for making business vs don't-be-evil decisions.
  (tags: google evilness)
• O'Reilly Radar > wefeelfine.org -- Addictive Visualization of Collective Sentiment
  Cool app searches for "I feel x" phrases on blogs and aggregates data into nifty visualizations. Can even segment by age/gender/location/weather.
  (tags: statisticalmodeling visualization)
• Ecotivity: - Hypocrisy of the media towards the environment
  Reader complaint about inconsistency btwn The Independent's climate-conscious articles and eco-unfriendly sales promo. Salesforce swag got similar reaction from Business 2.0's Green Wombat blog.
  (tags: noteasybeinggreen)
• Jon Udell: Justifying the feel-good labels
  "Imagine a future version of Amazon where the price for each product is reported as dollars, and also as carbon-adjusted dollars." Sounded unlikely last November, but now Tesco plans to do it...
  (tags: greening)
• 'I Know Marketing' - Forbes.com Marc Benioff Interview
  "How Salesforce.com does PR is changing... We realized that companies had gone entirely digital with media kits, so we decided to do the opposite. Everyone loves chocolate, so we mailed out chocolate--and the good stuff, not junk."
  (tags: Salesforce)
• Feedbach -: Peering at the edge and the role of the P2P
  "Last mile service providers don't connect with one another. This is stupid on their part!" (Because you only have P2P access to fellow customers of same connectivity provider.)
  (tags: CDN P2P)