links for 2009-02-16

• Benrik Pitch: Apology for the day | Media | The Guardian | Cartoon
  "Radio 4's Thought for the day" slot might be temporarily used for this purpose"
• Laskarina calls it a day | Greece – Times Online
  Had a brilliant holiday with them few years back. Sad to see them close. Boss says "All these internet sales are depressing. The cheapness of it. They have no idea what they’re selling. They have no idea if there is building work near your hotel. It’s the new bucket shop. These dot-com people are selling rubbish. When good companies say ‘we’ve had enough’, it is terrible for the travel industry. "
  (tags: laskarina holiday greece internet)
• Radio 4 has a fifth of it's output made up of repeats | Mail Online
  Radio 4 blog is Daily Mailed. Didn't take long. Entire blog post is lifted and quotes from users comments. Unsurprisingly users aren't credited and no link back to the blog.
  (tags: bbc radio4 blog dailymail damazer)
• Italy vs Ireland rugby match twitter analysis – patrickphelan.ie
  brilliant 10 min by 10 min tag clouds documenting the ireland v italy tag rugby match (via aarons)
  (tags: twitter rugby tag irelandvsitaly tagclouds)