• Penguin Crime – a set on Flickr
• Penguin Books – a set on Flickr
• Penguin & Pelican Collection – a set on Flickr

• Betty's Utility Room: Knickerless – A daft take on the departure of "Conor McKnickerless" (or is it George Lamb?) as editor of NME. Very funny.
• Guardian: Blogging: the long and short of it "Writing a blog post is a lot harder than posting a status update, putting a funny link on someone's Wall, or tweeting."
• NUJ calls on Trinity Mirror to “come clean” about plans to axe up to eight titles in the Midlands and reduce the frequency of publication of the Birmingham Post
• BBC: Disabled woman sues clothes store – Woman with prosthetic limb allegedly falls foul of Abercrombie and Fitch's "Look Policy"
• BBC: Redevelopment for 'ghost village'
• Guardian:The Brangelina industry Interesting piece on tabloid/celeb mag journalism. "The truth can be kaleidoscopic."

• Guardian: No new stadium. A huge debt. Despite their promises, Hicks and Gillett have ‘done a Glazers’
  – Excellent piece by David Conn
• 5 Twitter Tools to Help You Manage Unfollowers
• The Worst, #1 – Magazine. Section on “saddest” celebrities from eastern Europe is marvellous.
• Media Monkey: Well I Warbler! Packham reveals Springwatch lark – Presenter slips Smiths song titles into TV banter
• YouTube: Cassetteboy vs The Bloody Apprentice – “I’m certainly better than you tossers!” (NB This will probably be removed quite quickly, so watch while you can. Plus it contains some rude words.)
• Guardian: You ask, they answer: Neal’s Yard Remedies – Neal’s Yard offered to answer some questions about their products on a blog, presumably under the impression it would be good PR. Unfortunately, lots of people asked some rather searching questions about the efficacy of homeopathic treatments and other rubbish sold by Neal’s Yard. No-one from Neal’s Yard answered. The end.
• Robin Brown: What your WordPress home page probably looks like…every day – Excellent parody of the typical WordPress home page.

• Nielsen Wire: Twitter Quitters Post Roadblock to Long-Term Growth – "Twitter has enjoyed a nice ride over the last few months, but it will not be able to sustain its meteoric rise without establishing a higher level of user loyalty. Frankly, if Oprah can’t accomplish that, I’m not sure who can."
• Journalism.co.uk: RBI to make 50 redundancies in UK
• Roy Greenslade: Express editor makes 'mistakes' at Commons committee – Greenslade launches methodical and entertaining rant against Peter Hill
• Silly Surgical Masks – Fun Face Masks to Fend Off Swine Flu Symptoms – Great fun for all the family, even when a medieval death plague strikes. "Not only will you be protecting yourself by wearing one of these funny face masks, you will also undoubtedly be putting a smile on someone’s face during this frightening outbreak of swine flu symptoms."
• BBC Press Office: The Thick Of It back for a new series on BBC Two

Also, keen readers might have spotted that I am now on Tumblr, which I’m using as a depository for my more esoteric interests in the fields of design, music and anything else that doesn’t fit here. Writing will be kept to a minimum. I’ve chosen Crwsksx as the name of my tumblelog. This vowel-free word came to me early one morning a couple of weeks ago and I thought I might as well make use of it. It also has the advantage of sounding deeply mysterious, which is always good.

• U.S. Airways Crash Rescue Picture: Citizen Journalism, Twitter At Work
• Designer credit cards
• Hughes plans for Kaka arrival as City close in on Milan playmaker – Meanwhile in the real world, Mark Hughes attempts to sign Craig Bellamy
• Rio police claim drug gangs cleared from City of God