links for 2009-01-08

Regulation is everywhere. Let’s choose who benefits.

Metaphorically speaking, Google is killing the newspaper industry. (...) "The good news is we could purchase them. We have the cash. But I don't think our purchasing a newspaper would solve the business problems."

lists tweets about a blogposts, works with 5 popular url shorteners: tinyurl, bit.ly, is.gd, twurl and snipurl.

International recession could be a watershed moment which will shift the balance of power away from the West, says a director general of the Security Service.