links for 2008-07-26

The Guard­ian had a 3 million-visit uplift com­pared to May so, at between 1p and 2p per click by buy­ing search terms from Google, you have to won­der whether the com­pany spent some­where north of £30,000 to regain its position.

Exas­per­ated Mad­rid res­id­ents who filmed pros­ti­tutes nego­ti­at­ing with their cli­ents out­side their homes and broad­cast them on You­Tube have been fined for infringing the Span­ish data pro­tec­tion Act.

There are three times as many pupils tak­ing psy­cho­logy A-level as eco­nom­ics and almost twice as many tak­ing A-level media stud­ies. Sport and phys­ical exer­cise and the express­ive arts are now big­ger sub­jects at A-level than economics.

[W]e’re talk­ing about a micro-business, no threat to the $330 mil­lion in estim­ated profits CNBC took in last year. The world just isn’t clam­or­ing for another busi­ness news chan­nel, and cable oper­at­ors know it.

CEO Jim Buck­mas­ter shared some June num­bers that will make a news­pa­per pub­lisher weep: hous­ing ads are up 85% y/y, with rental ads up 120% and real estate up 70%.

Video from Hong Kong tele­vi­sion sta­tions showed Beijing police officers throw­ing one journ­al­ist to the ground and thrust­ing him by the neck…officers pulled cam­era­men from lad­ders as they sought to record chaotic scenes sur­round­ing Olympic ticket sales.

The head­line spins. The story? “Fox Busi­ness is aver­aging about 8,000 in busi­ness day and 20,000 in prime time…FBN is still far behind mar­ket leader CNBC. The NBCU chan­nel aver­ages 284,000 view­ers dur­ing the day and 191,000 in prime time.”