links for 2007-01-22

• ecoIron - All these whirring boxes.: Black Google Would Save 3,000 Megawatts a Year
  A little math to see how much energy could be saved by moving a high volume site to black.
  (tags: Google environment energy)
• Wikipedia:Public domain image resources - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  Great places to get images.
  (tags: Photography Wikipedia)
• Big Media’s Crush on Social Networking - New York Times
  "With a wink and a flirt, big media companies have developed a full-bore teenage crush on social networking businesses."
  (tags: SocialNetworking Media)
• aStore for Amazon Associates
  "aStore is a new Associates product that gives you the power to create a professional online store, in minutes and without the need for programming skills, that can be embedded within or linked to from your website."
  (tags: Amazon socialcommerce E-Commerce)
• Google plots e-books coup - Sunday Times - Times Online
  "Google and some of the world’s top publishers are working on plans that they hope could do for books what Apple’s iPod has done for music."
  (tags: Google ebooks Books)
• FT.com / In depth - Survey shows business has regained trust
  "Business is regaining the public’s trust across the world, rebuilding its reputation after recent scandals" (This refers to an annual Edelman study)
  (tags: Edelman trust trustbarometer research PR)
• John Battelle's Searchblog: NYT: No, No, NO!!!
  John's right. "User generated content" is a terrible phrase. Then again "conversational media" isn't perfect either since it still delineates that there are two camps - not one.
  (tags: Media Journalism)
• Flickr: The Bloggers' desks Pool
  Add a photo of your setup to the pool.
  (tags: Blogs Photography)