If you search Google for certain sites which are themselves searchable, you’ll get an inline search box right in your Google results.

So, searching for “wikipedia” gives you:

It works for Urban Dictionary too..

Using the search box doesn’t take you directly to the results, but to another Google page with an appropriate “site:” keyword added, so Google still get their advert imprints.

Nice.

This is an example of something I have often found to be a problem on many social websites (for example, online forums). The owners and operators of the website should not be responsible, legally or morally, for the conduct of its users. A social platform provides a canvas upon which people can express themselves. Asking the company behind the social platform to moderate the user-generated content is like holding a notepad manufacturer responsible for offensive messages written on its paper, or a brick manufacturer responsible for unpleasant graffiti daubed upon walls constructed from its products.

Perhaps Twitter could (and should) have been more clear in their TOS, but in the end the responsibility for moderating the content of a social network should lie with the participants in that network, not the creators. Once censorship begins to creep in, all is lost. It’s impossible to draw lines between acceptable and unacceptable content, and it’s impossible to please everyone.

As Twitter employee Jason Goldman states on the support thread for this issue:

What we believe is that Twitter is a recipient-driven utility; you choose what content appears in your timeline. We offer tools like block so that users can distance themselves from others with whom they have disputes or disagreements.

So if someone offends you on Twitter, you know where to click:

Sigh.

The first entry is an in-depth review and comment on the SmartPhone market, and potential iPhone rivals. Stephen is a complete gadget-freak (he says he has never seen a SmartPhone he hasn’t bought) and Apple enthusiast (he claims to have bought the second Macintosh ever sold in the UK – the first went to the late, great Douglas Adams). He’s also a great writer, and this blog should be an interesting read.

Here’s Stephen with his iPhone: