links for 2011-08-12

What remains – those dry court reports that fill the space between adverts in most local newspapers – could in theory be of use to those who want to ask bigger questions than “Which one of my neighbours has been in trouble?”

But it is being published online in a format which makes it far from easy for anyone to interrogate – including newspapers’ own journalists.

I don’t want a third platform unless it can be integrated with one and two. Fortunately, through the addition of one of a number of Chrome extensions – apps that you can choose to add to your account, and which alter the way Google+ operates – it is possible to forward what you do on Google+ to other platforms. Using them requires you to use the Google Chrome browser.