links for 2007-09-17

Charles Arthur accuses the Daily Mail of making up comments on its stories. If it's true, it's interesting; but what will be more interesting is whether anybody much cares.

"On any Gawker blog, you'll be able to specify which commenters are your favorites. From then on, any time these friends post a comment, a note will appear on your version of the site's home page, mixed right into the stream of stories posted by official

Gawker daily unique users. Peak of around 1.5 million daily uniques translates into something like 21 million monthly uniques.