links for 2006-08-17

• PR blogger suspended by Orange
  Inigo Wilson, community affairs manager for mobile phone company Orange, has written a lengthy racist article on ConservativeHome, one of the UK’s top political blogs.
• The Iranian president’s blog and devious intent
  Several Israeli bloggers, including Yael K.’s Step By Step, report that if you access the Ahmadenijad blog from an Israeli IP address the site sends you a little gift, a cyberattack in the form of a virus or trojan.
• Why tech needs to talk sense…
  There is a gap opening. Far more dangerous than the rich / poor divide, more insipid even than the cultural iron curtain that is the Watford gap service station, this chasm is the divide between Geeks and Luddites.
• Microsoft keeps on blogging
  Microsoft has launched a free blog editor that is a desktop tool rather than a web based design editor.
• Banks should adopt Web 2.0 technologies, says analyst
  Financial services firms should adopt Web 2.0-based applications to improve services to customers and promote cross-enterprise collaboration, says analyst Gartner.