Never mind the quality, feel the speed! Headline Alert, which is distributed by e-mail, tracked how quickly sites posted the story about lay-offs at what used to be Old Labour's computer company, ICL. The newsletter has the order like this:
09.50 Femail.co.uk 12.06 Headline Alert 12.14 Ananova (PA) 12.24 The Register 12.30 ThisisLondon 13.00 Guardian Unlimited 14.17 Bloomberg 14.51 ZDnet.co.uk 15.18 BBC Online 15.25 Silicon.com 16.43 VNUnet.com 17.03 AFXpress