I’m not deliberately picking up on others’ mistakes, although from yesterday’s and today’s posts you might think so. But a brief, rapidly-corrected blunder by the folks at timesonline yesterday is worthy of comment.

The Star Wars Kid is where it’s at this week. Even the broadsheets are talking about him. The Times, for example, in its commentary yesterday on the Viral Factory’s research into viral videos, lists the top ten clips as downloaded by the rest of us.

All fine if you’re reading the print version. And, as you’d expect, the online version of the article carries links to each of the Top 10 clips mentioned.

Including Kylie Minogue’s Agent Provocateur ad, and something called One Night in Paris.

The Times figured this out pretty quick – by lunchtime yesterday the two links in question had disappeared. But for a couple of hours yesterday afternoon, one of the bastions of the British press was linking directly to some pretty saucy stuff.

The other eight links in the article remain – including the not altogether un-risqué Trojan Games … Nice to see someone at the our nation’s newspaper of record has a sense of humour.

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