Web Week

Lies, damned lies and photographs: In a week when political lying became a risky art form, a photo of Democratic candidate John Kerry and Jane Fonda at a 70s anti-Vietnam peace rally roared around the internet. The original photographer then complained the photo had been doctored. Another photograph, showing Kerry sitting behind Fonda at a rally, was deemed authentic. The phony photo first appeared on Vietnam Veterans Against John Kerry. The other one can be studied at an urban legends site.

A good example: The New Zealand Irish directory site deservedly gets a certificate of congratulations from the race relations commissioner for being a "model website for information about one of New Zealand's most active cultural communities".

Yahoo goes it alone: Yahoo has shed Google as its search engine and is going it alone. Early analysis suggests that Yahoo may challenge Google for popular searches, but not the obscure ones.

Pick the winners: More than 50,000 people have registered for the Virtual Super 12 game. It's free but you have to register at the site.

Private space: Organizers of a contest to achieve the first privately-financed manned spaceflight report that 27 teams have entered and they expect to award the US$10 million prize ($14.5 million) by the end of this year. Details at X Prize.

Flash grooving: Some visually moving boogie is going down at a new Heineken music site.