Archive for May, 2007

Google news strikes hidden deal with UK news groups, begs the question: What’s a headline-plus-blurb worth?

Monday, May 21st, 2007

INTERNET SEARCH engine Google is understood to have reached deals with several large UK news groups over carrying their content on Google News.
The deals are reputedly being kept strictly secret for fear that Google will end up having to pay for similar licences with all of the 4500 news services it carries on its news […]

A quote worth sending to the folk in your online ad department

Thursday, May 10th, 2007

Tacoda CEO Dave Morgan has a quality point in his post about measuring online actions (”Metrics that Matter“):
Take the “click-through,” for example. Everyone in online advertising, particularly in branded display advertising, knows that it is a stupid metric to base campaigns and budgets and success on. As deep tracking in online advertising has gotten more […]

I know you know someone who still hunt and pecks at the keyboard.

Wednesday, May 9th, 2007

And this link is for that person: an index of typing lesson sources. Help them help themselves and send them there today. (via Stephen Downes)

April’s most popular links: making local work, late-night dumps, innovation quick, slow descents, and daily papers vs. weeklies

Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

These are the links from my reading list that got the most clicks in April (along with any notes I wrote on the link, or sometimes a quote from the linked article):

Turns out it’s tough to make local work on the Web: “Whoever can get this thing right—there’s a lot of money there,” says Josh […]

Online poll ideas for the spring season

Monday, May 7th, 2007

Hi spring. It’s a new season, and heck if that doesn’t open the doors to a new stable of online poll ideas. This page uses Creative Commons license 123, which means “steal these polls.”
Spring: At the beginning

How many times have you been to the park this month? ( I’m allergic to parks / 0 / […]

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