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Since the Internet got a grip on life some things have been better, but many things are worse and some things are being taken away never to be returned. It's an unequal sort of progress.So here we are, facing changes to what has been part of our culture for hundreds of years.
This section is I-Programmer's reflections on why an e-zine isn't ever a replacement for a magazine and challenges some of our naive assumptions about the way the web works.
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The Internet is democratic, but has achieved this by removing authority over the control of information. Have editors, the gatekeepers of what is readable, been dumped in the trash can of time?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:59 |
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We all rely on search engines, believing that if information is on the Internet a search will discover it - but is it really so?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:59 |
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What could possibly replace the role of the popular magazine? Certainly not the e-zine. Perhaps social bookmarking is the answer?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:58 |
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Googlenomics - Experimental SEO |
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To make search optimisation work we need to know HOW it works and this calls for a new experimental science, Googlenomics
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:49 |
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Web advertising metrics are good for the advertiser but terrible for the web in general. Are advertisers killing the web in ways that are rarely mentioned?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:58 |
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Spam = Licence to the Lynch Mob |
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There is a hysterical lynch mob of Internet users gunning for anyone they deem to be "spamming". This is crazy and has downright dishonest motives and I'll explain why ...
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:58 |
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Content costs too much to support. Is this the end of the professional non-fiction writer?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:57 |
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OpenID - the Webmaster's tale |
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OpenID seems to be the single sign in method that is taking the web world by storm because it allows the user to have one user name and one password for all the websites they visit but what's the advantage from the web owner's point of view?
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:57 |
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Most people think that Kindle, Amazon’s own ebook reader, is just that – another ebook reader. But it is so much more. Unless something very stupid happens Kindle is set to change the face of publishing for reasons that few commentators seem to be shouting about.
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 February 2010 17:57 |
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