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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.
Join in the debate email your comments to: The Stone Tapes
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Google Needs a New Search Algorithm |
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Google Search is important for every web publisher. It drives traffic to a site like no other entity on the web. It may have been reduced in importance by social media, but it is still the only (mostly) no-effort way of getting browsers to view your pages. You simply post the page, wait for it to be crawled by Google, and sit back and expect visitors.
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Last Updated on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 18:40 |
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Now that Google has stopped ranking websites - yes page rank is long dead - there is a real need for some public auditing and ranking.
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Last Updated on Friday, 21 October 2011 19:25 |
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Rationality, advertising and profit |
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If this article isn't being brought to you by sponsors, who is it that is picking up the tab? Why turning off adverts is aggressive action.
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Last Updated on Friday, 08 April 2011 18:01 |
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The Daily - how will it change epublishing? |
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The Daily, Murdoch's newspaper created specifically for the iPad. was finally launched this week. Is it going to have an impact - or is it the wrong model anyway?
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Last Updated on Monday, 07 February 2011 08:22 |
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A web site for $5 a month? |
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Stone Tapes continues to challenge some of our naive assumptions about the way the Web works.
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Last Updated on Tuesday, 01 February 2011 13:44 |
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Flattr me - Micropayments yet again |
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Flattr is a new attempt to encourage end users to pay a minimum amount for the web content that they take for granted. Can it possibly work?
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Last Updated on Friday, 13 August 2010 12:52 |
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Publishers bypassed by Kindle ebooks |
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Animosity between authors and publishers over ebooks has finally spilled over into a self publishing venture that cuts out the publisher. Is this the first shot in the revolution?
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Last Updated on Saturday, 24 July 2010 13:39 |
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The ease of ebook publishing has led to a proliferation of second rate content, including material taken directly from, or better suited to, blogs
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Last Updated on Thursday, 08 April 2010 08:11 |
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Truth, beauty and sock puppets |
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How can you trust recommendations you read on the web? We expose the sock puppets!
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Last Updated on Thursday, 11 March 2010 10:42 |
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