From the BBC:
Google’s forthcoming ban on adverts for “academic paper-writing services and the sale of pre-written essays, theses, and dissertations” means that essay websites join a blacklist of “unacceptable content” including adverts for weapons, prostitution, drugs, tobacco, fake documents and “miracle cures”.
The move has been applauded by universities which have struggled with the [...]
After a weekend of rumors about this, it turns out that CBS has really acquired the financial podcast Wallstrip. I have to admit that I had never heard about this show before these rumors started flying a few days ago.
The general consensus seems that CBS was mostly interested in getting the talent (I hear rumors [...]
As somebody who travels quite frequently, this article in the New York Times makes me anything but happy:
Meanwhile, nearly every major carrier has done away with free onboard
meals in coach on domestic flights, and has instead begun to charge for
individual food and drink items, often at hotel minibar prices. Earlier
this year, American Airlines, for example, [...]
Following the lead of some much more high-profile bloggers, I took some time off from blogging.
I spend a very interesting weekend at the International Congress on Medieval Studies and then did some traveling last week (even if it sounds like a Renaissance Fair, this is the largest conference on anything medieval in the world [...]
We are a feeble bunch. Just show us enough banner ads and we will have positive feelings towards your product.
At least, that is what a recent article in the Journal of Consumer Research seems to point out. The article is behind a paywall, but Ars Technica has a good summary:
So, the psychologists have a better [...]
The rumor today is that Google is about to acquire Feedburner. TechMeme is going pretty wild with the idea. Valleywag says it’s going to be a $100m deal.
It seems like a good plan to me. Google, the advertising company that it is, kills two birds with one strike here. It gets the RSS metrics that [...]
Jason Calacanis is taking a month off – I am only taking a few days off to go to Kalamazoo, Mi for the International Congress on Medieval Studies.
Sounds stuffy – but there is basically a never ending supply of free booze after 5pm. And don’t think this is a renaissance fair – this is [...]
Here is a video of Conan O’ Brian paying a visit to the Intel campus in Santa Clara. This video is seeing some heavy rotation on Intel campuses worldwide right now, judging from the fact that I have by now received a link to it from at least four different people at Intel (and it [...]
This might be the first positive thing I can say about Comcast. According to TechCrunch, Comcast just made a deal with Zimbra, the web email and collaboration suite that recently became one of the first Ajax suites that offer on and offline access to its customers.
In addition to this, Zimbra is going to team up [...]
Technorati, everybody’s favorite blog search engine, has changed some of its layout and wording today. What used to be “x number of blogs link here” is now called authority.
On Fri. May 4th, we updated Technorati.com to include the Technorati Authority for blogs listed on the Blog page and in search results. This update changed the [...]
Scoble yesterday announced that he won’t be talking at PostieCon.
So, PostieCon (a conference sponsored by PayPerPost) was among the most controversial things I’ve ever done. People really hated that I was speaking there. I got constant crap from my friends and foes alike because of my decision to speak there.
But, it turned out they didn’t [...]
If you still can’t get enough of the Digg revolt over the HD-DVD code, Jason Calacanis has an interview with Jay Adelson and Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fred von Lohmann.
Good listening.
Just one question: How come Jay Adelson is now doing all the PR work for Digg instead of Kevin Rose? He used to be the quiet [...]
While the blogosphere is still buzzing with news about a possible Yahoo/Microsoft merger, the reality is that both companies have long stopped talking to each other and decided to move on seperately.
Marketwatch broke the news:
Talks between Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc. over a possible combination are no longer active, according to a media report late [...]
The New York Times features an interesting article today on schools that have abandoned their one-laptop-per-student programs.
“After seven years, there was literally no evidence it had any impact on student achievement — none,” said Mark Lawson, the school board president here in Liverpool, one of the first districts in New York State to experiment with [...]
