tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70360202024-01-31T07:27:20.634+00:00Peter Williams logs some ideas that might enhance the web presence of the Association for Roman Archaeology. Readers are always encouraged to contribute their own creativity, comment, and critique. modusoperandihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15381528599426118631noreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7036020.post-1100930098529653522004-11-20T05:54:00.000+00:002004-11-20T05:54:58.530+00:00

CNN.com - Google engineers new scholarly search - Nov 19, 2004: "Google Inc., the leader in online search engines, is setting out to make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the Web. The company's new service, unveiled late Wednesday, draws upon newly developed algorithms to list the academic research that appears to be most relevant to a search request. Mountain View-based Google

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Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Archaeologists fear 'looters' charter': "Archaeologists fear 'looters' charter' John Hooper in Rome Tuesday November 9, 2004 The Guardian Archaeologists were yesterday aghast over a plan by MPs loyal to Silvio Berlusconi to legalise the private ownership of archaeological treasures in Italy. One called the measure a 'looters' charter'. "

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PCA - Sites - Highlights - Tabard Square Inscription This has been interpreted by one of the leading Latin epigraphic scholars Dr Mark Hassall, of the Institute of Archaeology in London as meaning: To the spirits of the emperors (and) the god Mars Camulos, Tiberinius Celerianus, ranking moritex of the (traders) of London, set this up. The inscription appears to have been set up by the trader

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Evening Star: "Table made from 2,000 year old wood October 24, 2004 01:15 SOME people might think this table looks heavenly - and they would have plenty of reason for thinking so. For the oak from which it is built was growing near the Thames when Jesus walked the Earth. Made from Roman oak more than 2,000 years old, this table is believed to be one of the country's most prized pieces of

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Fool.com: Google Ogles Your Hard Drive Now all archaeologists can have a "dream machine" PC on which files and emails just do not get lost or misplaced? By Rich Duprey October 18, 2004 The company that revolutionized the search of the Internet has now revolutionized searching your hard drive. Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) new Desktop Search utility is an incredibly powerful program that will keep track

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BLOG-EFL: Blogging with ERASMUS students Graham reports good blog ideas here re networking.

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TotalVideoGames.com Rome: Total War Review: Rome: Total War: "As you continue to delve deeper and deeper into the game, you get to spread over the whole of Europe and North Africa and face Carthage and the Celtic tribes of Britain. When you defeat them, the option to play as the leader of their armies is unlocked. Will the Iceni led by a present-day Boudicca defeat the might of Rome, and free

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Zyweb has just published a "quickguide" article on this currrently hot topic: Accessibility of websites. [did you see the recent court action between Odeon Cinemas and a dissatisfied user of their site?] This - > W3C link takes you to the full autoritative statement. Most ARA pages pass the W3C criteria but we do need to attend to the alt tags of images.

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Google adds books to its epic search story - vnunet.com: "We're trying to make . . books searchable and available online, director of product management Susan Wojcicki told the Telegraph newspaper. Google has no intentions of becoming a book retailer, Google Print allows users to search books [whole text] by key words. Each publisher that joins the scheme will choose how much of its texts are

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RSS Marketing, Blog Marketing, Free Traffic Tips : "People go online to do basically 2 things. To read email or search for specific information. However, they are getting fed up with both of those activities. We are all tired of SPAM. That means that it gets more and more difficult to get people to sign up to free newsletters or e-courses. What does this mean to you? It means Spam filters block

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BBC NEWS Technology Net giants adopt anti-spam system Anyone familiar with the ARA web pages will know that, in 2003, we had to change our Contact Us strategy regarding "old-fashioned" email degradation trend. Our method, for which we thank several gurus at Southampton University, has been 100 per cent effective since then.

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Gmail Adds web feeds - Gmail has added Atom web feeds, a format that's akin to RSS. The feeds include a summary of each new message in your Google email. In addition, the service rolled out a more robust contact interface that nicely lists all your contacts the related messages that live in your archive as well as the ability to forward your messages to any other email account. Gmail could

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Catalhoyuk: Introduction An original presentation of an important archaeological site (pre-Roman) . . not quite the style for the ARA ? but a fascinating website . . by the Science Museum of Minnesota.

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Prospect pictures are currently producing a series for the UKTV channels which will be broadcast on all the UKTV channels in the Christmas period and we are looking for an archeologist to take part. UKTV is an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Flextech Television, the content division of Telewest Communications. Since its launch in 1997, the UKTV network’s Adult share

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A9.com Home Page I think that we should review our ARA About Us presentation and nav focus towards this . . . that is what new members are seriously interested in. The end of page straight text nav does seem to me to be used more and more? Comments please.

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Slashdot | Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live: "scapermoya writes 'Today was the official launch day of Amazon's A9.com search engine, which has been in public beta for some time now. It uses results from Google, and adds some personalized features, like bookmarks and search history. Its Java-heavy inteface reminds me of Gmail, which is nice. It doesn't seem like it was designed to supplant

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MarketingSherpa.com : Practical News & Case Studies on Internet Advertising, Marketing & PR: "How to Build Your e-Business with a Blog (6-8% of Readers Convert to Buyers)" [Thanks again: Anne Holland]

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After three years' persistence, Shane got the go-ahead to launch an entirely new site to try to take the 68-year-old pharmacy nationwide online. The new business, HealthyLifePharmacy.com, launched this January.30 days later, Shane had to report "miserable failure". " The site had only made one single sale despite receiving thousands of visitors from SEO and paid search efforts. We had an

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Telegraph | Fashion | New York: BC chic to bare-faced cheek in catwalk from Rome to Rio: " Fresco chic: Atil Kutoglu in pictures The pendulum swung from BC chic to bare-faced cheek at the weekend with everything from biblical robes to a style option for next spring/summer. The Turkish designer, Atil Kutoglu took inspiration from the ancient Roman city of Zeugma, founded in 300 BC, for a

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Writing for the Web: Eyetrack III: "Eyetrack III We've been looking at websites for over a decade now, but we still don't fully understand how we read them. Jakob Nielsen has done some pioneering work in this field, including the discovery that we read text on screen up to 25% slower than we read text on paper. Now the Poynter Institute has published the results of Eyetrack III, a study of user

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Internet Works http://www.iwks.com OUT TOMORROW: INTERNET WORKS ISSUE 89 The Autumn issue of Internet Works is out tomorrow, coming to a newsagent or doormat near you. This month's cover feature takes a close look at web analytics, the practice of measuring what goes on at your site. We ask big-name online operators why they think analytics is worthy of investment, and find out what the options

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ARA Introduction - Beer in Antiquity - Barcelona

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Weblogs in Education: Weblogg-ed Interview

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MarketingSherpa.com : Practical News & Case Studies on Internet Advertising, Marketing & PR: "How GoToMyPC Tested Landing Pages to Raise Conversion Rates by 400% (Useful Creative Samples) " This focus upon the functionality and efficiency of landing pages is a milestone marking our increased awareness of several crucial concepts re GUI [Graphical User Interface] and the psychology of

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The Google Backlink Dance Resumes: "Yesterday, August 31, 2004, Google ran their backlink 'update'. This is the process of simply showing the amount of backlinks that are pointing to your site."

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