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The flipbook newspaper

2009-11-01T11:08:00.000Z

Source: Journalism.co.uk

The Pros & Cons Of The Affiliate Model

2009-08-19T11:03:00.004+01:00

The Pros & Cons Of The Affiliate Model What Is Affiliate Marketing"Affiliate Marketing is a marketing method whereby one business rewards another business for sending customers, visitors and/or sales."Mostly, affiliate marketing rewards come in the form of revenue share on a sale. Site A (the affiliate) funnels visitors to Site B (the merchant). If a transaction is completed by the merchant, the

Mashable: Top 10 funny YouTube videos

2009-07-12T23:19:00.001+01:00

Great collection from Mashable

Google Operators

2009-06-20T10:38:00.003+01:00

This is a really useful slideshow. I thought I had a fairly sound grasp of Google operators but it turns out there's a lot more to it than I thought!To find case studies from official government sites about outbreaks of swine flu in UK schools try this:site:.gov.uk "swine flu*schools"~outbreakThe asterisk acts as a wildcard for any words in between 'swine flu' and 'schools' and the ~ symbol

Google Search Options

2009-05-13T22:23:00.002+01:00

"Google are upping the stakes in search with a roll out of new ways to slice and dice your search results. The most interesting and useful for me, as a journalist, is the ability to limit the search to the last 24 hours. I can imagine using this frequently. See Google's blog post here."We were told that the hardest problems in search were:- Finding the most recent information- Expressing that you

Steve Outing asks: 'digital' or 'online' media?

2009-05-05T20:34:00.002+01:00

The trouble with “online media” is that it, to my mind, implies the state of your PC constantly connected to the Internet via an ethernet cable or wi-fi. But it doesn’t really work to describe mobile devices like phones or e-readers (e.g., Amazon’s Kindle), which increasingly are supplementing or even replacing the PC as Internet access devices and retrieve data from the Internet on-demand.Source

Coraline: dark magic

2009-05-02T09:36:00.002+01:00

Went to see a preview screening of Coraline yesterday evening - totally magical."Add to those interested parties the millions who love the fantasy-rich literature of Neil Gaiman and those who adore the dreamscape artistry of Nightmare Before Christmas filmmaker Henry Selick, and you have the audience for Coraline: everybody. This thrilling stop-motion animated adventure is a high point in

The Last Unicorn

2009-04-25T16:54:00.000+01:00

Sir Tim Berners-Lee at the TED conference and the 20th anniversary of the WWW

2009-03-15T17:05:00.002Z

The World Wide Web is 20 years old!From Read Write Web:One year ago Berners-Lee said that all the pieces needed to build a new Semantic Web are now in place. Last month he gave an impassioned talk at the high-profile TED conference about a related concept called Linked Data, a set of ideas he outlined in 2006. The gist of the idea is that we need every institution that can do so to put raw data

Open Platform slideshow

2009-03-13T07:39:00.001Z

Guardian Open Platform Launch EventView more presentations from mattmcalister.

Internet most important invention in 30 years

2009-03-08T15:25:00.002Z

A panel of eight judges from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania voted that the Internet was the biggest innovation of the last three decades, followed by computers, mobile phones and e-mail.Source: New York Times

A decade of Google

2009-03-04T22:30:00.001Z

Thank you Google Operating System

New York Times: skim the Sunday paper online

2009-02-16T21:34:00.003Z

The New York Times is launching a new service that aims to replicate the experience of browsing the Sunday papers as if they're spread out across a table.It is easier and more relaxing to scan a surface of information than flip through a stack, so information is laid out in a rigid two-dimensional grid. The sections do not flip into place; instead, they slide up and down. If you want to imagine

How Reading Made Us Modern - a Professor explains

2009-02-12T21:34:00.005Z

My former tutor Professor John Mullan presents this wonderful and enlightening programme 'How Reading Made Us Modern' on BBC 4.It made me want to re-read Pamela in the coffee shop in the British Library with King George III's collection towering above me.Incidentally, one of the treasures in the BL is the Lindisfarne Gospels (late 7th/early 8th Century) - the oldest surviving translation of the

Koala bear Sam and boyfriend Bob are new Internet sensations

2009-02-11T22:21:00.003Z

I loved the story about the koala bears Sam and Bob who were rescued from the bush fires in Australia.Reuters provides the story but the Mail has the best pictures.Watch the YouTube video here:

Creative Freedoms

2009-01-08T21:00:00.002Z

Great radio 4 programme 'Free for All' on In Business.Wired magazine's Chris Anderson talks about the long tail and Professor James Boyle explains the Creative Commons copyright system.Subscribe to the podcast here.

Cute Animals Singing Christmas Songs

2008-12-25T12:17:00.002Z

Great video of animals singing a Christmas song:Thanks to the Guardian for pointing it out here.

France calls Google predator

2008-12-16T20:17:00.005Z

Strong anti-Google sentiments from French publishers reveal a stuck-in-the-mud attitude prevalent throughout much old media. But who's right?Interesting comments and round up on journalism.co.uk: French publishers vs Google: ‘You are becoming our worst enemy’Also this video:Laura Oliver who posted the article observes:Google, secrecy about its algorithms and dominance of the online ad market

Movember is over!

2008-12-04T11:22:00.000Z

Brooker Crushes

2008-11-25T22:14:00.003Z

I have just, literally moments ago, discovered that I am not alone in my fondness for Charlie Brooker . . .It started with a feed from the Guardian into my iGoogle page and now he's on TV and those clever techies have even erected a digital shrine in the form of charlian.co.uk: All Charlie, All the time.

Presidential evolution

2008-10-22T07:49:00.001+01:00

From Dave Winer's Scripting News blog:

'I will show you fear in a handful of dust . . . '

2008-10-20T19:31:00.003+01:00

I was catching up with the excellent Speechification blog and was directed by their recent post to The Poetry Archive, which was set up by Andrew Motion almost 10 years ago.The title of my entry is of course lifted from T S Eliot's The Waste Land. You can hear the poet himself reading his poem here.

Google's making us smarter

2008-10-16T21:29:00.003+01:00

No point paraphrasing - here's John Battelle's latest ripost to Nick Carr: Well, Nick, sorry, but here's at least one study backing up my contention: A new study suggests that searching online could be beneficial for the brain. Searching online triggers areas of the brain that control decision-making and complex reasoning. A study at the University of California, Los Angeles, measured brain

Deep Cove, Vancouver

2008-10-11T16:05:00.003+01:00

Me, in Deep Cove.Now back in London with much redder hair x

Giles Coren and his rants

2008-10-06T21:23:00.002+01:00

A wee while ago, Giles Coren had a very public go at the sub editors at the Times for butchering one of his reviews.Here is his letter:To: the Times subeditors From: Coren, GilesChaps,I am mightily pissed off ... I don't really like people tinkering with my copy for the sake of tinkering. I do not enjoy the suggestion that you have a better ear or eye for how I want my words to read than I do ...