"In this digital age, the custodians of published works are at
the center of a global copyright controversy that casts them as
villains simply for doing their job: letting people borrow books
for free."
(ZDNet quoted by "Publisher's Lunch on July 13, 2001)
It is amazing that the traditional archivists of human knowledge
- the libraries - failed so spectacularly to ride the tiger of
the Internet, that epitome and apex of knowledge creation and
distribution. At first, libraries, the inertial rep...
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July 4th, 2009 in
Internet
A Dean Phillips fan (her words, not mine) wrote me an e-mail
asking, if I hate Google, DMOZ and Yahoo! so much, why don't I
recommend an alternative search engine? I had to laugh, because
I've been receiving a lot of those types of e-mails lately.
However, to set the record straight, I don't hate Google, DMOZ
and Yahoo!. I really don't. Hate is such a ridiculous waste of
energy. I do have problems with the way they conduct
business--but hate them, no. My articles are merely an
expression of my r...
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July 3rd, 2009 in
Internet
By Jakob Jelling http://www.sitetube.com
For so many web surfers, it's almost automatic to type
Google.com in to our address bar when we want to search. So big
and well-known is Google that many browsers have a built-in
search box or typed shortcut for Google searches. In fact, we
tend to associate Google with search so much now that the word
itself is commonly used as a verb, as in "let me Google that".
It's much the same as Band-Aid, Kleenex, and Xerox, where the
brand name is so pervasive tha...
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July 2nd, 2009 in
Internet
Spyware and virii are getting craftier. New methods allow them
to boot up even when the user attempts to use safe mode; making
them extremely hard to remove.
Many of us have run into an annoying and time-consuming error.
With your machine running goofey you decide to run a scan for
trojans and spyware. Following the scan, which usually takes
fourty minutes or longer if you scan the entire system, you are
hit with the "access denied" error. Frustrating, for sure, but
being the savvy computer user...
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July 1st, 2009 in
Internet
I can't tell you how many times people have asked me, "How to do
I get my site to come up in the top ten of the search engines so
I can get hits and sell my product?"
What they really want to know is, "How can I get people to show
up to my website without spending any money on advertising my
site!"
People usually don't like my answer because accomplishing a "top
ten ranking" on any search engine always requires careful
thought along with a significant amount of work.
Three types of "Search eng...
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June 30th, 2009 in
Internet
Have you noticed how some of your competition gets all of the
free search engine traffic? Have you wondered why that is?
Getting ranked on the first page for your keywords is vital for
online success and it isn’t as difficult to do as you may think.
Most people just don’t know how to go about taking back some of
that traffic that their competition has secured.
Some Search Engine Optimization (SEO) gurus will tell you that,
“It’s difficult to get high rankings in the search engine”, so
...
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June 29th, 2009 in
Internet
The Cathedral Church of the Holy and Undivided Trinity in Ely is known as the "Ship of the Fens", a name inspired by the distant views of its towers that dominate the low-lying wetlands called The Fens.
The diocese of Ely was created in 1108 out of the see of Lincoln, and a year later the bishopric of Ely was founded.
The cathedral was started by William I in 1083, suffered the collapse in 1322 of the main tower, which was rebuilt as an octagon, and was completed in 1351.
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June 25th, 2009 in
Education
Ely Castle was in the cathedral city of Ely in Cambridgeshire. Its probable site is a mound near the cathedral which is now called Cherry Hill.
This was a motte and bailey castle built by William I in 1070 in his conflict with Hereward the Wake to subdue the Isle of Ely.
Once Ely was quiescent the motte was abandoned. However it was refortified in 1140 during the Anarchy by Bishop Nigel but surrendered to King Stephen. In 1143 Geoffrey de Mandeville was placed in charge of the castle. ...
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June 25th, 2009 in
Travel
All of the holiday parks featured are in lovely locations around the UK.
Each has been chosen for its ease of access to local towns and beauty spots or places of interest.
The sites themselves all have excellent facilities, with laundrette, shops, restaurant and fast food facilities, bars, cabaret, shows, swimming pools and children's play and entertainment facilities galore.
For a budget self-catering holiday with the best of comfort, freedom and top quality facilities, look no further th...
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June 25th, 2009 in
Travel
Beverley Racecourse is an independent race-track, based in the north of England, in East Yorkshire, and has a crowd capacity of approximately 12,000.
Beverley Racecourse only holds flat race meetings. It hosts over twenty meetings between April and September with July and August being the busiest months featuring evening racing. They have three different enclosures at the racecourse. These are: Top price Members Enclosure, Mid-range Grandstand and The Paddock Enclosure with th...
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June 25th, 2009 in
Travel