The Guardian:
Labour's drive to increase the number of pupils gaining C grades at GCSE is distorting education and forcing teachers to neglect their highest and lowest achievers, the schools select committee is expected to conclude this mo (Read More)
TechCrunch:
Extracting meaning from the Web is a difficult undertaking. Keyword search skims the surface of contextual meaning that is locked in Web pages, Tweets and feeds. That’s where semantic search comes in. The semantic web deals w (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
The Cartoons that Shook the World, by Jytte Klausen (Yale, £20)In what deserves to become the definitive account of the Danish cartoon controversy of 2005-6, none of the major actors comes out looking too good. Certainly not (Read More)
mediabistro.com: AgencySpy:
Forgetting to turn the caps lock off, Jerks in Your Area has another amusing post from this guy: YO THIS SHIT IS THE BOMB IST A FUCKING DOPE ASS MATTRISS N THIS SHIT IS MAD COMTFORABLE!I BET DIS SHIT LIEK 2 G'S AT SLEPY'S OR (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language proce (Read More)
Affiliate Marketing Blog by Shawn Collins:
I blogged about LinkShare’s Easy Links back in summer 2008, and then promptly forgot about them. If you don’t recall hearing about them, Easy Links are contextual product ads that use proprietary intelligence to serve up rele (Read More)
The Guardian:
C4's Dispatches on Britain's Israel lobby perpetuated the same old antisemitic myth – and that has effects in the real worldApparently, according to Channel 4's Dispatches programme on Monday night, there are some wealthy Jew (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Much has been written about how the bitter rivalry between Google and Microsoft has extended to their respective home energy management systems, Google PowerMeter and Microsoft Hohm. But most of these stories make it sound li (Read More)
VentureBeat:
With high speed Internet connections becoming widely available, the online video market is booming: 25 billion videos were viewed in September alone in the US, according to comScore statistics, twice as many as a year ago. Th (Read More)
mediabistro.com: AgencySpy:
It seems there isn't a day (or hour) that goes by where we don't see the genius of contextual marketing at work. This latest faux pas was discovered by Make the Logo Bigger on ChicagoTribune.com. Not only do we see a priceles (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Yesterday we wrote about how Demand Media produces 4,000 new pieces of content every day - and whether it can sustain quality at that scale. There was vigorous discussion about the quality issue in the comments, including fro (Read More)
SEO Book:
After about 11 weeks or so of being closed to new members, I have caught up on a number of projects and we have decided to re-open again. We increased the price again to try to help manage demand, as it is far easier for me t (Read More)
Make the logo bigger.:
Shauna Sand (she is/was/needs to be a celebrity). Looks like she went out for the night though. Literally. In front of her daughter. See larger pic and possibly NSFW stuff.(Via ModaMags.). (Read More)
CNN:
Geeksuit has launched a major update to its folder creation and management software, releasing Client Folder Maker 3.5. CFM v3.5, which operates as a preference pane via menu items, keyboard shortcuts or contextual menus, cre (Read More)
The Guardian:
The consumer element of the new higher education framework is a populist trick, but one full of riskWhen John Denham announced that he was working on a new "framework" for UK higher education in February 2008, he was explicit (Read More)
The Guardian:
University review signposts Labour's strategy for the future of higher educationWhat is the review?The unimaginatively titled "new framework for higher education" is a 10-15 year strategy outlining Labour's future direction f (Read More)
CNN:
Meizu's M8 phone is about to undergo a major overhaul that draws on interface elements from at least three major operating systems, a copy of leaked firmware shows. Version 1.0.0.1 will shift its attention more towards Andro (Read More)
The Guardian:
• Degrees aimed more at mature and part-time students rather than 18-year olds• Employers to be more involved in course design and fundingStudents who miss the top grades should not be automatically excluded from prestigious (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
It's called a spoiler tactic. You take your competitor's biggest cash cow and offer a free alternative. Everybody from Linux to Google has used the tactic against Microsoft. So who can fault Microsoft when it uses it against (Read More)