links for 2005-10-27
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The search company has apparently been testing localized ads without telling anyone.
PaidContent reports that "Micropayments firm Peppercoin has received $8 million in venture funding." As micropayments continue to gather steam and become easier (and more affordable) for content owners and readers to use, the opportunities to monetize even small pieces of content may increase. The question is: just because it becomes easier, will readers be willing…
I wasn’t able to make it out to Gnomedex, unfortunately. Fortunately, I’ve been able to catch some of it through the streaming feed provided by the conference. I found it very interesting several weeks ago when I first heard that John Edwards would be a keynote speaker at the event. It really demonstrates the lengths…
Innovation in College Media » Blog Archive » Pre-roll ads and tragedy (tags: comments) Blogola TV nets circumventing the MSM and going to TV bloggers instead (tags: tv blogs) Google News thoughts on how Google ranks news stories (tags: googlenews) 57 Blog 101 Questions 57 questions that deserve answers — but most of us don’t…
Brian Oberkirch notes that it is Talk Like a Pirate Day. Unfortunately, I’m at DEMOfall and didn’t get to read this post until just now (barely still Pirate Talk Day here on the West Coast) and now I feel like a bad Dad because I forgot to talk to my eldest son like a pirate…
Robert Scoble takes a crack at the question of how to make RSS simple for users. I agree that we should make things simple for readers whenever possible. I have even argued in this space in the past to come up with another, more user-friendly name for RSS. But then I got to thinking. Are…
I have enjoyed photography for quite a few years now, ever since I picked up a Canon EOS Rebel film camera nearly a decade ago. In recent years, I have switched to digital and have become a bit more serious with my photography.