1. Cheaper Books Come at a High Cost to Worthy Literature 4 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

In the digital age, hardcover books may seem like quaint anachronisms. They are heavy, expensive and do not run the latest apps or send text messages. If someone controls the market for them, does it really matter? “When a book is released in hardcover, it signals its importance,” said ...

2. Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales Denies Site is ‘Losing’ Thousands of Volunteer Editors 7 hours ago   permalink

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After several days of press reports saying Wikipedia was loosing large amounts of editors, co-founder, Jimmy Wales, says his statistics don’t confirm the research of Felipe Ortega at Libresoft, a research group at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid. Mr. Wales told The Telegraph: “Our internal numbers don’t confirm all the claims ...

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Wikipedia denies losing editiors   —  Jimmy Wales, the co-founder of Wikipedia, is contesting the accuracy of a recent study which claims that 49,000 volunteer editors of the online encyclopaedia have left in the first three months of 2009.

3. 10 Essential Elements 7 hours ago   permalink

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Although each state’s education system is unique, 10 elements are essential in a longitudinal data system. See the 2009 DQC Survey Results to view state progress on implementing a comprehensive longitudinal data system.

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4. Happy Thanksgiving 9 hours ago   permalink

Inside AdSense Team / Inside AdSense

We'd like to wish all our U.S. publishers a very Happy Thanksgiving. As always, we'd like to give thanks to our Inside AdSense readers for your participation and support. If you're traveling, we hope your journey is safe, and wish you a fun holiday weekend with your family and friends. Happy Thanksgiving! Posted by Dia Muthana - AdSense Publisher ...

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Andy Beal / Andy Beal
Happy Thanksgiving Happy Thanksgiving!   —  To all Marketing Pilgrims, we hope you have a restful, thankful, and blessed Thanksgiving. We’ll see you back here on Monday!

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable
Happy Thanksgiving Thanksgiving Greetings 2009 From Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask & Search Industry   —  Happy Thanksgiving everyone, it is my favorite holiday. As you can imagine, the search news (as in all news) will be slow today, so here is a look at today's special logos, themes and designs from our industry. We have...

5. “Deep Indexing” from ProQuest; Emerald Brings eBook and eJournal Content Together 9 hours ago   permalink

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1) ProQuest Adds Deep Indexing Content to Select Natural Science and Technology Resources Deep Indexing technology categorizes data represented in tables, maps, charts, graphs, photographs and other figures, allowing researcher to surface data not previously included in traditional article-level index records. Now, ProQuest has combined Deep ...

6. UK: New Online Tool will Help Connect History 10 hours ago   permalink

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From the Announcement: Budding historians are set to benefit from a new online project which will revolutionise the way we search for historical sources on the internet, thanks to a £198,977 cash boost from JISC. The ‘Connected Histories’ project, which is a partnership between the Universities of Sheffield and Hertfordshire, the Institute ...

7. The Content Pyramid 11 hours ago   permalink

The Content Pyramid
Paul carpenter / Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO

I was thinking about the different types of content the other day and how you to organise your approach to it – in terms of both building content and acquiring links from that content. And now, I present to you the result of my deliberations: The Content Pyramid. The Originators At the top of the content pyramid [...]

8. Wholesale TV Bracket 18 hours ago   permalink

Wholesale TV Bracket
DaveN / Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO

So someone called “Wholesale TV Bracket” decided last night to leave a few comments on my blog, actually they get my : Dick from above for hitting so many of my blog posts that no way could they have been “under the radar” while spamming me : Dave

9. Now, Say Something Positive 1 day ago   permalink

Andrew Goodman / Traffick

Can you believe GMail is 5.59 years old? Google AdWords (Select), by contrast, is only a bit older at 7.76 years old. I'm sitting here looking at one email thread in GMail that has 41 messages in it over the past 15 days. Like a mini-Basecamp masquerading as an ordinary inbox. GMail has its quirks, but I don't let them derail me. As I am highly ...

10. When Is It Shouting? 1 day ago   permalink

When Is It Shouting?
Andrew Goodman / Traffick

Google has always prided itself on its "unmarketing". Release products in beta, quietly. Don't buy mass advertising. Let people discover your offerings organically, through online discovery, word of mouth, and a little bit of presence at the key trade shows. But things seem to have changed. Has Google stepped up the urgency of their outbound ...

11. Daily Search Forum Recap: 1 day ago   permalink

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....