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Syntacticsinc SEO

The Results of Persistent SEO - 1 views

I have hired Philippine outsourcing firm Syntactics Inc to work on my website and take care of my online marketing needs too. In just one month, they were able to put a business-oriented website th...

search engine optimization

started by Syntacticsinc SEO on 06 Jul 11 no follow-up yet
Weiye Loh

Judge dismisses authors' case against Google Books | Internet & Media - CNET News - 0 views

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Google Books Copyright

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  • Weiye Loh on 16 Nov 13
     
    "In my view, Google Books provides significant public benefits. It advances the progress of the arts and sciences, while maintaining respectful consideration for the rights of authors and other creative individuals, and without adversely impacting the rights of copyright holders. It has become an invaluable research tool that permits students, teachers, librarians, and others to more efficiently identify and locate books. It has given scholars the ability, for the first time, to conduct full-text searches of tens of millions of books. It preserves books, in particular out-of-print and old books that have been forgotten in the bowels of libraries, and it gives them new life. It facilitates access to books for print-disabled and remote or underserved populations. It generates new audiences and creates new sources of income for authors and publishers. Indeed, all society benefits."
juliet huang

Google applying double standards? - 6 views

We all know that Google revealed the blogger who called model Liskula Cohen a skank, and everyone in the web community was up in arms because it seems that Google has breached its duty to protect i...

started by juliet huang on 09 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Paul Melissa

Google to censor content in China - 5 views

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/01/25/google-china060125.html Google agreed to Beijing's censorship policies limiting search results in order to get broader access to the large market. Google s...

Online Censorship

started by Paul Melissa on 31 Aug 09 no follow-up yet
qiyi liao

Online Censorship: Obama urged to fine firms for aiding censors - 3 views

Internet activists are urging Barack Obama to pass legislation that would make it illegal for technology companies to collaborate with authoritarian countries that censor the internet. -The Guardi...

started by qiyi liao on 02 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Weiye Loh

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Data Singapore

shared by Weiye Loh on 21 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Weiye Loh on 21 Jun 11
     
    What is data.gov.sg? data.gov.sg is the first-stop portal to search and access publicly-available data published by the Singapore Government. Launched in June 2011, data.gov.sg brings together over 5000 datasets from 50 government ministries and agencies. The aims of the portal are to : Provide convenient access to publicly-available data published by the government Create value by catalysing application development Facilitate analysis and research Besides government data and metadata, data.gov.sg also offers a listing of applications developed using government data, as well as a resource page for developers. data.gov.sg was initiated by the Ministry of Finance along with the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore . Key partners for this initiative are the Singapore Land Authority and the Singapore Department of Statistics.
Weiye Loh

Google's War on Nonsense - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Search Engine Optimization Google Content Capitalism Advertising Crowd-Sourcing Mechanical Turk

shared by Weiye Loh on 28 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • As a verbal artifact, farmed content exhibits neither style nor substance.
  • The insultingly vacuous and frankly bizarre prose of the content farms — it seems ripped from Wikipedia and translated from the Romanian — cheapens all online information.
  • These prose-widgets are not hammered out by robots, surprisingly. But they are written by writers who work like robots. As recent accounts of life in these words-are-money mills make clear, some content-farm writers have deadlines as frequently as every 25 minutes. Others are expected to turn around reported pieces, containing interviews with several experts, in an hour. Some compose, edit, format and publish 10 articles in a single shift. Many with decades of experience in journalism work 70-hour weeks for salaries of $40,000 with no vacation time. The content farms have taken journalism hackwork to a whole new level.
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  • So who produces all this bulk jive? Business Insider, the business-news site, has provided a forum to a half dozen low-paid content farmers, especially several who work at AOL’s enormous Seed and Patch ventures. They describe exhausting and sometimes exploitative writing conditions. Oliver Miller, a journalist with an MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence who once believed he’d write the Great American Novel, told me AOL paid him about $28,000 for writing 300,000 words about television, all based on fragments of shows he’d never seen, filed in half-hour intervals, on a graveyard shift that ran from 11 p.m. to 7 or 8 in the morning.
  • Mr. Miller’s job, as he made clear in an article last week in The Faster Times, an online newspaper, was to cram together words that someone’s research had suggested might be in demand on Google, position these strings as titles and headlines, embellish them with other inoffensive words and make the whole confection vaguely resemble an article. AOL would put “Rick Fox mustache” in a headline, betting that some number of people would put “Rick Fox mustache” into Google, and retrieve Mr. Miller’s article. Readers coming to AOL, expecting information, might discover a subliterate wasteland. But before bouncing out, they might watch a video clip with ads on it. Their visits would also register as page views, which AOL could then sell to advertisers.
  • commodify writing: you pay little or nothing to writers, and make readers pay a lot — in the form of their “eyeballs.” But readers get zero back, no useful content.
  • You can’t mess with Google forever. In February, the corporation concocted what it concocts best: an algorithm. The algorithm, called Panda, affects some 12 percent of searches, and it has — slowly and imperfectly — been improving things. Just a short time ago, the Web seemed ungovernable; bad content was driving out good. But Google asserted itself, and credit is due: Panda represents good cyber-governance. It has allowed Google to send untrustworthy, repetitive and unsatisfying content to the back of the class. No more A’s for cheaters.
  • the goal, according to Amit Singhal and Matt Cutts, who worked on Panda, is to “provide better rankings for high-quality sites — sites with original content and information such as research, in-depth reports, thoughtful analysis and so on.”
  • Google officially rolled out Panda 2.2. Put “Whitey Bulger” into Google, and where you might once have found dozens of content farms, today you get links to useful articles from sites ranging from The Boston Globe, The Los Angeles Times, the F.B.I. and even Mashable, doing original analysis of how federal agents used social media to find Bulger. Last month, Demand Media, once the most notorious of the content farms, announced plans to improve quality by publishing more feature articles by hired writers, and fewer by “users” — code for unpaid freelancers. Amazing. Demand Media is stepping up its game.
  • Weiye Loh on 28 Jun 11
     
    Content farms, which have flourished on the Web in the past 18 months, are massive news sites that use headlines, keywords and other tricks to lure Web-users into looking at ads. These sites confound and embarrass Google by gaming its ranking system. As a business proposition, they once seemed exciting. Last year, The Economist admiringly described Associated Content and Demand Media as cleverly cynical operations that "aim to produce content at a price so low that even meager advertising revenue can support it."
Weiye Loh

New Service Adds Your Drunken Facebook Photos To Employer Background Checks, For Up To ... - 0 views

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Employment Privacy Social Media

shared by Weiye Loh on 27 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Weiye Loh on 27 Jun 11
     
    The FTC has given thumbs up to a company, Social Intelligence Corp., selling a new kind of employee background check to employers. This one scours the internet for your posts and pictures to social media sites and creates a file of all the dumb stuff you ever uploaded online. For instance, this sample they provided was flagged for "Demonstrating potentially violent behavior" because of "flagrant display of weapons or bombs." The FTC said that the file, which will last for up to seven years, does not violate the Fair Credit Reporting Act. The company also says that info in your file will be updated when you remove pictures from the social media sites. Forbes reports, "new employers who run searches through Social Intelligence won't have access to the materials if they are completely removed from the Internet."
test and tagging

Excellent Test and Tagging in Adelaide - 1 views

I have been looking for a reliable electrical safety specialist to check on my electrical equipment which we have been using in my restaurant in Adelaide. After a week of searching, I finally found...

test and tagging

started by test and tagging on 24 Nov 11 no follow-up yet
Weiye Loh

Stock and flow « Snarkmarket - 0 views

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stock flow New Media

shared by Weiye Loh on 19 Jun 10 - Cached
  • There are two kinds of quan­ti­ties in the world. Stock is a sta­tic value: money in the bank, or trees in the for­est. Flow is a rate of change: fif­teen dol­lars an hour, or three-thousand tooth­picks a day.
  • stock and flow is the mas­ter metaphor for media today. Here’s what I mean: Flow is the feed. It’s the posts and the tweets. It’s the stream of daily and sub-daily updates that remind peo­ple that you exist. Stock is the durable stuff. It’s the con­tent you pro­duce that’s as inter­est­ing in two months (or two years) as it is today. It’s what peo­ple dis­cover via search. It’s what spreads slowly but surely, build­ing fans over time.
  • I feel like flow is ascenascen­dant these days, for obvi­ous reasons—but we neglect stock at our own peril.
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  • Flow is a tread­mill, and you can’t spend all of your time run­ning on the tread­mill. Well, you can. But then one day you’ll get off and look around and go: Oh man. I’ve got noth­ing here.
  • But I’m not say­ing you should ignore flow!
  • this is no time to hole up and work in iso­la­tion, emerg­ing after long months or years with your perfectly-polished opus. Every­body will go: huh?
  • if you don’t have flow to plug your new fans into, you’re suf­fer­ing a huge (here it is!) oppor­tu­nity cost. You’ll have to find them all again next time you emerge from your cave.
  • we all got really good at flow, really fast. But flow is ephemeral. Stock sticks around. Stock is cap­i­tal. Stock is protein.
  • And the real magic trick in 2010 is to put them both together. To keep the ball bounc­ing with your flow—to main­tain that open chan­nel of communication—while you work on some kick-ass stock in the back­ground.
  • all these super-successful artists and media peo­ple today who don’t really think about flow. Like, Wes Ander­son
  • the secret is that some­body else does his flow for him. I mean, what are PR and adver­tis­ing? Flow, bought and paid for.
  • Today I’m still always ask­ing myself: Is this stock? Is this flow? How’s my mix? Do I have enough of both?
  • Weiye Loh on 19 Jun 10
     
    flow is ascen dant these days, for obvi ous reasons-but we neglect stock at our own peril.
joanne ye

Measuring the effectiveness of online activism - 2 views

Reference: Krishnan, S. (2009, June 21). Measuring the effectiveness of online activism. The Hindu. Retrieved September 24, 2009, from Factiva. (Article can be found at bottom of the post) Summary...

online activism freedom control

started by joanne ye on 24 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Olivia Chang

Boys in blue raid Perth's Sunday Times - 2 views

Story URL: http://www.somebodythinkofthechildren.com/boys-in-blue-raid-perths-sunday-times/ Summary of the article: In February, a Sunday Times reporter Paul Lampathakis wrote an article about a ...

censorship free press

started by Olivia Chang on 02 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Jody Poh

Web tools help protect human rights activists - 7 views

1) I think it depends what is being censored. I think things like opinions should not be censored because it is violating the natural rights of a human. However, one can argue that online censors...

"Online censorship" "digital rights" 'Internet privacy tools"

started by Meenatchi on 01 Sep 09 1 follow-up, last by Jody Poh on 01 Sep 09
YongTeck Lee

Cleaning up the Web - 4 views

http://www.kippreport.com/2009/09/cleaning-up-the-web/ The website talks about creating 'halal' search engine and a 'halal' YouTube so as to cater to the growing population of Muslim that are onl...

Censor

started by YongTeck Lee on 01 Sep 09 no follow-up yet
Wing Yan Wong

Users Poke Facebook With Lawsuit Over Privacy Policies - 3 views

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/67888.html This article discusses the violation of privacy laws as well as misinformation with regards to users' personal information. It was reported that Face...

privacy personal information

started by Wing Yan Wong on 28 Aug 09 no follow-up yet
Jody Poh

U.S. students fight copyright law - 9 views

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/11/technology/11iht-download.1.7846678.html?scp=20&sq=copyright&st=Search A student previously fined for breaking copyright laws at Brown University on Rhode Island ...

copyright :file sharing" "Intellectual property rights"

started by Jody Poh on 25 Aug 09 no follow-up yet
Weiye Loh

The School Issue - Junior High - Coming Out in Middle School - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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Identity sexuality fluidity

shared by Weiye Loh on 07 Oct 09 - Cached
  • All of this fluidity, confusion and experimentation can be understandably disorienting for parents and educators. Is an eighth grader who says he’s gay just experimenting? Could he change his mind in a week, as 13-year-olds routinely do with other identities — skater, prep, goth, jock — they try on for a while and then shed for another? And if sexuality is so fluid, should he really box himself in with a gay identity? Many parents told me they especially struggled with that last question.
    • Weiye Loh
      Weiye Loh on 07 Oct 09
       
      Could this fluidity be a methodology for survival? A play of signs and seduction? In what way could it be informed by the new media? I am reminded of Peter Steiner's dog-on-internet comic.
  • A year earlier they asked Austin if he was gay after they discovered his call to a gay chat line. He promised them that he was straight, and he promised himself that he would cover his tracks better. It’s not uncommon for gay youth to have their same-sex attraction discovered thanks to a rogue number on a phone bill or, more often these days, a poorly concealed Internet search history. “We see a lot of kids get outed by porn on the computer,” Tim Gillean told me in Tulsa. “I knew one kid who told his mom: ‘I don’t know how that got there. Maybe it was dad!’ ”
    • Weiye Loh
      Weiye Loh on 07 Oct 09
       
      Issue of privacy and surveillance made possible by technology.
Weiye Loh

Why Evolution May Favor Irrationality - Newsweek - 0 views

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Evolution Rationality

shared by Weiye Loh on 18 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The reason we succumb to confirmation bias, why we are blind to counterexamples, and why we fall short of CartesianCartesian logic in so many other ways is that these lapses have a purpose: they help us “devise and evaluate arguments that are intended to persuade other people,” says psychologist Hugo Mercier of the University of Pennsylvania. Failures of logic, he and cognitive scientist Dan Sperber of the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris propose, are in fact effective ploys to win arguments.
  • That puts poor reasoning in a completely different light. Arguing, after all, is less about seeking truth than about overcoming opposing views.
  • while confirmation bias, for instance, may mislead us about what’s true and real, by letting examples that support our view monopolize our memory and perception, it maximizes the artillery we wield when trying to convince someone that, say, he really is “late all the time.” Confirmation bias “has a straightforward explanation,” argues Mercier. “It contributes to effective argumentation.”
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  • finding counterexamples can, in general, weaken our confidence in our own arguments. Forms of reasoning that are good for solving logic puzzles but bad for winning arguments lost out, over the course of evolution, to those that help us be persuasive but cause us to struggle with abstract syllogisms. Interestingly, syllogisms are easier to evaluate in the form “No flying things are penguins; all penguins are birds; so some birds are not fliers.” That’s because we are more likely to argue about animals than A, B, and C.
  • The sort of faulty thinking called motivated reasoning also impedes our search for truth but advances arguments. For instance, we tend to look harder for flaws in a study when we don’t agree with its conclusions and are more critical of evidence that undermines our point of view.
  • Weiye Loh on 18 Aug 10
     
    The Limits of Reason Why evolution may favor irrationality.
Weiye Loh

Financial Times - Tribal Workers - 0 views

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Work Play

shared by Weiye Loh on 13 Aug 10 - Cached
  • The notion that one can do anything is clearly liberating. But life without constraints has also proved a recipe for endless searching, endless questioning of aspirations. It has made this generation obsessed with self-development and determined, for as long as possible, to minimise personal commitments in order to maximise the options open to them. One might see this as a sign of extended adolescence. Eventually, they will be forced to realise that living is as much about closing possibilities as it is about creating them.
  • Weiye Loh on 13 Aug 10
     
    Today's generation of high-earning professionals maintain that their personal fulfilment comes from their jobs and the hours they work. They should grow up, says Thomas Barlow.
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