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Full featured and ultra-compact eReader
1 year ago | Comment
It looks like a prototype, and isn't yet available to the general public - I can hardly wait to see the finished product.
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Evolution of a Debate
1 year ago | Comment
Happy Birthday Darwin!
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Proposal Writing Blog
1 year ago | Comment
What do you see when you review your own proposals with an eye toward how they actually look (as opposed to how they read)? Do you have page after page of text without anything to break up lengthy series of paragraphs? How enticing can that be to the real reviewers who are going to decide whether or not your proposal will make the cut? Reading a proposal is not like reading a fascinating book. Because the language and content of a proposal is often dry and boring, you need to do whatever you can to get reviewers' attention and to make them want to keep reading. One of the best ways to do this is through the use of relevant and attractive graphics.
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DeepDyve Dips Into the Deep Web
1 year ago | Comment
Should serious researchers consider paying $45 every month for DeepDyve Pro? That probably depends upon whether they already have access to subscription-based products such as ProQuest, Dialog, STN, and Questel. For those in academic institutions, research laboratories, and corporate settings, DeepDyve Pro may well fall into the "nice to have" rather than "need to have." As an adjunct way to search, the free version makes an excellent complement to the premium content sources professional researchers have been using for decades.
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The economics of moving from print to online: lose one hundred, get back eight | Monday Note
1 year ago | Comment
Let’s kill a myth. The dream of a compact newsroom, able to output a high-intensity general news website doesn’t fly. Numbers simply don’t add up. And here is why. -
Murdoch: The Man Who Owns the News
1 year ago | Comment
Michaal Wolff, author of "The Man Who Owns the News," a biography of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, has answered select questions about his new book.
Q. Why hasn't Murdoch launched or acquired a news aggregation site like Huffington Post, Drudge Report — or Newser?
Wolff: He doesn't believe in Web news, doesn't understand Web news, couldn't care less about Web news
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Study: Media Need New Biz Models
1 year ago | Comment
Harvard University is releasing an in-depth study exploring the emerging digital media environment. Citizen media, according to the report, is "not doing everything we have counted on journalism institutions to do." Meanwhile, journalism institutions "are in serious trouble."
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How to be happy - Raj Persaud Lecture (Updated)
1 year ago | Comment
What is it about happiness that makes it so elusive for most of us and yet seemingly so simple for some? Is it a matter of how we approach our lives, or is it just luck in how we find the world? Psychiatrist, Dr Raj Persaud, investigates the elements that contribute or conflict with the pursuit of happiness and considers how best to reach this ultimate goal.
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Google's Secret Weapon: MapReduce
1 year ago | Comment
"The biggest challenge of the Petrabyte Age won't be storing all the data," Wired magazine noted recently, "but figuring out how to make sense of it." Making sense of it: That is where the brain behind the Internet is now heading.
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Development of an Environmentally Focused Online News Service
1 year ago | Comment
... The process is music to the ears of any online editor plagued by tedious cutting and pasting. As Sightline Daily editors find hot news stories on the web, they use a web publishing system custom-designed by ONE/Northwest to instantly send key information about each article into the Sightline Daily database.
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VC financings may increase in 2009
1 year ago | Comment
There might be a lot of new actors in the venture capital world -- especially in the growth stage (C rounds) of $10+ MM. We might see many mid-market private equity firms come down the food chain and compete with more traditional venture capital firms.
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SEO tools, internet tools and webmaster tools
1 year ago | Comment
The idea of this website is to combine various SEO tools, internet tools and webmaster tools in one place and help webmasters to build a successfull website. In addition to that, you will find some webmaster articles here with great internet related tips and tricks.
