I’ve seen a lot of talk recently about advertising on the web, particularly in blogs. One of the comments I found most interesting was that web-based ads would be a lot more effective if they were more targeted, ie. showing you only ads for stuff you actually wanted to buy.
The reason I find this so [...]
BBC NEWS | Technology | Musicians ‘upbeat’ about the net: “The study by US researchers, Pew Internet, suggests musicians do not agree with the tactics adopted by the music industry against file-sharing.
While most considered file-sharing as illegal, many disagreed with the lawsuits launched against downloaders.
‘Even successful artists don’t think the lawsuits will benefit musicians,’ said [...]
I’ve seen a lot of articles recently about how newspapers are dying in the
age of online media. Few people actually read “the paper” anymore, the
story goes. Many under 35 don’t even want a free subscription to their
local paper because they don’t want to be bothered with disposal of all
that paper.
I can understand this. I’ve actually [...]
>From Slashdot:
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/03/2113200=rss
An anonymous reader writes “Researchers at the University of Massachusetts
have created a tool for automatically searching handwritten historical
documents, such as the 140,000 pages that make up George Washington’s
personal papers in the Library of Congress. The most interesting part is
that the papers are scanned versions of the originals and the search tool
actually recognizes the handwritten [...]
Man Ching posted this a few days ago, but it didn’t show up on the Google Group…
Writing On Your Palm: Organized Media: “Except that I couldn’t even bear to begin reading the 6 volume work until I had the whole thing in my Zod. Same with Gibbons’ =Decline and Fall=. Here’s my thinking: I wanted [...]
For those who like myself do serious Bible Study on their PDA’s, Thomas Nelson has a relatively new offering: eBible for Palm. This is quite an impressive offering, and for the type of Bible study that I do, the best of the offerings for the Palm that are available. Click on the link to see [...]