I wanted to check out the New York Times subscription rate for the Sunday paper, so I turned to Google. Surprise! A glitch on the programming side (where are the testers???) means that the NYT lost a customer before she even saw the price of the service!
Monthly Archives: February 2009
How To: Create A Profile Badge
If you have a blog or a web site with an “about me” page, you might want to highlight your social networks, like Facebook or LinkedIn. Each social network makes it easy to create a “badge” — an image that promotes the social network site and links to your profile. Read on to learn how to make yours!
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Intro To Twitter
For Peg’s COM301 class:
Counting Online Video “Views”
In a talk I gave in January, I said that I did not know what online video statistics mean. A few people in the audience insisted that YouTube counted a “view” only if the clip played in full.
They were wrong.
Not only were they wrong, a study from last fall (2008) suggests that most video “views” can be measured in seconds.
Lessig On KUOW Today
Lawrence Lessig will be a guest on KUOW’s “The Conversation” with Ross Reynolds today (1-2pm, 6 February). He is the author of Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy. Lessig, a law professor at Stanford, is known for his views on copyright and advocacy for Creative Common licensing. He has switched his focus to political corruption and is co-founder of Change-Congress.org. KUOW (Seattle) is an NPR station.
