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Interesting analysis on the viability of newspapers online from local political commentator Owen Polley over at 3k Versts.
Correctly Polley points out this is in a way make or break for print media, Continue reading ‘Newspaper Paywalls’
As in the best type of free – free as in beer. Worked. Eventually:
First off Wordpress.com doesn’t allow you to futer enough, especially with any PHP so that’s out. Then began googling free wordpress host (as you tend to do) and first result chosen was dreamhostapps. No good they only give you a restricted version of the wp-admin interface that prevents you from editing any script.
So I guessed what I really wanted was free cpanel hosting. That usually comes with the excellent fantastico script autoinstaller. 000webhost.com were first up with what I thought was a cpanel host. Actually just another case of false advertising on the web – they give you a restricted own brand control panel that although contains the button for Fantastico, once clicked you are told they are ‘upgrading’ it with no fixed date for go live.
this is gonna take some work, so throwaway email address to hand, I began bumping off every part of the web…
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Local rag the Belfast Telegraph is Google gaming.
They’ve set up a ‘guide’ that contains regurgitated articles from across the web with the added SEO magic dust of adding ‘Belfast’ to the end of each article title. Other regions are doing the same thing with the exact same articles. Compare Kent Online with Belfast er, online. Or Londonderry for that matter.
This particular form of content spamming, or spamdexing is known as article spinning and although Google permit it, they normally require linking back to the original source. But…
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From the week past
For the Win
Toppris – a kind of biscuit/topic/milky chocolate hybrid
Fail
Real Energy Chocolate – disgusting dark stuff
Guess which one we got issued…
I hope not.
So how about for 2009 we give up on the monthly sales numbers and builder-confidence surveys and home-price indexes. We already know 2009 isn’t going to be any better than 2008 in the housing market. Let’s just wait until next January to confirm that and avoid all the angst in between.Steve Kerch, assistant managing editor, MarketWatch
Similar rant against financial idiotism in Kevin Depew’s 5 things column on Minyanville today.
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