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links for 2008-11-21

  • "Beginning in January 2009, Bulletin subscribers will receive the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists magazine in its new digital format only. To save on the steeply rising costs of paper and postage, the Bulletin will no longer produce a print edition of its magazine.

    "Through individual Bulletin accounts, subscribers will be able to book mark articles, set up news alerts, browse by subject and author, and more. Starting in 2009, subscribers will also have full, searchable access to the past 10 years of Bulletin articles and source documents."

  • "Gays and lesbians — especially gay men — have practically perfected the art of the short-term romance. Even in longer-term relationships, we have a history of leaving them with grace and determination, rather than dragging out unhappy situations for years and years. Again, I think that's a good thing.

    "Staying in a relationship is not anyone's duty. Saying so apparently invites pathologization. It hardly needs saying that holding this position is not a medical or psychological problem. It's simply an observation based on my belief that — in the absence of a compelling collective goal — people shouldn't make themselves unhappy if they can avoid it. I see a lot of people in sad, late-stage relationship disintegration, who think they're doing something noble by staying. It's not noble."

  • Gmail just rolled out themes today. Here's their help page on that
  • Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0, at Stanford in March, is part of this series. "Symposia will be limited to between forty and sixty participants. Each participant will be expected to attend a single symposium. Working notes or AAAI technical reports will be prepared and distributed to participants in each symposium. In addition to invited participants, a limited number of interested parties will be able to register in each symposium on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration information will be available in December.
  • By Tim Berners-Lee, 2001. A bit old, but still a good and fairly non-geeky explanation of what kind of difference a semantic web can make.
  • Semantic web conference I'd like to attend. March 23-25, 2009
  • Upcoming conferences on the semantic web worldwide.
  • "But the loss of professional news-gatherers, prompted by technological upheaval and a poor economy, painfully harms Michigan's welfare. The consequences are overlooked because newspapers are lousy at reporting on themselves.

    "Consider: It isn't bloggers who put Detroit's mayor behind bars this year. Newspaper reporters did that.

  • 1. Make sure your tags are relevant to your content. Seems obvious but this takes some thought to get into the minds of users similar to keyword discovery.
    2. The more tags the merrier. I see no penalty for using all your available tag space.
    3. Spread your tags out among your clips. Adding more tags can help snag some tail.
    4. Use adjectives. Remember lots of folks are browsing and they’ll use adjectives to find what they are in the mood to view.
    5. Have some category descriptor tags. It’s important to remember YouTube’s default search settings are Videos, Relevance and All Categories.
    6. Match your title and description with your most important tags. Basic SE

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