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Alexa Survey Uncovers Three New SEO Techniques to Increase Blog Traffic – Technorati (blog)
Jun 27th
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Alexa Survey Uncovers Three New SEO Techniques to Increase Blog Traffic
Technorati (blog) A large-scale survey, polling over 5000 blogs, which was conducted during the first months of 2011 by Alexa Internet Inc., the well-known web ranking company, uncovered three previously unknown and ground-breaking SEO techniques that are currently … |
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Digital Language Analysis Uncovers Truth of Irish Rebellion
Mar 2nd
Researchers from the University of Aberdeen joined forces with IBM‘s LanguageWare research team over the last year to understand a key moment in history.
Using LanguageWare as a basis, the team created a set of digital language analysis tools, including one they called Wordsmith, and used them to understand the creation of propaganda in the aftermath of the 1641 Irish Rebellion.
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A team including Trinity College and Cambridge, transcribed and digitized 8,000 depositions taken in 1641 of Protestant survivors of the rebellion, as well as some Catholic participants. The Aberdeen/IBM group then used the analytical tools to understand relationships between the types of language used. The results, and the full archive, are available at a dedicated website, 1641 Depositions.
The picture to emerge in the aftermath of Cromwell’s destruction of the Catholic rebels was one of mass slaughter by Catholics of women and children. This project’s forensic analysis showed how that picture was created.
One thing they found – and that would have taken a generation to parse by hand and eye – was the the worst atrocities were usually accompanied by language indicating the interviewee had not witnessed the occurrence him or herself. This persists throughout the depositions.
In a statement, Dr Nicci MacLeod, a forensic linguist, and one of the four research fellows on the project, said:
“The atrocious acts committed against women and children are a central image of the Rebellion as it was reported in London newspapers and other propaganda texts of the period. We wanted to be able to support our observations (that these were unsupported statements) with hard quantitative evidence and were able to do this using Wordsmith software which enables us to enter a search term such as ‘wife’ or ‘woman’ and see what contexts it occurs in, how it relates to other words and in what position, which combined together give us a particular impression of who did what to whom according to the testimony.”
Pamphlet image from Trinity College | other sources: Past Horizons
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Why Searching for Jewelry on Google Uncovers Some Ugly Stuff – Jewelers Circular Keystone Online (blog)
Feb 17th
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Why Searching for Jewelry on Google Uncovers Some Ugly Stuff
Jewelers Circular Keystone Online (blog) Last week, The New York Times charged, in a fascinating article, that JCPenney had improved its rankings in search engines like google by engaging in “black hat” Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tactics, such as having pages of spam links. … Worried What Your SEO Guys Are Up To? BrightEdge Will Tell You Google's Anti-Competitive Behavior Learn from JCPenney and Do SEO the Right Way |
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NYT uncovers the tawdry, seedy tale of the SEO games of JC Penney – Engadget
Feb 13th
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NYT uncovers the tawdry, seedy tale of the SEO games of JC Penney
Engadget We won't bore you with SEO basics — we're pretty sure you've got those down already — but suffice to say that The Times noticed that the retailer was at … Google Let JC Penney Spam Search Results For Months (GOOG) Navigating the Ethics of Search Engine Optimization The Dirty Little Secrets of Search |
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Digital Archaeology Uncovers the Lost Cities of the Web
Nov 12th
Today and tomorrow in London, Digital Archaeology is digging down into the history of the Internet. Said the creators of this exhibit that delves into the early years (almost 20 years ago!) of the Web:
“Soon we will know less about what was seen on PC screens — the HTML blossoming that helped change our world utterly — than we do about the relief carvings in Mohenjo-daro or the Yucatán. Although they helped defined our new culture, almost none of the websites of less than two decades ago can be seen at all.”
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The exhibit is curated by “Jim Boulton, the entrepreneur behind one of the UK’s earliest and most innovative web start-ups, Large Design (now rebadged Story Worldwide, following a 2007 creative merger).”
It consists of conversations with key players from the early years of the Web as well as more hands-on elements. Those include old computers set up to access the material. Some of the material can’t actually be looked at with newer computers – somewhat like listening to old 8 Tracks, perhaps. Also, high school and college students will be enlisted to save old materials in currently readable formats.
Thinq.co.uk put it this way.
“The team behind the exhibition . . . have trawled redundant servers and hard drives to piece together groundbreaking sites from the first two decades of the web. Many of the now-defunct sites will no longer run on modern hardware, so the exhibition’s organisers have assembled a veritable PC junkyard of old kit so you can make like it’s 1996 again.”
The exhibit takes place today and tomorrow, from noon to 9:00 p.m. at New Inn Yard, Unit 1, 36-42, in Shoreditch.
Old computers by Leif Brooks | IBM photo from Wikimedia Commons
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Keyword Tool – FREE Keyword Research Tool Uncovers Niches
May 15th
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