Archive for April, 2007.
Apr 20 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
In this useful article, “Query String Removal Helpful?”, Joe questions the standard wisdom that query string removal aids search engine optimization (SEO). His conclusion—semantic links are best (content is king), but the presence or absence of querystring parameters is cosmetic.
Apr 20 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
Edward Tufte will be in New York April 24–26—none of these one-day courses are sold out yet. Register here.
The fee for the one-day course is $380 per person. This fee includes all four books, Visual Explanations, Envisioning Information, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, and Beautiful Evidence. The fee for full-time students not currently employed is $200; provide a copy of the current student ID and phone number of school registrar. There are no other discounts.
Tufte writes, designs, and self-publishes his books on analytical design, which have received more than 40 awards for content and design. He is Professor Emeritus at Yale University, where he taught courses in statistical evidence, information design, and interface design. His current work includes landscape sculpture, printmaking, video and a new book.
Apr 11 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
The New York Web Standards Meetup Group and the New York Semantic Web Meetup Group will be meeting at theMechanism on 19 April 2007 at 6:30 pm to discuss webcam motion tracking using Flash and query languages for RDF. Jqln to present.
19 April 2007 . 6:30 pm
theMechanism|eEmerge
440 9th Avenue 8th Floor
New York, NY 10001 [map]
Please contact us if you’d like to present at the May or June Meetup.
Apr 4 | Posted by Dave Fletcher | Add a Comment
Dave, Josh, Jeff and Tony chatter about recent projects, 30 Days ’til I’m Famous and celebrity racism. theMechanism also talks about bad design, using cute characters in design, celeb designers and more about Anna Nicole Smith.
Go and get our 7th delicious Episode
Apr 1 | Posted by Jeffrey Barke | Add a Comment
from Free Press:
Online music is in danger. A recent ruling by an obscure regulatory board threatens to put independent and public radio on the Internet out of business.
The "Copyright Royalty Board" is dramatically increasing the royalties "webcasters" must pay every time they stream a song online. Public Internet radio like NPR is especially at risk.
The rules could shut down nonprofit and smaller commercial Internet radio outlets and force larger webcasters to play the same cookie-cutter music as Clear Channel. So much for new online alternatives.
Rescue Internet Radio—Sign the Petition:
http://action.freepress.net/campaign/internetradio
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