Tag: web
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MOOCs – Enough of the sensationalism, will they really affect Higher Education?
I have avoided writing a post on MOOCs (massive open online courses) for far too long. Partly because many other people have written about them already, and partly because I fear I might just write a diatribe. I’m not against the concept of MOOCs I hasten to add (I’d love to develop one), but against…
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The Times paid-only subscription goes live
I’ve mentioned the (questionable) usability of The Times website (thetimes.co.uk / thetimes.co.uk) subscription service in a previous blog post, however now the ‘free trial’ is over.
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Useful web considerations: Bing vs Google, YouTube and accessibility, Top 100 internet sites
This is a very brief post about a few web related things that are worthy of note recently. Bing is coming! Batten down the hatches, Google I have to say I’ve been very impressed with Bing’s advertising campaign which effectively brands itself as a ‘decision engine’ rather than a search engine, but more noteworthy for…
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How I lost all my images on Google Image search: the perils of default settings
Although I like to consider myself quite well versed in the art of SEO and visibility on the web, I did have a ‘slap-forehead-moment’ a few weeks back. I’d recently reinstalled Drupal (which this site runs on) to the latest version. However, what I failed to remember was that I’d created my own robots.txt and .htaccess…
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Murdoch charging for online news – seems a bit backward to me
The recent suggestion by Rupert Murdoch that he will be charging for online news provision starting sometime in 2010 goes against all intuition. Here’s my analysis and predictions. I mentioned the story to two people already and they both said ‘Well we’ll use BBC News instead…’ – who will pay for online news or celeb…