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Canadian Schools Flee From US Servers

Universities in Canada fear the potential for abuse that could take place under the US Patriot Act, so to avoid the gaze of American investigators they have moved their RefWorks accounts to Ontario.

A Million-Attendee Event

This week, the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission hosted a webcast from Jamestown, Virginia. They worked with The History Channel to create a webcast aimed at school children to teach about the first permanent English settlement in America. The event was broadcast by satellite on television, but was also available over the Internet. According to news accounts, the audience was estimated at more than one million…

Thumbs Down on Web 2.0 Conference

GigaOm weighs in with a mostly-thumbs-down on the Web 2.0 conference; seems the cause for complaint was a lot of excessive caution and cynicism, fueled by money.

Link Bait Tips

Most of you know the importance of links when it comes to respectable search engine rankings. You need one to get the other. However, how do you go about attracting these prospective linkers? If you talk to the search engine gurus, one thing they tell is produce content others will want to link to. Another […]