Court Orders French Web Site To Stop Rating Teachers
A Web site in France that allowed students to anonymously rate and name their teachers has been ordered by a court to no longer allow the practice.Teachers unions with the backing of the education ministry took the site to court, saying the personal comments were a breach of privacy and an "incitement to public disorder." The site note2be.com was created in January by French entrepreneurs, allowed students to rate and discuss their teacher’s abilities.
AOL’s Sitefest: Company To Launch 12 In Six Months
If they’re evenly spaced, a launch will occur every 15 or so days. If they’re not, well, there’s no telling. But regardless of the specifics, Bill Wilson, AOL’s executive vice president of programming, has promised that his company will launch 12 new sites in the next six months.
IDG TechNetwork Expands
There are millions of bloggers out there, so as a portion of the whole, 100 individuals don’t make for too impressive a group. Relatively few bloggers are relevant to the IDG TechNetwork, however, and sealing deals with 100 of them makes for a decent start.
More Americans Look Online For News
The majority of Americans (67%) say that traditional journalism does not provide what Americans want from their news, a new We Media/Zogby Interactive poll shows.The survey found that more than half of Americans (70%) think journalism is important to the quality of their communities but 64 percent are dissatisfied with the quality of journalism in their communities.
Short-Form Videos Linked To Movie Revenue
If less than ten percent of the world’s population demonstrates an interest in something, "something" may suck. Or it might just not have caught on yet, and a new white paper expresses this opinion of short-form video clips for mobile devices.
YouTube Plays With Higher Resolution Clips
The average YouTube user isn’t likely to stumble across them, but an ongoing test appears to be spreading higher-quality versions of some videos throughout the site. All that’s needed to access the clearer clips is the addition of six extra characters at the end of a URL.
More Employers Monitoring Workers Internet Use
More than one-fourth of U.S. employers have terminated employees for misusing email and one third have fired an employee for abusing the Internet according to the 2007 Electronic Monitoring & Surveillance Survey from American Management Association (AMA) and The ePolicy Institute.Twenty-eight percent of employers who have fired a worker for email misuse did so for violation of company policy (64%); inappropriate or offensive language (62%); excessive personal use (26%); breach of confidentiality rules (22%); other (12%).
An Introduction To SEO
Welcome to Daryl Quenet’s introduction to Search Engine Optimization (SEO), optimizing design, and how to maximize your websites search engine positioning for the major search engines. When it comes to running an effective website that ranks well on the search engine results pages (SERPs), there are three major factors that can influence the number of search engine referrals (incoming searches) you get. This applies to all the major search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Live). Content Is King
Nine Inch Nails Spooks Music Labels With ‘Ghosts’
Nine Inch Nails star Trent Reznor decided to enjoy his label-free status as a musician in making a work of new songs available to anyone who wants to download them.
Valleywag Salaciousness A Real Money Shot
A simple formula pays off at the Valleywag corner of the Gawker Media empire: take a mostly male audience in a notoriously sexually frustrated profession, add a dirty-talking scribe, and watch the page views roll on in.