Times Goes Free

After many rumours and crossed fingers (at least on my part), the New York Times has finally bitten the bullet and removed the pay wall from its website. Columnists and other content have finally been set free to find an audience wherever they can — and that’s not all.

Users Deceive Social Networks To Protect Selves

Most people would be reluctant to provide a stranger with their personal information, and it seems that social networks - as warm and welcome as they’re supposed to make us feel - can produce the same reaction.  So, according to an emedia survey, people lie.

Search Marketing Standard Highlights for Autumn

The Autumn edition of Search Marketing Standard came out last week. I find this magazine great as it features many articles of a high quality, plus it's nice to read about SEO offline for a change, so I've listed some of the things I found of particular interest from the latest edition:

Because Algorithms Are People Too…Oh, Wait

Google has yet to create an algorithm that approximates how the human mind processes things. They're working on it, of course, but it is still a textual (as well as contextual and behavioral, and mathematical, among others) process rather than a pure cognitive process. And that creates a gap that is hard to navigate when writing for the Web: write for the reader or write…