BoingBoing.net
12
Oct 09
What’s wrong with Search Engine Optimization
From Derek Powazek, a scorching indictment of the Search Engine Optimization industry, who offer a mix of obvious advice and sleazy tricks that break the web. Derek’s SEO advice? “Make something great. Tell people about it. Do it again.”
12
Oct 09
Media centers: the exciting, the boring; the solved, the unsolved
Kodak asked me to write them a short essay on home media servers for a campaign they’re running with Boing Boing. I decided to look at what excites me about media players (what we could build if every senior entertainment exec dropped dead tomorrow) and what seems to be easy and solved (hooking up a monster hard-drive to a PC with some A/V outputs).
12
Oct 09
Europeans! Call your MEP today to block net surveillance proposal!
Jérémie Zimmermann sez, “The Conciliation committee delegation of the European Parliament on the ‘Telecoms Package’ will meet on October 13th, 11AM. In this informal meeting, they will be presented an outrageous analysis by the legal team of the Parliament aimed at making them accept an extremely dangerous ‘compromise’ text replacing amendment 138, essential safeguard for citizen’s freedoms adopted twice by 88% of the votes.
12
Oct 09
Gag order blocks Guardian from reporting on Parliament
In a violation of British free speech rights dating back to the 1688 Bill of Rights, The Guardian newspaper has been forbidden by court order from reporting on a question in Parliament. We don’t know who raised the question, what it was about, or where you can find it.
12
Oct 09
Copyright vs. folk music
Doron sez, “Folk musician Steven Arntson wanted to write a song that riffed on a Woody Guthrie’s ‘I Ain’t Got No Home’. Guthrie’s song was based on the Carter Family’s ‘This World Is Not My Home’ which was in turn based on an old spirtual…
12
Oct 09
Digging through baby poo in the name of science
Boing Boing guestblogger Connie Choe is a health and culture writer by day and a professional kimchimonger by night.
