I read an interesting article in Business 2.0 this month (June 2006) entitled “Flipping Web Fixer-Uppers” regarding a new trend in online entrepreneurship – purchasing underperforming sites, improving the content, infrastructure, and/or marketing to build traffic and revenue, and then selling them for a profit. This has been facilitated by sites such as SitePoint and eBay where whole sites and the businesses built around them are auctioned off.I took a look at SitePoint,...
Continue ReadingAn article on the BBC reported Friday that a college professor at Bradford University in the UK has replaced classroom lectures with podcasts. Professor Bill Ashraf feels that the quality of his lectures is compromised by the large size of his classes, some of which contain as many as 250 students. ...
Continue ReadingAfter finishing our 2006 study of political web campaigns, we became curious as to how American politicians’ campaign websites compared to those in other countries. We looked at similar studies conducted in the UK, Germany, Australia, Finland, Hungary, and Sweden, and drew some conclusions:
Countries with parliamentary systems of government tend to have websites that are highly centralized. ...
Continue ReadingWe recently took a closer look at the 2006 Senate candidate’s blogs in an attempt to judge the overall quality of blog quality and blog offerings. Here is what we found:
78 percent of the 18 campaign blogs included RSS feeds.
Only 33 percent of blogs included a blogroll or links to other blogs....
Continue ReadingAccording to a recent New York Times article, “Death by a Thousand Blogs“, there are now some four million blogs in China, representing about 4% of some 100 million Chinese Internet users.
This is remarkable, given the high degree of Web censoring that occurs in China today. Although China claims that its web regulation is no more restrictive than that of the US or Great Britain,...
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