I came across this presentation by the National Library of Medicine and thought it was a great insight into working with Twitter data. They looked at tracking the H1N1 virus using the MEDLINE prototype. MEDLINE is the National Library of Medicine’s online library that contains 11 million cit[...]
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A dazzlin interview with Donna Fontenot
When I 1st started out learning about SEO Donna Fontenot was one of the 1st people I came across online. I read everything she wrote, and I asked questions in the forums which she always answered. More importantly she made me feel excited about SEO. I wanted to interview her because I wanted to fin[...]
A Look At Freelancing — Can You Go It On Your Own?
Today, a bit of a practical post. Angie has been a port of call during my freelancing stints and is always full of good advice. I asked her to put something together for you all. I know a fair few students read here, and I think you’ll find it really useful too. Freelancing is not [...][...]
Rant: Which are you really?
There is a lot of vocab misuse around the web, and especially in webdesign, online marketing and other areas. This does not usually disturb me in any way and I couldn’t care less, but recently it has caused me hassle, so I am having a big rant about it. Some may take it personally, but there&[...]
A case for online algorithms
This was my April fools post – the paper was autogenerated using SCIgen (who has fooled quite a few in the past). It uses hand-written context-free grammar to put the paper together. The link to the paper is temporary which is why it expired. The abstract is complete poppycock, it even con[...]



