Library Stuff Gets a New Look and URL
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005Steven Cohen’s Library Stuff is now framed and hosted by the Information Today site. "Squished" is a good word for it. = )
Archive for January 19th, 2005
2004 Deadliest Year for Journalists
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005"The International Federation of Journalists said 129 media workers had been killed in 2004, the most deaths recorded in a 12-month period since records began in the 1980s."
The federation thinks governments should do more to protect journalists.
Addendum 1/21: Bob has some more on this report.
Major Step Toward Combatting Comment Spam
Wednesday, January 19th, 2005Dave Winer has worked on the link attribute rel=”nofollow” to curb the power of comment spam on blogs using Userland software, like Manila. Google and a few more search engines and blog platforms support the attribute and more companies will probably do so soon, as well.
Peter Van Dijck explains further how this works:
"This means that [...]