The Wall Street Journal gets spun
The Wall Street Journal seems to have been completely fooled by telecoms spin-doctors into claiming that Google, and other prominent advocates of net neutrality, have changed their views.
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The internet is easy to censor
It has often been said that the internet is hard to censor because “it treats censorship as a defect and routes around it”. This could not be more wrong, the internet is the easiest medium to censor. (more…)
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Dandelion web server
I have written a small lightweight pure TCL web server called Dandelion — because it is small and light, like Dandelion seeds, and I am no good at thinking up names (its a better name than GIMP though, and that has been pretty succesful!).
More details on the Dandelion server download page.
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Websites do not need to support Internet Explorer?
As much as I dislike Microsoft Internet Explorer, and as much as I wish that people would make their own lives and those of website developers better by using better web browsers, I have always taken supporting it as a necessary evil. It is bundled with Windows and most people take whatever it suits MS gives them. (more…)
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Blog split
I have effectively split this blog into two. I will stop posting on investment and finance related topics here, and instead post on my new blog on my Moneyterms site. (more…)
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Moneyterms RSS feed
Rather than keep posting repetitive “what’s new on Moneyterms” posts here, I have added an RSS feed of the latest additions to Moneyterms, it can be added to any feed reader, to Firefox as a live bookmark, etc. The latest additions to Moneyterms are also now shown on the home page of this site, at the bottom of the side bar.
New Moneyterms site
I have moved Moneyterms to new hosting and to the wonderful Modx platform. The time spent developing the new site was minimal, but I also replaced all the automatically generated “related page” links with manually chosen lists, which was a lot of very tedious work. It should improve site navigation.
I also removed the “Guides” section, as it was simply not good enough. It will reappear with rewritten material.
Now that is behind me I have started adding new entries again, starting with style index, discount rate, long term PE, market neutral and synthetic security.
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Modx light document tree
Moved to: http://pietersz.co.uk/software/light-doc-tree
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Moneysupermarket IPO and web business valuation
Whenever there is a website IPO, those of us with profitable websites pay attention. While a small, privately owned website will need to be valued at a steep discount to a large, listed business, it is a useful indicator of value. (more…)
Web metrics are insane
To be precise, trying to find a single set of metrics to compare the audience of different types of websites it insane. That is why Nielson/Netrating’s decision to measure time spent on websites, rather than page views, does not really matter much. Those looking for a single measure across all websites are reducing a mistake of the dotcom boom. (more…)
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