Tuesday, September 21, 2004

How's Your E-Learning. Interesting article, worth a quick read in its own right, but I must confess I was much more intrigued by the new advertising technique used by Syllabus here - the magazine has embedded 'sponsored links' in the text of the article, which when you hover over them, deliver annoying CSS pop-ups and (presumably) link to a sponsor page. The links have their own colour - a dark green on this screen - and can't really be confused with regular links (not that Syllabus ever bothers with regular links anyways). But I think that putting a sponsored link in the 'about the author' section at the bottom of the page is a bit much. Authors may question whether they want the advertising to take all the notice in the body of their articles. By Badrul H. Khan, Syllabus, September 21, 2004 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 8:22:08 PM      Google It!.

New German Mobile Phone to Detect Bad Breath. BERLIN (Reuters) - A German telecommunications company said on Tuesday it is developing the first mobile phone that will alert users when their breath is bad or if they are giving off offensive smells. [Reuters: Technology] 8:01:25 PM      Google It!.

Order in the e-Court! [Slashdot:] 7:50:39 PM      Google It!.