Month: April 2005

Copywriting Course Materials

By AMH

I really don’t know why it didn’t occur to me before this, but having read this story about a student posting their test on-line for profit, I’ll be adding a copyright notice to all of my course materials, homeworks and exams on Monday. I understand that students at my school will hold on to and swap old assignments and exams, but creating on-line databanks, and in particular profiting off of my creatve work, is unacceptable. The article says it well in this quote: Dane Ciolino, who teaches copyright law at Loyola University in New Orleans, said Narva took “an age-old … Continue reading Copywriting Course Materials

Moooooo? Woof!

By AMH

In looking for illustrations of busisness sites which do not represent eCommerce, in that no goods are being bought or sold, but which might still be considered commercial, I discovered that there are at least three rival pro-milk websites: got-milk.com and whymilk.com both employ the “Got Milk?” motif, though the former seems to target a younger audience and the later relies on a non-animated athletics theme, and moomilk.com seems to follow an educational theme, offering a “dynamic adventure into the dairy industry”. If that isn’t enough nutritional fun for you, check out the food allergy apparel at Allergators. You can … Continue reading Moooooo? Woof!

YaGooHooJeeGlePile!

By AMH

Why couldn’t I have seen this earlier?!?! It was just a day ago that I was talking about the differences between ranking functions in different search engines and shuffling two different windows around on the screen to illustrate how (honestly, I swear) Google and Yahoo differed in their results on different queries. And then this morning I find out about YaGooHoo!gle. [via Bitch. Ph.D.] Educational fun for the whole family! As entertaining to say as it is to use! Double the searching power of your standard search engine! Why yes, I did have an extra cup of coffee this morning. … Continue reading YaGooHooJeeGlePile!