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Pinterest’s Terms of Service, Word by Terrifying Word. Pinterest is surely a rising star.

Pinterest’s Terms of Service, Word by Terrifying Word

For those of you not in the know, it’s the online equivalent of a bulletin board – a slicker, cleaner way to put together collages of your favorite styles, photographs, design ideas, or dino art. But lately, Pinterest’s terms of service have been garnering a lot of criticism for stating in no uncertain terms that anything you “pin” to their site belongs to them. Completely. Wholly. Forever and for always. By making available any Member Content through the Site, Application or Services, you hereby grant to Cold Brew Labs a worldwide, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free license, with the right to sublicense, to use, copy, adapt, modify, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, access, view, and otherwise exploit such Member Content only on, through or by means of the Site, Application or Services.

“PERPETUAL” Did I mention you can never take it back? HelloSlide - Bring your slides to life. Shoes For Hats: Daily Mirror Hack’s Zany Wikiepdia Cheat. THE Mirror’s David Anderson writes from Nicosia of Manchester City’s UEFA Cup match with Omonia Nicosia.

Shoes For Hats: Daily Mirror Hack’s Zany Wikiepdia Cheat

Well, that’s what is says on the Wikipedia page for Omonia Nicosia, as updated by “godspants”, a web wag, and slavishly borrowed by Anderson as he does his, er, research… Jimmy Wales’ Stir-Fried Wikipedia Shannon Matthews: Sir Norman Bettison’s Wikipedia Update Lawrence Solomon On Wikipedia Climate Control French Reporters Warned Off Facebook And Wikipedia The Battle For The Soul Of Wikipedia Clinton, Obama And Wikipedia Wikipedia: The Journalists’ Friend Jimmy Wales On Rachel Marsden On Wikipedia Al Sugar’s 54-A-Side Manchester City Is The Times Fixing For Free Web Traffic On Wikipedia?

Jimmy Wales Accused Of Editing Wikiepdia For Money Celebrity News Of The Day: Vernon Kaye Is Not Dead: Wikipedia’s NPOV Is Negotiable On Climate Change Anorak. The Ultimate Facebook Timeline Q&A. How do posts by my Page look in Timeline?

The Ultimate Facebook Timeline Q&A

The most noticeable change to posts are that they are bigger when viewed on the Timeline. They are displayed as individual boxes on Timeline listed in chronological order. Photos and videos are larger. Lemontree - University of Huddersfield. Pen.io - Publish Content Online. 30 Brilliant Social Media Marketing Tips From 2011. With so many great social media marketing tips getting shared in the blogosphere, we wanted to pass along some of the best tips and ideas that came up in 2011.

30 Brilliant Social Media Marketing Tips From 2011

These are tips that, if you haven't benefitted from them yet, are evergreen enough that you can continue to leverage them well into 2012 to make your social media marketing rock. 1. Write blog content for your target audience, which is not necessarily yourself. This happens with startups a lot. They blog about being entrepreneurs, which is great – if your target audience is entrepreneurs. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13.

No place in class for digital illiterates. When I was growing up in the 1970s we all had a pretty clear idea of what it meant to be "literate" — literacy, coupled with basic numeracy, was the mainstay of junior-school education, and these basic skills served us well for decades.

No place in class for digital illiterates

Times, however, have changed and it's about time we revisited our notions of literacy for the digital age. This 20th-century notion of literacy has, I believe, mutated as the world has evolved in the face of a barrage of technologies that allow for different forms of expression and different levels of interaction: both with media and with other readers, writers, producers and editors. While we talk of ELT, ESL, Esol, in other spheres people increasingly refer to DSL – Digital as a Second Language. And if, like me, you were born before the early 1990s, then you're likely to be a "non-native" speaker of DSL, and perhaps struggling in the face of so many proficient speakers in your English language classrooms. Welcome to the Staffordshire University Library Refurbishment Page by Nikki Johnson. Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness! Social media around the world 2011.

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