Enrolling Felons

Erin L. Castro, Rebecca Ginsburg, and Marc M. Howard write about the difficulty felons have in enrolling in a university .

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Google Penalizes Some Webmaster Practices

Kasmar Szymanski, with SearchEngineLand, has prepared a guide for webmasters about Google penalties . Google can remove a site from its index if it has:

• Major and pure spam problems
• Spam problems
• User-generated spam
• Hacked content spam
• Incorrect structured data
• Unnatural outbound links

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Personal Financial Success

Kristin Wong muses on what personal financial success consists of....

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Perminantly Archive Web Content

Jennifer Slegg encourages webmasters to archive old news content rather than deleting this old material.

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Investment Warnings

Tren Griffin shares what he learned about investing from Ray Dalio.

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Meta Description

Gabka Koscova provides tips on writing a meta description for a web page.

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Richard Thaler's Tips for Personal Financial Success

James Dennin interviews Nobel-winning economist Richard Thaler, and receives five tips for personal economic success.

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Google Funds High-Tech Education

Brian Heater notes that Google is funding the training of individuals for high tech jobs . The Goodwill agency is receiving $10 million for training knowledge workers.

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Centipedes Are Beneficial

Scott Creary provides evidence that centipedes are useful home fauna.

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Chrome Operating System's Future

James Martin predicts that the Chrome operating system will expand beyond its current 5% market share in enterprises.

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iOS Upgrade Hides Airplane Mode Features

Lucas Mearian warns that Apple iPhones may not fully go into airplane mode after the recent iOS upgrade .

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New Uses for Old Android Devices

J. R. Raphael suggests uses for an old Android phone . These include serving as webcams, remotes, or iPod replacements.

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Support for Big Government

Sean Illings reports on surveys in the beliefs of the U.S. electorate which appear to show a rising support for authoritarian rule.

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The Future of Adobe Flash

Gregg Keizer provides a timetable for the future of the Adobe Flash plugin. Flash is scheduled to be eliminated by 2020.

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Interrogation Through Torture Fails

Ian Leslie reports on how to get truthful answers from a subject.

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Windows Phone's Future

Lucas Mearian suggests that Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system is on life support.

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Laptop Security in International Travel

Computerworld provides security tips for those crossing international borders with their PC or Windows laptop. (Note that this is a video, without supporting text).

There is a similar video for Android devices. -DD

Microsoft Edge Browser Migrates to iOS, Android

Gregg Keizer notes that Microsoft is porting the Edge browser to the iOS and Android platforms.

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Data and Metadata

David Knight stresses that both data and metadata should be recorded.

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Google Assistant

Emily Price suggests how the voice of the Google Assistant can be changed from the default female to male .

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Google Maps for Search

Lisa Wang notifies the world that Google Maps is adding a search component.

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NASA Offer Sends Your Name to Mars

NASA is engraving names on a chip and sending them to Mars . People who provide their names can download a nifty-looking "boarding pass." This free offer expires November 1, 2017.

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Opinions on Early Rising and Productivity

Hilary Potkewitz interviews white collar workers who rise before five to organize their life . She quotes Russ Perry, who says that the period from four to six o'clock is “the most planned, most organized and most scheduled part of my day. It’s a crapshoot from there.”

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Google Timer

Gavin Middleton explains how useful a Google timer can be in a classroom.

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National Diversity Day

October 6 has been labeled National Diversity Day .

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Bookmarking Tools

Educational Technology produced a list of bookmarking tools that are at a price-point teachers can afford.

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Study Justifies the Existence of Academic Libraries

OCLC developed a document called: "Academic Library Impact: Improving Practice and Essential Areas to Research ."

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