Reb

I'm also voting for "yes, but main conferences/podcasts rather than publications."

In today's "Can't Decide Whether to 😂 or 😭 React" Department - team is joking about putting off WCAG testing and coding since ADA will probably end up going away next.

Developers - code for ADA regardless. If you need more incentive (and you shouldn't) it's also good for SEO.

Frame your data like the plot twist everyone saw coming but couldn't prevent - except this time, you're giving them the cheat codes to win. Make them feel smart for getting ahead of the problem.

#BigBeautifulQueries

In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture (Steve Nadis/Quanta Magazine)

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We love that Julien does this, but who can blame him for getting a bit weary of the northern European roads and weather in Spring/Autumn.

Would anyone fancy joining him for the journey this April?

Want a deep dive into Log Files Analysis for SEO? Join me for a Masterclass in April @brightonseo.com !

Why data protection legislation offers a powerful tool for regulating AI As this week’s AI Action Summit begins in Paris, Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna explains why data protection laws like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation are emerging as key tools for regulating …

The fact that data protection law is now immediately relevant to AI systems, including the most complex ones, is not an unintended consequence, looking at how it came to be in the 1960s & 70s. Here is an explanation of why it offers powerful tools to regulate #AI:

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1. CTR is not purchase intent.
2. Rankings are not relevance
3. Impressions are not impact

Measure what makes an impact.

Bikepacking bicycle in front of the Brighton Center with BrightonSEO logo

Wondering wether to ride another ExtraMileForSEO to @brightonseo.com next April. It would be my 7th trip already, and tbh I’m not that motivated to do it again, especially solo. Anyone wants to join?

I'm reading the European Commission Guidelines on the definition of an AI System under the #EUAIAct and I find them very abstract and difficult to apply in practice. For instance ..

1/x

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New Google document on using Google Analytics and Google Search Console together www.seroundtable.com/using-google... via @danielwaisberg

#googleanalytics #googlesearchconsole #seo

🚨 BREAKING: DeepSeek R1 is now available on Perplexity, WITHOUT censorship or data transfers to China, defying recent BANS in the EU & beyond. 😱 Here's what Perplexity's CEO said:

Just learned that there’s a French-Language model called CamemBERT which makes me happy

I'm not sure whether to take this as:
- client is so frustrating that even a little-liked activity like billing is preferable, or
- client keeps willfully setting things on fire, so: frustrating, but lucrative

Should be a good webinar on the Google exploit that @markwilliamscook.com found, register at omt.tips/exploit-webinar Today at 16:00 GMT.

“Spoken language doesn’t equal written language”

Spending the day in a temporary office where no one seems to have lived in a while to find this lonely - and very true! - reminder 🤩

According to Politico, Kaplan said at the event that he "expects to roll out the (content moderation policy) changes in the EU as well", but not this year. Adding that "they would work with European regulators whenever it decides to bring those changes to the EU".

Ça s'arrose ?

Meme with two wolves. "Inside you there are two wolves" "/pagename/" vs "/pagename"

The Interface Is Always There - Christopher Butler If it’s not one of your five senses, it’s an interface. This might seem like a bold claim in an era obsessed with “invisible” and “UI-less”

“The next time someone talks about creating a UI-less experience, ask them: Through which of the five senses do they expect users to perceive their product? Whatever the answer, that’s their interface.“
Yup, fully agree with this

The Interface Is Always There by Christopher Butler

“Svá daufr orðinn, at hann mátti eigi heyra”: a critical exploration of depictions of deaf and non-speaking characters in medieval Icelandic literature Abstract. This article revisits the polarities of oralist and cultural-linguistic approaches to deaf identities through the perspective of the medieval Ice

New article with Stefan Celine Hardonk on medieval deafness. Let me know if you have trouble accessing it!
#medievalsky #middleages

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As of February 2025: Harmful AI applications prohibited in the EU - AlgorithmWatch Bans under the EU AI Act become applicable now. Certain risky AI systems which have been already trialed or used in everyday life are from now on – at least partially – prohibited.

As of today, the #EUAIAct provisions apply. Partially banned or prohibits certain AI uses that manipulate or exploit individuals, such as live face recognition or social scoring #AI

The Hampster Dance website in 1999

This website was one of the earliest examples of an Internet meme and it was created by Deidre LaCarte in 1998

#InternetHistory

People running things where they shouldn't run is my favourite kind of experiments 😍

Humidifier Review xkcd.com/3044

🚨 BREAKING: The Irish Data Protection Authority requested DeepSeek information about how it processes personal data from users in Ireland. Italy has BLOCKED DeepSeek. It looks like DeepSeek is in serious trouble in the EU.

Which country will be next?

GreenSEO Meet-up - Join the Green Web Revolution Join us on the evening of Wednesday, April 9th, for the next meeting of the Green SEO movement.

GreenSEO 🌿 is back in April as a fully-fledged @brightonseo.com Fringe event, with sessions from @nca.bsky.social, @chris-green.net, Fiona MacNeill and Kathryn Lawrence!

Grab your free ticket if you haven’t already folks: brightonseo.com/activities/g...

Hands-on with DeepSeek's chatbot: free access to powerful R1 model, but suffers from rampant hallucinations and lacks some ChatGPT tools like the memory feature (Reece Rogers/Wired)

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Trump’s PCLOB Purge Risks Banning Meta, ExTwitter, Google, And Even Truth Social From Europe In his latest “drain the swamp” move that will actually flood the entire ecosystem, Trump demanded the Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) resi…

Wrote something about how the decision to purge the PCLOB could trigger the EU no longer allowing US internet companies (incl. Meta, X, Truth Social) to operate there in short order. Also, why it sometimes helps to understand how gov't works before you smash things.

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/t...

Tout à l'heure on sort notre tout nouveau site.
C'est déjà une grosse étape, mais c'est aussi une page qui se tourne sur l'un des sites les plus complexes sur lesquels j'ai pu bosser. Et mine de rien, un coup d'oeil dans le rétro me montre qu'on l'a bien fait avancer le petit...