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<p><a href="http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/02/migration-deadline-extended-to-may-1.html">Tomorrow</a> (May 1, 2010) Google will <a href="http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/01/deprecating-ftp.html">turn off FTP updating</a> for <a href="http://www.blogger.com/">Blogger</a>.  The old FTP-based Blogger blogs can <a href="http://blogger-ftp.blogspot.com/2010/01/migration-tool-overview.html">migrate</a> to a new Google-hosted site where FTP won't be necessary.  If a blog migrates, then all the posts in its archive will receive new URLs, all links to the old URLs will be redirected, all posts will carry their old page-rank to their new addresses, and Google will start indexing the new versions of the posts and stop indexing the old.  If a blog doesn't migrate, it will die.  Its archive may remain online, but it cannot be updated with new posts.</p> <p>My days of heavy blogging at <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html">Open Access News</a> are behind me.  In July 2009, I <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/07/housekeeping.html">curtailed my blogging</a> to make room for my new work at the Berkman Center, and in January 2010 I <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2010/01/housekeeping-future-of-oan.html">cut back even further</a> --essentially to zero-- in favor of the <a href="http://oad.simmons.edu/oadwiki/OA_tracking_project">Open Access Tracking Project</a>, a more comprehensive and scalable alert service for the now very large and very fast-growing OA movement.  OATP was not designed to do what OAN once did.  But for several years now, the high volume of daily OA news has made it impossible to keep doing what OAN once did, even with an <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2010/01/housekeeping-good-bye-to-gavin-baker.html">assistant</a>.</p> <p>Despite that, my plan was to keep <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html">Open Access News</a> alive and contribute sporadically.  But now Google has forced my hand. </p> <p>I've decided not to migrate OAN.  At first I worried about the risks to the large OAN archive:  more than 18,000 posts in more than 400 files.  I use the archive every day in my own research and I know that many of you use it too.  It's still the best source for news and links about any OA development in the last eight years, and I didn't want to take the chance that even part of it might not survive the migration or might disappear behind broken links.  Blogger has been very good about answering my anxious queries and I'm persuaded that the risks are low.  But the fact remains that migration is irreversible.   </p> <p>(I especially want to thank Blogger's Rick Klau.  He always had time for my questions even though the migration must have caused a huge spike in his workload.)  </p> <p>In the end, a more decisive factor was that I've essentially stopped blogging at OAN and don't have plans to resume.  The safest way to keep the archive intact for research is also the most realistic about my future:  freeze this blog as it is and start a new one later if I feel the need to do so.</p> <p>If I do start a new blog later, it won't be a daily news blog about new OA developments.  I've been there, and the future for that task is the crowdsourced approach of OATP.  But if a new blog wouldn't carry on the job of OAN, then it needn't be OAN.  It would be nice to have the old page-rank of OAN, but if I do start a new blog --by no means certain-- I'll start from scratch like everyone else.</p> <p>I'll still be able to update the OAN <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/aboutblog.htm">About page</a>.  If I have any blog-related announcements too late to blog, look for them there.</p> <p>I've often thanked the <a href="http://www.soros.org/initiatives/information">Open Society Institute</a>, <a href="http://www.arl.org/sparc/">SPARC</a>, and the <a href="http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/">Wellcome Trust</a> for the financial support that made OAN possible.  But I'll never be able to thank them adequately.  OAN was more than a mere job and more than a full-time job.  Without their support I would have watched from the sidelines.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3536726-1206964680448694322?l=www.earlham.edu%2F%7Epeters%2Ffos%2Ffosblog.html' alt='' /></div>
April SOAN
<p>I just mailed the <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/04-02-10.htm">April issue of the <em>SPARC Open Access Newsletter</em></a>. This issue reviews some reader-suggested verbs to replace "to provide OA to". The roundup section briefly notes 117 OA developments from March. </p><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3536726-3445073981498295247?l=www.earlham.edu%2F%7Epeters%2Ffos%2Ffosblog.html' alt='' /></div>
Wanted: a verb meaning "to provide OA to"
<p>The <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-10.htm#contest">word contest</a> in my <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-10.htm">March newsletter</a> is generating some enthusiastic responses.  In the first 24 hours, I've received 79 suggestions from 16 people.  </p> <p>Here's the contest again if you didn't see it:</p> <blockquote> <p><span style="widows: 2; text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; border-collapse: separate; font: medium 'Times New Roman'; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; letter-spacing: normal; color: rgb(0,0,0); word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px" class="Apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', arial, helvetica, 'Sans serif'; font-size: small" class="Apple-style-span">English speakers need a verb that means "to provide OA to".  It should be as succinct as "sell" for use in sentences such as, "We sell the print edition but ____ the digital edition."<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br /> <br />I use "to provide OA to" for lack of anything obviously better.  But I don't like it.  It's long, dry, and awkward.  Making a digital work OA is a fairly elemental act, and the verb for that act shouldn't take four words.  I'm hoping that someone out there can do better. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br /> <br />We could say "open up" or "make OA".  These are shorter than four words, but they're still phrases and I'm hoping that creative people can find or invent a single word.  We could say simply "open", but that would be ambiguous, since we already say "open the journal" and "open the book" with another meaning in mind.  "Give away" (or "giveaway") is also ambiguous, since we sometimes give away priced, printed literature.  "Disclose" is a nice fit etymologically but has similar ambiguities.  "Liberate" is a little ambiguous, a little precious, and suggests an overcoming of resistance which is by no means intrinsic to OA. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br /> <br />We could revive and hijack a rare word like "derestrict" or "debouche" (the way gamers revived and hijacked "avatar"), but could we find one that is less dry and technical-sounding?  We could coin a familiar-sounding new term like "openize" or "accessibilitate", but could we find one that is less nauseating?  We could coin an utterly new word like "fazz" or "jirp", but could we find one that actually suggests the intended meaning? <br /> <br />There's no prize in this contest except glory.  I'll summarize the results in the next issue, and may also post them to the SPARC Open Access Forum for further discussion. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br /> <br />If the submissions aren't any better than "open", "debouche", "accessibilitate", and "fazz", then I won't pick a favorite or a winner, but I'll still share the results.  If there's an array of plausible contenders, one of them may catch fire with some of you and start to spread, becoming more acceptable as it goes.  But you can already sense some of my personal criteria:  Would the word be ambiguous (bad), pretentious (bad), sound like insider jargon (bad), or make OA itself sound technical and difficult (bad)?  Would it be short (good), sweet (good), and more or less self-explanatory (good)? <br /> <br />If other languages already have elegant solutions to this problem, I'd love to hear about them. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> <br /> <br />Send me your ideas (peter dot suber at gmail dot com).  I'll assume that I may name and quote you unless you tell me otherwise. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></p></blockquote> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3536726-671773090516673850?l=www.earlham.edu%2F%7Epeters%2Ffos%2Ffosblog.html' alt='' /></div>
March SOAN
<p>I just mailed the <a href="http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/03-02-10.htm">March issue of the <em>SPARC Open Access Newsletter</em></a>.  This issue takes a close look at how "market-oriented" economic sectors differ from "mission-oriented" sectors, and where scholarly publishing belongs on this spectrum.  </p> <p>The roundup section briefly notes 112 OA developments from February.</p> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3536726-3677456341238073584?l=www.earlham.edu%2F%7Epeters%2Ffos%2Ffosblog.html' alt='' /></div>
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Top 5 Free Keyword Research Tools For Web Developers And Online Marketers
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The benefits of finding the best free keyword tools online today are plentiful for you. With so many popping up online you often ask yourself which one is worth using for my basic keyword needs.
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There’s just one thing I want to mention about these free keyword tools below and that is they only give you the amount of searches for that given keyword phrase. What they don’t give you is your competition for those given keyword phrases.
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Lets start with the first one.
1) Wordtracker Free Keyword Tool
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Go to: http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com
2) Google Adwords Keyword Tool
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Go to: https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
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SEO Books keyword tool is powered by Wordtracker's API, plus it cross references Google and Yahoo search results to give you a detailed view of your keyword analysis.
Go to: http://tools.seobook.com/keyword-tools/seobook/
4) NicheBot Classic Keyword Tool
With NicheBot Classic which also uses Wordtracker’s API allows you to insert your keyword and will give you the TOP 50 keywords and there daily search count and competing pages in Google, MSN and Yahoo.
Go to: http://www.nichebotclassic.com
5) Good Keywords Keyword Tool
Good Keywords is a free Windows software for finding the perfect set of keywords for your web pages. Good Keywords is completely free. No registration, no payments and no nag screens.
Go to: http://www.goodkeywords.com
So there you have it, 5 of the TOP free keyword tools available to you on the web for free to get you started with your keyword research.
There are of course paid services and software that give you more detailed keyword analysis but if you don’t have the money to spend these are a great starting point for you.
It all starts here with your keyword because what’s the point of starting a website or paid advertising campaign without this valuable information in your hands.
I hope this list of free keyword tools helps you and the best of luck with your websites and advertising campaigns.
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