Monthly Archives: August 2010

Jeff Schmidt on Academic Freedom

Jeff Schmidt, author of one of my favourite books (Disciplined Minds): “Intellectual workers don’t need academic freedom to service the status quo, which is what they’ve been hired to do, but they do need academic freedom to do what they should be doing, which is questioning what they’ve been hired to do and working instead […]

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PHP Port of Arc90’s Readability

Update 2011-03-23: Readers may also be interested in how we use PHP Readability at FiveFilters.org: Content Extraction at FiveFilters.org Last year I ported Arc90’s Readability to use in the Five Filters project. It’s been over a year now and Readability has improved a lot — thanks to Chris Dary and the rest of the team […]

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