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Very interesting and good article Steve.

I know that I would like a feature that makes the person on the other side talk more clearly so I can understand what they are saying and not have to strain so much to make out the words.

I like to care about my Hair Growth

Gala apples are my favorite. I see from your article that I'm in the right zone to grow them. Thank you for the article. I hadn't even thought of growing apples.

Thanks for your comment, KDB. Maybe when there will be enough women who feel good as we are and aren't obsessed with dieting to fit clothes we wore at 16, social attitudes will start to change.

Well, it happened to me more than once. Again - it was people, not site, who don't understand SEO. But fortunately as a SEO beginner myself I understand them:)

Thank you for posting your comments!

Sorry - couldn't resist my troll tendencies
Were they Gauche, and Descended from the Barbers of Saville
Sorry - I know its brain rot
Fabulous article! Well done!

Thanks for this list. Looks like a great project for a series of lazy afternoons!

Thanks for your contributrion, Tolovaj, I don't see how any site can demand clickable links when authors use images they photographed or designed themselves.

Good overview on important subject. Things in USA are even more complicated as you have written , because there is also corporate copyright and things differ on the date published, copyright displayed, copyright renewed etc.

I tend to use only three kinds of images:

1. Public Domain in EU (author + 70 years, without exceptions like in USA) AND Royalty Free (this one is important because including Public Domain tag can be mandatory in some cases!) - this is also winning combination from SEO point of view.

2. Images I (my company) own the copyrights. (Think about my avatar.)

3. Images given to me by the creator of these very images (I negotiate about the credit for every such image in writing).

With these three rules things are easy to me, although I still occasionally have problems to explain this to people who demand clickable links pointing out of site (what can cause and in my case did cause a lot of mess with search engines) even to PD and RF images.

:D So big question - who was the best Dr Who ever?

Yes! Being raised on old Doctor Who, I am utterly unable to compose without cliffhangers at the end of every chapter. Unfortunately, they also taught me cliches and melodrama, which I'm still trying to eradicate.

I don't know if it was so good for the novelty value, or if it really was that wonderfully sociable. I haven't tried it again since to try, but only because my friends and I haven't been on-line together at the same time for a couple of weeks.

Oh! I forgot to mention the visually impaired, so thank you for bringing that up. Someone I used to work with was a rep for the RNIB. I remember him telling me how wonderful his laptop was, as he'd got a text-to-speech program installed.

Oh gosh, I love your story about watching movies while doing text-chat! I'm a little hard of hearing, and any chatter throws me out of a film so I can't concentrate. That sounds like a fun idea!

Seriously, thank you for sharing what the web does for the deaf. It's also revolutionized the world for vision-impaired people who can now use text-to-speech and speech-to-text tools to translate between the spoken and written medium and communicate without relying on a sighted person to transcribe written materials into Braille for them.