July 2010
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Online news - with or without humans?
theluckystrike:
Sarah Chapman: “Welcome to the era of the algorithm as editor…”
The New York Times reported yesterday that Yahoo is to invert the traditional news model, in which editors decide what gets covered, by using popular search terms to guide their reporting on national affairs, politics and the media.
And as Yahoo! move away from the traditional editorial news...
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geek fix : cron locale breaking subversion client
Working on an automatic subversion cron script that called svn to run some basic add / delete / commit functions and I ran into the standard error when running from cron but not from the command line with bash:
Can’t convert string from native encoding to ‘UTF-8’
The problem is documented way back in 2006 here.
It’s due to two things : how svn uses locales and...
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listentothebit:
Tetris - 1984 - Hirokazu...
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Welcome (back)
theluckystrike:
…And so, I’ve decided to relaunch the blog. Tumblr makes it easier for me to post and manage things that inspire me from across the web (on a daily basis)
Stay tuned and say hello!
Rakim: Guess Who’s Back
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June 2010
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The design "funnel"
Design as “a cycle of elaboration and reduction”:
Elaboration phase (solid line) : “to generate as many different ideas as possible”.
Reduction phase (dotted line) : “to select one of those ideas and carefully refine it”.
via therecognitioneffect:
Concerning Fidelity in Design | UX Booth
Read this. Then show it to your account & project...
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“While a magazine understandably wants to reap the financial benefits of having a...”
– Interesting how Rolling Stone attempted to build up hype, but the full McChrystal story was still published in full online before publication in print.
From Michael Calderone writing about Rolling Stone and McChrystal on Yahoo! News. More on how the story broke on Media Guardian.
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“Need to be “part of the web” not just “on the web”
– via: Lost In Time And Space: Solr and BigTable at The Guardian » “How The Guardian transforms from RDBMS to NOSQL”
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“Back in early 1997, when the internet was held together by string, News...”
– Sean Coughlan’s article on the BBC Magazine looks at the history of early internet paywalls and the publishers dream time when readers kept trying to pay for content. Now News International will launch the paywalled version of The Times this month as other publishers watch the results.
May 2010
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WatchWK Tokyo turn a Nike trainer into an aquarium for their contribution to Paul Jenkins’ Nike 78 project. Mark built the Nike78 site and I helped with wordpress migration and database issues to get the site ready for the traffic surge after Sunday’s launch.
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“remember that ramen profitability is not the destination”
– from Paul Graham’s description of what it means for a startup to be “ramen profitable”.
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“Times Newspapers’ losses are currently running at around £240,000 a day.”
– News International is hemorrhaging cash on a daily basis… Quick - time for a paywall! (maths by Steve Busfield)
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Watchteamfublo:
An interview with James while he was teaching on the Tech 2 course at Hyper Island.
The full interview is nearly an hour long - but you can read a breakdown with highlights and quotes on Hyper Report (beta). Our favourite quote:
a developer needs to be superman and turn water into wine
It’s lovely to be interviewed… Maybe need to cut down a bit on the analogies...
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“If you come to a party and nobody offers you a drink, you leave to a happening...”
– Caterina Fake talking about building the social network part of Flickr - she would make introductions between new members that joined Flickr in its early days. From Viral Loop.
April 2010
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“Have you ever wanted to use your Dropbox but didn’t have a computer...”
– From promotional sent to me from Dropbox as soon as I landed in Sweden and got on my laptop… fluke? no! promotion!
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“javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200;...”
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open a website that has images on it
copy and paste this (minus the quotation marks) into the address bar
press return
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“Facebook will also stop “prompting” users to share information if...”
– Pay Facebook, become a “special partner”… turn off privacy prompts when users connect with your apps / pages on Facebook - amazing business model! from Facebook in new privacy row on Telegraph Tech.
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March 2010
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“All that’s left is for Google to bridge those last few miles to the end...”
– From the register reporting on research by Arbor networks. The googlenet is the world’s third largest network, only beaten by two tier 1 carriers… now they’re finishing the job by connecting to homes.
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Writing to MPs about UK Digital Economy Bill
This is main body of the email I have just sent to my MP regarding the Digial Economy Bill…
Over the last five years, broadband has made leaps forward in the UK with more and more people connecting to the greatest information resource in the world. Broadband internet access provides me with 100% of my income and has done for eight years. My rights as an individual to connect to this...
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“This would open the door to a massive imbalance of power in favour of large...”
– Jim Killock at Open Rights Group, talking about the Lords change to the controversial digital economy bill.
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Who Is Banksy? - Tumblr as a feed aggregation...
A UK street artist called Banksy has been pushing himself hard over the last couple of weeks - there’s been lots of talk about him on blogs and twitter. Plus making it into the traditional press in the last week with exclusives in The Times and Time Out London, all in the run up to the release of his film yesterday.
What is “Who is Banksy”?
We wanted to create a Banksy...
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