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Archive for January 2009


Bookmarks for 28 Jan 2009

My Facebook Nightmare | Mark Neely's Blog – 3rd HorizonIt started with a phone call around 7.30pm on Wednesday night, January 14th. A concerned friend was calling from interstate.
“Mark, where are you?,” he asked.
“I’m at home. Why?” I replied.
“So you’re not in London?”
“No.”
“And you haven’t been robbed at gunpoint and had your wallet stolen?”
“No! What [...]

Bookmarks for 27 Jan 2009

The Tagging Toolbox: 30+ Tagging Tools (tools tagging )
[PDF] GateHouse Media v New York Times Co settlementStrange agreement, but it seems to be: GateHouse will make some vague effort to protect their RSS feeds from being read by Boston.com, and Boston.com won't try to read them. (media nytimes legal system:filetype:pdf system:media:document )
Mark Porter: The Saturday [...]

Bookmarks for 22 Jan 2009

The Media Equation – Will Someone Please Invent iTunes for News? – NYTimes.comDavid Carr on the idea that the print news industry has declining revenues, and wouldn't it be nice if there was a business model which help it, like iTunes did for the music industry. (technology business media nytimes business_models news itunes )
Nokia N97 [...]

Bookmarks for 16 Jan 2009

The Media Equation – Will Someone Please Invent iTunes for News? – NYTimes.comDavid Carr on the idea that the print news industry has declining revenues, and wouldn't it be nice if there was a business model which help it, like iTunes did for the music industry. (technology business media nytimes business_models news itunes )
iTunes for [...]

Bookmarks for 15 Jan 2009

5 Corporate-Style Portrait TechniquesVarious studio steps, with diagrams of flash, camera and subject positions. One day I may approach being able to make use of this. For now, it's fantastic food for thought. (photography tips flash portraits )
Standard templates aren't such a bad idea | yelvington.comExcellent piece by Steve Yelvington on getting the variety/consistency balance [...]

Bookmarks for 13 Jan 2009

Folksy :: Sculpt, carve, cut, mould, knit, sew, go!"Folksy champions cool crafts and design talent. We marry up designers and crafters with buyers who want individual, quality stuff that's made with love." (shopping craft )
Process mapping by tubeHow to present your (business) process as a Tube map. (design visualisation mapping process )
Whirl on Flickr – [...]

Moving from a Palm Vx into the cloud (and an iPod Touch)

This is how I migrated from my Palm Vx into online productivity services, and specifically Google Contacts, Google Calendar, and Remember The Milk. This follows on from yesterday’s post, in which I described how I implement Getting Things Done on my iPod Touch — which is what I synchronise all this with so I can [...]

Getting things done on an iPhone and iPod Touch

If you’re working out how to Get Things Done (GTD) on an iPod Touch, here’s how I’m doing it. In the next post I’ll explain how I moved my data off my Palm Vx onto the Touch. But for now, here’s how I’ve managed to implement GTD on an iPod Touch. And, of course, an [...]

Bookmarks for 4 Jan 2009

Pligg Content Management System (CMS)Open source Digg-a-like using PHP and MySQL (open_source software cms php digg )
Matt McAlister » Building communities from Twitter postsExcellent post from Matt on how to build a fun and live site from tweets. (twitter mashups rss community )
UserVoice – Customer Feedback 2.0 – Harness the ideas of your customers.Allows users [...]

Bookmarks for 2 Jan 2009

API Overview : Tech Center : NPRNPR's API. (media api npr )
NPR: NPR's Open Content StrategySome words of introduction to NPR's open content strategy and API. (media api npr )
Reel history | Film | guardian.co.uk"The historian Alex von Tunzelmann watches classics of big screen history and prises fact from fiction", in a weekly series. (movies [...]