yelvington.com | Steve Yelvington's media weblog"Howard Owens' declaration that the original sin of newspapers was "Keeping online units tethered to the mother ship" is the subject of much chatter this morning. Having been on more than one side of that question, and having been one of the originals, I categorically reject the notion of any [...]
How to recoup the costs associated with long URLs and variable names"Long URLs and variable names increase transfer size which wastes bandwidth and money
o3 magazine has a great article on the impact of long URLs on bandwidth; specifically on how much bandwidth is wasted by excessively long URLs and variable names within HTML, JavaScript, and [...]
Smarticus » BryanL demos Github GistA screencast of Gist, Github's pastebin. (git github pastebin video )
GitHub Gist is Pastie on SteroidsGithub's pastebin — Gist — explained with some context. (git github pastebin )
SpringSource Launches the Enterprise Java Cloud | SpringSourceFrom the press release: "SpringSource, the leader in Java application infrastructure and management, today introduced SpringSource [...]
New business models for journalism – CUNY provides plenty of numbers | Online Journalism Blog"So, students at CUNY have delivered their much-awaited New Business Models for journalism - four in total, that aim to answer “What happens to journalism in a top-25 metro market if a newspaper fades away. Can journalism be sustained? And how?” [...] [...]
Journalists: make like a Brazilian hooker « IN THE MODE.A modest proposal (and a pretty smart one) from Dom Rodwell: "Why shouldn’t journalists put their money where their mouth is, and get their asses on the corner to sell their wares. What I say is: make like a Brazilian hooker." (journalism newspapers business_models )
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Dictionary.com Now A Giant Web Billboard. Your Ad Here.On an unfortunately aggressive turn of events in internet advertising: "There are ads, and the there are ADS. Dictionary.com now features the latter, in what I can only describe as the most in-your-face advertisement I have ever seen on the web. About the only thing that could [...]
The 7 Software Development Wastes – Lean series Part 4 – Transportation | Agile Software DevelopmentPart 4 of 7 on waste in software development: Hand-offs. "Transportation in manufacturing corresponds to hand-offs in software development. Anytime you hand a deliverable off to a different party, there is some loss in the transfer of knowledge." (agile lean [...]
Poor Google Knol Has Gone From A Wikipedia Killer To A Craigslist WannabeOn the decline of Google Knol: "We’ve known for a while that Google’s Knol is no Wikipedia killer, but now the knowledge-sharing site is being reduced to a sad Craigslist wannabe." (knol platforms google google_knol wikipedia )
What Britain eats: three decades of grocery [...]
Agile Testing vs. Traditional Testing | Agile101"This this is a remarkably capitvating and informative talk that actually had me laughing out loud at times – it gets more serious at the lecture progresses. Elisabeth Hendrickson, founder of Quality Tree Consulting, provides training and consulting in the areas of software quality and testing." (testing video agile [...]
IE6 No More – HomeThe campaign to kill off IE6: "Enough is enough. Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 was released in late 2001. For its time, it was a decent browser, but in 2009, it is still in use by a significant portion of the web population, and its time is now up." (ie6 web_standards microsoft [...]
