Brad Colbow – Independent Web Designer, Illustrator – The Brads – This is Why Your Newspaper is DyingNot really on the mark, but the comments (including the author responding to comments) are intelligent and better balanced than the main piece. (journalism newspapers design ) The Lawrence/Julie & Julia ProjectPossibly one of the most frightening and [...]
The Netflix Tech Blog: The Netflix Simian Army"The cloud is all about redundancy and fault-tolerance. [...] We have to constantly test our ability to actually survive these "once in a blue moon" failures. [...] This was our philosophy when we built Chaos Monkey, a tool that randomly disables our production instances to make sure we [...]
Google Tried To Buy Color For $200 Million. Color Said No. | TechCrunch"Should Color have taken the Google deal? Absolutely yes. The company has stumbled since launching, has failed to live up to its own hype and has lost founder Peter Pham and Chief Product Officer DJ Patil." (google acquisition color ) ‘The Daily’ Launches [...]
Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News ran ‘black ops’ department, former executive claims – Telegraph"Dan Cooper, who helped launch Fox News as managing editor in 1996, said that a “brain room” carried out “counter intelligence” on the channel’s enemies from its New York headquarters. He was threatened after it found out he spoke to a reporter, he [...]
BBC gives too much weight to fringe views on issues such as climate change | Science | guardian.co.uk"A review of the BBC's science coverage has concluded that its drive for impartiality lends too much credence to maverick views on MMR, climate change and GM" (climate_change science bbc bbc_trust ) The Statement The Murdochs Wanted To [...]
How the Guardian Broke the News of the World Hacking Scandal – Newsweek"Every so often—perhaps once every 18 months—the veteran Guardian writer Nick Davies comes into my office, shuts the door with a conspiratorial backward glance, and proceeds to tell me something hair-raising." (hacking journalism guardian ) Guardian Zeitgeist app for HP TouchPad | Guardian [...]
The Most Incredible Thing Fox News Has Ever Done – James Fallows – National – The Atlantic"To the good: they treat hacking as a problem and scandal. To the incredible/bad: they present their (now closed) UK sister publication News of the World as a victim of the hacking problem, rather than as a perpetrator. Watch, [...]
Why files need to die – O’Reilly Radar"Files are an outdated concept. As we go about our daily lives, we don't open up a file for each of our friends or create folders full of detailed records about our shopping trips. Create, watch, socialize, share, and plan — these are the new verbs of the [...]
What G+ is really about (pst!!! it’s not social)Good slideshow. (google_plus presentation future social_media ) tesco virtual supermarket in a subway station"a large, wall-length billboard was installed in the station, designed to look like a series of supermarket shelves<br /> and displaying images and prices of a range of common products. each sign also includes [...]
Prime minister’s questions: 13 July 2011 – video | Politics | guardian.co.uk (government video david_cameron hacking news_international ed_milliband ) – The Obvious? – A word on hierarchiesI really don't agree with this, but it's a nice idea… "There has been a lot written about the end of hierarchies. In fact David Weinberger once wrote that “hyperlinks [...]
