APIv2: Woulda, coulda, shoulda | Foursquare Engineering BlogGreat summary of lessons learned in API design: "As we sunset foursquare APIv1 and announce some amazing new milestones for APIv2, now seemed like as good a time as any to reflect on some of the decisions we made in APIv2 and see how they’re holding up." (api [...]

What the papers won’t say | The SpectatorPeter Oborne is scathing… "The omertà of Britain’s press and politicians on phone-hacking amounts to complicity in crime" (journalism politics corruption media news_of_the_world news_international ) Is Murdoch free to destroy tabloid’s records? | MediaFile"According to British media law star Mark Stephens of Finers Stephens Innocent (whom The Times [...]

The Daily Mash – Murdoch forces normal people to agree with the GuardianThe Daily Mash captures pretty much every criticism that could be levelled at pretty much every person and organisation relating to the News of the World hacking revelations — albeit with an excess of swearing. (humour news_of_the_world journalism hacking ) Rupert Murdoch can’t [...]

YouTube – ?Episode 2 – All The Cool Kids Use Ruby?‏"He said Ruby is what all the cook kids are using. I had an honest-to-god brain aneurism right there in the meeting" (ruby video humour web_development ) Fastwords – the future in mobile authentication"…we can do better than passwords. Much better. We can replace passwords [...]

The Ed Miliband loop and the media reality deficit | Charlie Brooker | Comment is free | The GuardianCharlie Brooker says the recent infamous Ed Milliband interview exposes deeper problems with the media: "What this tells you is that many people working in TV news have grown so accustomed to seeing tapes in which politicians [...]

Speech is a messy business, as Johann Hari, um, knows | Mark Lawson | Comment is free | guardian.co.ukMark Lawson says Joann Hari's (mis)quoting style is not easy to criticise: "Even beyond deliberate invention or distortion, my guess is that the quotations in most print interviews would struggle to survive comparison with an exact transcript [...]

Confessions (strategies) of a branded journalist (or a journalist with a reputation, if you prefer) « The Buttry Diary"In this post, I want to address how to develop a brand as a journalist (call it a reputation, if branding makes you uncomfortable). Toward the end of this post, I will discuss whether we should call [...]