- Shared Access to David Cameron by RevDanCatt — Kickstarter
Donate now: "Because the minimum bookable hour is prohibitively expensive for the likes of you or I, generally being reserved for big business and well funded lobbying groups I have split the hour down into the following time slots… 1 x 5mins @ $10,000+; 5 x 2mins @ $9,500…" (lobbying politics humour david_cameron )
- And Here’s The Secret Reason Apple Is Crushing Google…
"The difference between Google's product design and Apple's product design starts with the difference between the types of people each company places the highest value on. Google has an engineering culture, in which brilliant technologists are the rock stars. Apple, meanwhile, has a product-design and marketing culture, in which "technology" merely serves to support a product's function and form." (dopost product_design google apple recruitment )
- New UK Job site for Hackers
The venture of Steve Buckley and Jon Gibraith:"Hacker Jobs UK is a specialist site that aims to provide a better service to those looking for something beyond regular software development as a career." (startup recruitment job_site )
- Why Do Magazines Look So Terrible on the New iPad?
"As with any high-profile product release, Apple’s new iPad device has been peppered with complaints since reaching consumers’ hands on March 16. Among them: that magazines look terrible on the new iPad’s high-resolution display." (dopost html magazines ipad )
- 120214 police wanker apology.jpg | David Hoffman Photo Library
Incredible: "I understand that on this day my officers attended your home to insist unlawfully upon the removal of a post displayed on your front window showing the face of David Cameron with the work "WANKER" printed underneath…" (david_cameron poster apology legal police )
- Help create business agility. Bake quality in
"Something common I’ve seen in effective agile teams is that testing has found a new home at the heart of development. [...] I’m referring to testers working among developers doing continuous exploratory testing on vertical slices of stories still in progress. In this setup I’ve seen the amount of testing performed after development reduce to a sanity check." (dopost testing quality_assurance agile )
- News from The Associated Press
"Two U.S. senators are asking Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether employers asking for Facebook passwords during job interviews are violating federal law, their offices announced Sunday." (dopost legal passwords facebook )
- How the Daily Mail Conquered England : The New Yorker
A wonderful piece from the New Yorker: an American perspective on the success of the Daily Mail. (new_yorker journalism daily_mail )
- Strings attached – expert real-time event photography
"You can’t take photos in the NPG without a special permit. [...] And I don’t have the special permit. When I’m working, I do, but tonight I don’t. Yet, here we are." Some lovely photos. (music national_portrait_gallery photographs photography )
- How Tech and Social Media Are Changing Travel [INFOGRAPHIC]
A so-called infographic, but really just text in an image. (social_media travel silly infographic )
- Narrative Science, robot journalists, customized news, and the danger to civil discourse.
"Automated platforms are now “writing” news reports about companies that make their money from automated trading. These reports are eventually fed back into the financial system, helping the algorithms to spot even more lucrative deals. Essentially, this is journalism done by robots and for robots. The only upside here is that humans get to keep all the cash." (finance journalism automation dopost )
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