- The women-on-women fights staged to keep us occupied | Hadley Freeman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
"From comments on Ann Romney to Newsweek articles, pitting women against each other is a way to distract from real issues" (usa journalism the_atlantic women )
- Shocking photos show Swedish Minister of Culture celebrating with ”n*g*er cake” – Fria Tider
"The self-proclaimed "anti-racist" Liljeroth declared the party officially started by slicing a piece of a cake depicting a stereotypical African woman." (politics racism sweden )
- BBC News – Learning to code
Rory Cellan-Jones learns to code: "Who needs to learn to code? You might think that a knowledge of computer programming is much like plumbing or car maintenance – something of use only to those who are going to make a living from that trade. But suddenly coding is cool – the government is listening to those calling for it to be taught in schools, and executives are signing up for courses." (dopost education software_development )
- A/B split test: cartoons vs photos » AlwinHoogerdijk.com
"Recently, while staring at our website, I started wondering: was this really a good idea? The cartoons may look nice but do they really work better than the photos?" Good questions. And great results. (dopost a_b_testing )
- Feel a bit sorry for Samantha Brick after reading this. Very … on Twitpic
How Samantha Brick commissioned by the Daily Mail. Possibly. (women daily_mail journalism samantha_brick )
- CEO Scott Thompson To Cut 50 Properties: “Yahoo Has Been Doing Way Too Much” | TechCrunch
"CEO Scott Thompson outlined his vision today for how Yahoo can start growing again. His big theme: Focus, focus, focus. “Yahoo has been doing way too much for too long and was only doing a few things really well,” Thompson said." (business dopost yahoo )
- Content payment system Piano takes more funding to go global — paidContent
Piano Media, the paid content platform currently operating bundled kiosks in Slovakia and Slovenia, is taking a €2 million ($2.6 million) second round of venture investment to boost its globalisation ambitions for and general expansion. (content monetisation piano_media fundraising payment_systems )
- In Facebook Deal for Instagram, Board Was All But Out of Picture – WSJ.com
"It was a remarkably speedy three-day path to a deal for Facebook—a young company taking pains to portray itself as blue-chip ahead of its initial public offering of stock in a few weeks that could value it at up to $100 billion. Companies generally prefer to bring in ranks of lawyers and bankers to scrutinize a deal before proceeding, a process that can eat up days or weeks." (dopost mark_zuckerberg facebook acquisition instagram )
- How Microsoft Fought True Open Standards I – Open Enterprise
"So, without much hope, I put in a Freedom of Information request [...] asking for details of all the meetings that Microsoft had had with the Cabinet Office on this subject. To my utter astonishment I was sent a real cornucopia of briefing notes and emails that Microsoft used to lobby against Restriction-Free (RF) open standards and in favour for standards based on FRAND licensing of claimed patents." (open_standards microsoft dopost government freedom_of_information )
- Twitter Blog: Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreement
A good step forward, but they're still accepting software patents: "The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes." (dopost twitter legal patents software )
- The 501 Developer Manifesto
A pastiche… "We are software developers who take pride in our work but choose not to be wholly defined by it." (software_development dopost humour manifesto )
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