Response: Let's face it, there's simply not enough oil and gas to go around | Comment is free | The Guardian
A very clearly-argued piece responding to a leader column on oil and gas price regulation
(tags: economics oil_prices gas_prices regulatio)

mattmcalister's Bookmarks on Delicious
Bookmarks on scalable and distributed databases
(tags: databases cloud_computing distributed_computing scalability)

Shalom Auslander | Comment is free | The Guardian
The outward signs of the genius writer can be very misleading: “I live in a village in upstate New York that prides itself on being a “community of the arts”. Writers, artists, musicians - these are just some of the people who don’t actually live here.”
(tags: blogging [...]

Matt McAlister » Defining online media platforms
(tags: platforms technology)

Dorian Lynskey talks to singer-songwriter Randy Newman | Music | The Guardian
I love Randy Newman. And you hardly ever hear of him these days.
(tags: randy_newman interview)

Official Google Blog: Knol is open to everyone
Google launches Knol, rivalling Wikipedia, which previously would appear at the top of so many Google searches. What will appear there now, do you think…?
(tags: knol google launch)

Read Giles Coren’s letter to Times subs | Media | guardian.co.uk
(tags: giles_coren times media journalism subbing)

Readers’ Block | Books | The Guardian
[...] Or they are flicking dismally through Finnegans Wake, wondering how on earth they could have been so stupid as to buy something so unremittingly unreadable as this novel which, admittedly, was the third [...]

Digital Urban: London Teenage Murders From 2007 to Date, Knife Assaults and Regeneration Areas: Mapped - A Clear Pattern Emerges
(tags: mapping crime london)

Journalism.co.uk :: BBC Trust approves bbc.co.uk management overhaul plans
(tags: bbc overspend website)

InfoQ: Domain-Driven Design in an Evolving Architecture
(tags: ddd infoq guardian article)

Twitter search
Previously Summize
(tags: search twitter)

10 Ways to Take Stunning Portraits
(tags: tips photography portraits)

10 More Tips for Stunning Portrait Photography
(tags: photography tips portraits)

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog
Excellent short video series from the creator Buffy, available free until midnight on Sunday 20 July 2008.
(tags: video series joss_whedon humour)

Twitter Friends Network Browser
How people connect via Twitter
(tags: twitter connections graphing [...]

Twitturly - Real-time Link Tracking on Twitter
See what links people are twittering about
(tags: twitter tools tracking)

Flickr Architecture | High Scalability
How they do it
(tags: architecture flickr scalability)

Jewish Chronicle relaunches website with open source software
The JC chooses Drupal
(tags: jewish_chronicle drupal content_management media)

YouTube - Western Spaghetti by PES
(tags: animation video cookery fun)

Dadblog » Why newspapers need their own tech
Lloyd responds to Jeff on media organisations outsourcing technology
(tags: innovation google news jeff_jarvis outsourcing)

BuzzMachine » Blog Archive » Google as the new pressroom
Jeff Jarvis on media ogranisations outsourcing technology
(tags: innovation google news jeff_jarvis)