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Bookmarks for 9 Sep 2010

CouchOne — Your Data. Anywhere."Introducing CouchOne Mobile. A new application development platform based on CouchDB." (cloud_computing api apache database )
Newsrooms need more metrics, not fewer. « Emily Bell(wether)"The existence and use of metrics strengthens the needs for editorial judgment and moreover an ability to receive, interpret and act on live feedback should be a key [...]

Bookmarks for 8 Sep 2010

"I have read your website and it is obviously that your a foggot."An e-mail conversation with David Thorne. (humour email )
Rupert Murdoch’s Paywall Disaster: Readers, Advertisers, Journalists & Publicists All Hate It | Techdirt"We had already seen the early indications that Rupert Murdoch's paywalls from The Times and The Sunday Times in the UK were [...]

Bookmarks for 7 Sep 2010

Work Smart 2: How to Take Smart Meeting Notes | Fast Company"smart advice on taking thorough meeting notes" (productivity video meetings )
Adapting Comics for The Amazon Kindle Part 2 – The HTML Doc (Tutorial) | Robot Comics (html comics markup kindle css )
Kindle Formatting – Formatting Tips"The information on this page only covers the most [...]

Bookmarks for 3 Sep 2010

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kindlefeeder.com – RSS and Atom Feed Subscriptions For Your Amazon Kindle"Kindlefeeder is a service for Amazon Kindle owners that lets you aggregate your favorite feeds and have them delivered to your Kindle in a convenient, easy-to-navigate format. Kindlefeeder also lets you save individual webpages and have them delivered [...]

Bookmarks for 31 Aug 2010

Guardian science blogs: We aim to entertain, enrage and inform | Science | guardian.co.uk"The Guardian's science blogs network is an attempt to bring some of the expertise and [scientific] discussions to our readers. Our four bloggers will bring you their untrammeled thoughts on the the latest in evolution and ecology, politics and campaigns, skepticism (with [...]

Bookmarks for 22 Aug 2010

The Twitter Times: pigsaw"News and Blogs Selected by People You Trust " Well, news and blogs selected by people I don't mind reading the odd 140 character message from, but "trust" is a good enough approximation. (twitter aggregation social_media )
The Twitter Tim.es"The Twitter Times is a real-time personalized newspaper generated from your Twitter account" (twitter [...]

Bookmarks for 19 Aug 2010

On hiring (developers) – David R. MacIver"First off, we’re hiring. You should apply. Even if you don’t apply, check out the spec. This post will make more sense if you do, and I’d love it if you were to forward it to anyone you know who would fit…" David MacIver on the thinking behind his, [...]

Bookmarks for 17 Aug 2010

Technology Review: A New Kind of Microchip"A computer chip that performs calculations using probabilities, instead of binary logic, could accelerate everything from online banking systems to the flash memory in smart phones and other gadgets." Don't know how that could be faster. Personally I find it much easier dealing with 1s and 0s than 0.34270s [...]

Bookmarks for 17 Aug 2010

Computational Complexity: But This One Is Different…So, maybe the P=NP problem remains open: "There are two camps in our community on Deolalikar's [P != NP] paper. Those of us who saw Deolalikar's paper as just another in a long series of bad attempts at P v NP and wondering what all the fuss was about. [...]

Bookmarks for 13 Aug 2010

CustomKindle Nook Book CoverMade To Order by BlueMoonCustoms (kindle shopping )
Vintage covers for iPads and ebook readers by vintagecovers (kindle shopping )
CasephileCases Covers Cozies and more by CasePhile on Etsy (kindle shopping )
More Jacket Covers for Kindle 2 by NYChicbyL on Etsy (shopping kindle )
HANDMADE Kindle Cover Japanese Art Print Geisha by cover2cover (shopping kindle [...]