You are currently browsing the monthly archive for May, 2008.
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Kevin: Adrian Monck reflects on his recent talk at the BBC College of Journalism. “I’d argued that the BBC’s polling on trust was symptomatic of its top down, authoritarian governance.”
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Kevin: Twitter says that programming language Ruby isn’t to blame for its recent stability issues. It’s down to super users like Robert Scoble.
Can somebody find the Technorati monster please?, originally uploaded by Kevglobal.
When you do find the Technorati monster, please put him back in his server cage. He’s been getting out too much lately.
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Kevin: An amazing look at a life through a Polaroid picture taken every day. A poignant story told through Polaroids.
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Kevin: Jay Rosen looks at the “intellectual crack-up of the Bush team” in the case of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan.
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Kevin: In the wake of BBC Trust review of bbc.co.uk, Ian Betteridge says: “Frankly, if a company isn’t agile enought to beat the BBC to market…they don’t deserve to be in business.”
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Kevin: Tom Rogers says that a show’s ratings don’t necessarily correlate to the most popular advertisements. Read this blog post by Ina Fried on Beyond Binary.
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Kevin: Mohamed Marwen Meddah explains the importance of APIs to Arab startups, but this is just of true of media companies. APIs support vast services. Ask Amazon.
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Kevin: Fred Wilson has started an interesting conversation about distributed conversation. I picked it up in FriendFeed. The comments are worth reading.
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Kevin: A site that shows conversations around a keyword on several social services such as Twitter and Last.fm. Creative Commons licence and API.
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Kevin: A thoughtful look at scaling issues in general and specifically some of the issues at Twitter. Scaling isn’t sexy, but it’s necessary to consider. Shiny will only get you so far.
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Kevin: Three cheers for Lifehacker. Enable Google contact sync even if you don’t have an iPhone or iPod touch.
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Kevin: Steve Yelvington explains why the New York Times API development is significant. Great explanation of application programming interface.
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Kevin: Open source and Creative Commons come to laptop design with the release of Via’s OpenBook.
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Kevin: Om Malik talks about an OFCOM report showing the level of broadband and mobile data use. I need to look at the details outside of London to see the fuller picure.
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Kevin: Why the current slowdown in business travel may not end when the economy recovers. Video conferencing and global collaboration.
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Kevin: New York Times available in six months. “An API is a logical next step for newspapers. It will give developers access to their vast amounts of well-researched data, and allows the paper’s brand to be spread easily across the web.”
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Kevin: ‘County pays $250,000 to advertise lack of funds’ and other great humourous headlines.
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Kevin: I like the antique mod with phone and even the Digg logo case, but a computer in a toilet?
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Kevin: Andy Carvin of NPR highlights Public Radio Exchange’s use of Del.icio.us to curate user-generated political content.
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Kevin: Phreadz seems to have taken on the ideas behind Seesmic and added a few new ideas. Feature rich. Interesting to see how it moves out of boot-strap phase.
Suw’s MacBook under destruction, originally uploaded by Kevglobal.
This would have been a perfect rainy bank holiday Monday project, but with great enthusiasm, I started the project to replace the logic board last week. Unfortunately, the connector from the inverter to the logic board appears to be fused. In trying to unfuse it, it ripped off the connector on the logic board and stubbornly refusing to unfuse itself. Now, I am going to go ahead and replace the inverter and get a new inverter cable. I’m still pretty sure that I can put Humpty Dumpty back together again, but it’s never nice encouraging when you’ve got to pull short in mid-repair. Wish us luck.
Suw tries on fancy hats, originally uploaded by Kevglobal.
Suw tries on a hat for a friend’s wedding reception. It suits her. No?
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What People Thought the Future Would Look Like…100 Years Ago , funny art pics.
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Kevin: From Martin Stabe: This slideshow showcases dozens of newspaper and journalism websites that use Drupal, the open source social publishing software.
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