Category Archives: Links
Hey Scoble — you’re killing Twitter » mathewingram.com/work |
“Twitter has to effectively rebuild its system while it is still running — what other companies have described as “repairing an airplane in mid-air.” But I don’t think it’s fair to blame Scoble & LaPorte. They’re not doing anything wrong.
(tags: twitter reliability scale problems technology)
Twitter: Don’t [...]
The House That Twitters Its Energy Use « Earth2Tech
“rigged up his home to twitter its energy use, and if you follow the tweets you can see in real time when Stanford-Clark has turned his lights and fountain off or on and whether he has an “unusually high electricity use”
(tags: energy environment twitter)
Open relationships demystified / [...]
Google, the NAB, and a Third Way in ‘White Spaces’ Debate
“Many of the attendees at the Aspen event – the country’s telecom elite – were simultaneously intrigued and even tentatively supportive of what is, after all, a very radical idea: potentially clearing broadcasters entirely off the airwaves.”
(tags: government regulations broadcast TV politics history mobile tidbits+fodder)
SciGuy: [...]
Andy Jordan’s Tech Diary
videoblog entry about MakerFaire. Very cool!
(tags: events video fun innovation)
How Twitter Finally Taught Me to be an Editor « Web 2.Oh. . .really?
“If I taught journalism, I’d have students edit 500-word stories as Tweets. Not for the result, but the process. I’ve edited miles of copy in my day. But I find [...]
Symbian Addict: Nokia N95 Coming To ATT? How Do You Feel About It?
I suspect this would be a very good thing for service and price, but maybe not so good for phone functionality if AT&T wants to lockdown or cripple anything (as they are wont to do)
(tags: mobile Nokia service business control tradeoffs)
Gay marriage and the ’slippery slope’ - Los Angeles Times
“Bringing up polygamy and incest [in the gay marriage debate] is simply a dodge — an attempt to distract people from the injustice of denying same-sex couples the same opportunity to marry that different-sex couples want to preserve for themselves.”
(tags: critical+thinking law society rights)
Twit-Out Conversations. Join [...]
Darla Mack - Nokia S60 News and Reviews: FCC asked to investigate handset exclusivity deals
“Rural carriers are asking the FCC to look into handset exclusivity practices that are commonplace in the market today. Rural carriers claim that such deals preclude them from offering popular handsets and stifle the industry. What do you think?”
(tags: mobile telephony [...]
Summize Gets Distribution Deal with HuffPo; Twitter’s Path to Mainstream?
“Starting today, every tag page on HuffPo features realtime conversation search. Search for the tag “Facebook,” you’ll see related HuffPo stories as well as recent related Twitter conversations, via a sidebar widget.”
(tags: publishing mashup twitter strategy widget search relevance conversational+media blogs news+biz tidbits+fodder)
NRDC’s Roland Wong explains [...]
Al Gore’s Blog Hacked | Wordpress Hacked
If you run a wordpress blog, you need to know that it can be hacked in non-obvious ways. Here’s how to check it out to see if you’ve been hacked.
(tags: wordpress nefarious problems hackers spam solutions)
Nokia N96 Versus Nokia N95 - High Tech Lounge
Sneak peek at the forthcoming Nokia [...]
TVPhotogBlog
Interesting blog by a TV news photographer in NC. Great look behind the news.
(tags: journalism TV blogging video photos tidbits+fodder)
Sunlight Foundation’s Fortune 535
New database-driven site — financial disclosure for members of Congress
(tags: journalism money politics databases government info+access services tidbits+fodder)
TimeTube by Dipity
this is a really cool YouTube tool — build a timeline of YouTube videos [...]
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