Oct 01, 2008

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Sep 24, 2008

The Oil Drum - Discussions about Energy and Our Future Gasoline shortages are starting to become a problem in areas such as Nashville and Atlanta. This week's "This Week in Petroleum" (TWIP) is expected to show a big drop in gasoline inventory. In this post, I have prepared a few graphs to supplement this week's TWIP. We know that Hurricane Gustav and Hurricane Ike had a huge i (Read More)

Sep 21, 2008

Submitted by Andria: Taken more broadly, this kind of metadata can be thought of as a pedigree: who thinks that this document is valuable? How closely correlated have this person's value judgments been with mine in times gone by? This kind of implicit endorsement of information is a far better candidate for an information-retrieval panacea than (Read More)

Sep 14, 2008

Submitted by Andria: Nevertheless, and as Day argues, there is still a premium audience demographic that demands “deep and credible information about their world”. Day argues that it can only be serviced by charging premium prices for such content, now that it can no longer be cross-subsidised by more populist content. (Read More)

Sep 14, 2008

ReadWriteWeb I love the way that our culture and technology shape social media, encouraging self-expression and transparency. But it's easy to forget that there are pretty good reasons why we don't, for example, yell about our sex lives at the top of our lungs at the bus stop. Or tweet about that giant city-levelling robot we're buildin (Read More)

Sep 06, 2008

Submitted by Andria: Clearly, private browsing mode is not a trivial engineering task, but Chrome has some fundamental advantages over the “big three” that may simply make real private browsing easier to implement and maintain. (Read More)

Aug 30, 2008

Submitted by Andria: society is now slowly coming to terms with the fact that a whole generation is growing up that has only ever known the ’digital age‘, and has therefore entirely accepted the digital way of doing things. We call ourselves the Digital Native generation. (Read More)

Aug 28, 2008

Submitted by Andria: If you go to school for journalism, one of the tenets drummed into your head is the sacrosanct divide between the editorial and business sides of a newspaper. There is supposed to be almost no communication between the two sides, and certainly no collusion:. (Read More)

Aug 25, 2008

Submitted by Andria: I just want to get stuff done with simple, reliable tools and methods that are easily comprehended straight out of the box, and then go about my business. (Read More)

Aug 25, 2008

Submitted by Andria: here’s no shortcut to real relationships - online or virtual. I think “social media” is great - but the fundamentals haven’t changed. You gotta be real… and if you’re selling something, it’d better be good. (Read More)

Aug 25, 2008

Submitted by Andria: We're working to build the next-generation newspaper website management system.We have an October deadline, which seems a long way off, but it's not. There's a lot of work to do, including complete site redesigns. We're doing this simultaneously for two newspapers that are 1,200 miles apart, and the closest is almost five h (Read More)

Aug 06, 2008

Submitted by Andria: Benjamin Waber has a grim piece of news for managers and CEOs: You're out of the loop.Waber, a PhD student in MIT's Human Dynamics Group, studies the way groups interact socially — based on who's talking to whom. But unlike most social scientists, who simply ask people about their behavior, Waber and his colleagues measure (Read More)

Jul 30, 2008

Submitted by Rinesh: As a developer, you are hopefully writing mostly all your own code. Nevertheless, there might be the odd time when you need some quick inspiration or even a quick snippet of code to push things along.These 23 websites are for those times. All are excellent resources and all are about sharing tips and tricks and making code (Read More)

Jul 31, 2008

Submitted by Startrak118: Firefox offers a lot of advantages over other browsers, namely Internet Explorer. One of the greatest advantages it offers, is the ability to install add-ons. There are plenty of great plugins available for developers to use to help them make better websites and make them easier to navigate. There are extensions that cover (Read More)

Aug 04, 2008

louisgray.com In advance, my use of the word "stalker" is not intended to belittle any real-life stalking issues that are much more serious.I tend to view the Web and the interactions I have with people online optimistically, trusting first and dismissing only after repeat offenses through odd comments or bad behavior. As Cyndy's article (Read More)

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