Submitted by Matthooper
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It has been well documented that online media is eating away at print and broadcast media revenue. This decline in print and broadcast media has been going on for years, and newspapers, magazines and TV stations have been working hard to make headway online. But no matter what these companies do, their profits from online (Read More)
: i think point 2 is so true about online journalism by big networks. most of them are just re-posting news which we all know and has little analysis. i feel with all these blogs coming up, analytical posts are very much favored by many. furthermore, all of them are basically the same, there isn't a proper theme to attract certain viewers. time to start specific study on the online communities. everyone is going virtual.
: @zahhh @michaelfidler @sushaantum If you look at what we are doing here, we are INCREASING the level of substantive discussion around the news, while also expanding the universe of what is and can be labeled as "news" or "newsworthy."
Silicon Alley Insider
Today, Blaine Cook, formerly Twitter's chief architect, writes his first blog post since leaving Twitter. It certainly seems like he has some stuff to get off his chest. (Not true, says Blaine - see comment below).The gist of the piece is that languages don't scale, architectures do. It seems clear why Blaine might want to (Read More)
Submitted by Jasongoldberg:
In December 2003 I decided to take the plunge and quit my corporate job to start a new company from scratch. Believe it or not, it was an easy decision. I had an idea and a certainty that there was a valuable company to be built around it. That company was Jobster, where I served as CEO until January 2008 when I helped r (Read More)
Mogok
RMagick can be more difficult to install than the typical Ruby extension. First you have to install ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick, and those libraries require a lot of other libraries. Nevertheless, the process can be made easier with a bit of planning. (Read More)
Supporting the UW Web
I previously published instructions for setting up a Ruby Gems repository on your own account, but I neglected to include the one special step that will let a Ruby on Rails application use that gem repository.Now that step has been added to the end of the Ruby Gems on Your Account instructions.I know we are running an out-o (Read More)
Paul Graham: Essays
The web is turning writing into a conversation. Twenty years ago, writers wrote and readers read. The web lets readers respond, and increasingly they do—in comment threads, on forums, and in their own blog posts.Many who respond to something disagree with it. That's to be expected. Agreeing tends to motivate people less tha (Read More)
GigaOM
As Ruby on Rails rose to prominence in the last few years, the platform has faced derision from some programmers over its inability to scale for enterprise applications. Ruby on Rails might be good for making interactive web pages, but it was no C or Java. Benchmark Capital aims to change that with an investment of $3.5 mil (Read More)
Ruby Inside
Insoshi is a new, open-source social networking platform developed in Ruby on Rails. It’s on GitHub, so you can fork it to your heart’s content, and it can act as a base for developing your own social Web application. Features include activity feeds, profiles, photo sharing, comment walls, blogs, forums, user me (Read More)
Web Analysis, Behavioral Targeting and Advertising
I will be at eMetrics – Marketing Optimization Summit on May 4th and May 5th.On May 4th I will be leading a Web Analytics Association’s Base camp workshop on "Web Analytics for Site Optimization".This workshop will give you the tricks, tools and techniques needed to improve navigation, increase engagement and improve conver (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb
A couple of weeks ago we held a competition, asking you to tell us what web 2.0 apps most excite you currently. We had a great response, with 113 comments. I decided to list each web app mentioned in a spreadsheet and count up the most popular. What surprised me was the number of web apps that got at least one mention: 161. (Read More)