December 2008
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“It’s taken for granted that The Cloud will solve scalability issues because, of...”
– Alex Payne (via buzzandersen)
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Sit Down, Stand Up from Glenn Marshall While watching this, I had a funny feeling it was very similar to the official video. It turns out it was shown as a band-approved at Antenna at the BFI. No wonder it seemed familiar.
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Matt Biddulph’s test of his Canon 5D mkII’s video capabilities, shot in Hackney. I posted this here while answering this query on the Flickr API group about embedding QuickTime video for the iPhone. Seems to work, although I’m having trouble with the object and embed tag syntax. (Also, Apple recommend writing them with JavaScript now. What a faff. No wonder Flash won.)
Dec 6th
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It's not what the papers say, it's what they don't →
headlessness: More from Ben Goldacre’s excellent Bad Science column in the Guardian, this time on the incredible media misinformation on the MMR vaccine. “On Tuesday the Telegraph, the Independent, the Mirror, the Express, the Mail, and the Metro all reported that a coroner was hearing the case of a toddler who died after receiving the MMR vaccine, which the parents blamed for their loss....
Dec 6th
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Tumblr API updated →
[this is good] - although it might be nice for third-party apps to have an OAuth rather than username/password method for logging in. Ah well, maybe next time? staff: We’ve added some new features to the Tumblr API: Edit and delete posts Authenticated reading to include private posts Convenient login behavior for embedded Dashboard browsers AIFF audio format support The optional filter...
Dec 4th
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November 2008
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Why I Love Twitter | O'Reilly Radar →
This post is much-linked, and usually I’d put it on delicious, but I’m going to dump in some big quotes and vaguely organised thoughts that, even with the new 1000 character limit over there, would probably be a bit much. Twitter is user-extensible.The @syntax for referring to users, hashtags, and whatever you call the use of $ as a special symbol for reference to financial...
Nov 30th