November 2010

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Best New Blogs of 2010 « The Bygone Bureau bygonebureau.com

How many of this are Tumblr blogs?  Eh I can’t count that high.  Feels like we need a browser plugin that checks a url to see if it is a tumblr and allow follow right in an overlay or something. 

Cyber Monday

To make my Cyber Monday even more Cyber, I have been listening to the Tron Legacy Soundtrack by Daft Punk. On black Friday, I listened to ….

Beatboxing in Google Translate motherboard.tv
dbslayer moved to github

dbslayer code repo has moved to github - https://github.com/derekg/dbslayer  

If you are interested in JSON over HTTP access to MYSQL then come check it out. 

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Musume Doujyouji Takeshi Terauchi and Bunnys

Takeshi Terauchi - 

If I were to make a movie, I would want this guy to score it. 

Info & Music  

The pens here are excellent … along with many other things.  

“griggs Function: verb Inflected Form(s): griggs’d Pronunciation: gr\ i \gz 1. To use content on the web without permission, then request payment from original author for rewrites and editing. 2. To remain ignorant of plagiarism, ethics, copyright, and asshat behavior.” http://www.smartbitchestrashybooks.com/judithgriggs/ (via marciw)
Mashup Breakdown - Girl Talk - All Day mashupbreakdown.com
Comcast/NBC Deal Has Net Neutrality and Internet Distribution Implications nytimes.com

thedeadline:

According to filings before the F.C.C., officials there are considering imposing conditions on the Internet distribution of video. One condition could be to apply to the Internet “program access” rules that prohibit distributors like Comcast from withholding programming they own from traditional competitors. Such a condition could make it easier for entrepreneurs to distribute channels on the Internet, bypassing cable.

Because Comcast is a major supplier of broadband Internet, the F.C.C. appears to be concerned about bottlenecks in the delivery of video to consumers. Accordingly, it is also considering a net neutrality condition to the deal.

Self-promotional re-blog because this is an important subject IMO.

My new role at the Guardian | Matt McAlister mattmcalister.com
60,000+ Documented UFO Sightings With Text Descriptions And Metadata Dataset - Infochimps infochimps.com

Something to work on over Thanksgiving

Redis, from the Ground Up ← Michael J. Russo | mjrusso.com blog.mjrusso.com
if:else: Build Now, Not Later donohoe.tumblr.com

donohoe:

There is no better teacher than experience. I’ve been given excellent advice on how to avoid many pitfalls but could never fully appreciate it until I’ve made that mistake myself. Yesterday I realized the full value of “Execution Matters, Ideas Don’t” after reading this tweet:

Bitly…

“Etsy server is meditating. Our server may be experiencing momentary personal introspection”

ia play :: philosophical Etsy error
“Google’s Jeff Dean did an excellent talk at Stanford as part of EE380 – it is worth one’s time to listen. Very informative, instructive and innovative. As I listened, I jotted a few quick notes.” Google – A study in Scalability and A little systems horse sense « My missives
“Tumblr’s David Karp for Trader Joe’s: Tumblr: for when, amazingly, you’re too painfully white, tedious, middle class and hipstery for Twitter. Trader Joe’s: for when, amazingly, you’re too painfully white, tedious, middle class and hipstery for Whole Foods.” NSFW: I’m Some Random Tech Entrepreneur and I Approve This Confusing Message
Google to Give Staff 10% Raise - WSJ.com online.wsj.com
“Last week Nielsen Co. made a stunning disclosure, announcing that a computer glitch triggered by long web addresses used by social networks was tripping up the system and causing the company to underestimate the time people spend on the web by an average of 22%” Nielsen Admits Big Problems With How Its Tech Measures Web - Advertising Age - Digital
“Payalls, as actually implemented, have not accomplished this. They don’t expand revenue from the existing audience, they contract the audience to that subset willing to pay. Paywalls do indeed help newspapers escape commodification, but only by ejecting the readers who think of the product as a commodity. This is, invariably, most of them” The Times’ Paywall and Newsletter Economics « Clay Shirky
“The researchers hooked thermometers to the scrotums of 29 young men who were balancing a laptop on their knees.” Is your laptop cooking your testicles? | Reuters
“Computers are useless. They can only give answers"--Pablo Picasso” Asking Any Question Of All Your Data - Forbes.com
Wooster Collective: Banksy's Exit Through The Gift Shop Finally Coming to iTunes, VOD, and DVD in US woostercollective.com

Seriously, one of the best movies I have seen all year. This clip does no justice to it but still. 

Urban Open Data: 100 Million 311 Calls in New York Visualized - information aesthetics infosthetics.com

actually an interesting data viz. 

I Can't Turn You Loose (Show 2, Set 3) Otis Redding

I can’t imagine a person not liking early Otis Reading. His Live On The Sunset Strip is an amazing collection.  

Princeton University - FTC appoints Princeton computer scientist Felten as chief technologist princeton.edu

This is good for the country.

CiteSeerX — Mining Social Networks for Personalized Email Prioritization citeseerx.ist.psu.edu
Onward

I went to the New Museum last week and saw two exhibits - ‘The Last Newspaper’ and ‘Free’.  It pretty much summed up my past and my future

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