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Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:22:00 GMT
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Robert Ambrogi
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:45:26 GMT
Let's start with a confession: I don't like JavaScript. I don't like object notation and I don't like programming languages where whitespace (line...
Let's start with a confession: I don't like JavaScript. I don't like object notation and I don't like programming languages where whitespace (line enders) is significant. I cut my teeth on C, and I am suspicious of any deviation from its spartan truth. I also don't trust power windows and think the Volvo 240 was the pinnacle of automotive engineering, just to put it all in...
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yelvington
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:43:29 GMT
"Colonies are self-organizing, decentralized, cooperative. As a whole, they can do more than any one ant or termite or bee can." That's the notes to...
"Colonies are self-organizing, decentralized, cooperative. As a whole, they can do more than any one ant or termite or bee can." That's the notes to one slide in a recent talk at IgniteNOLA I gave on immersive, interactive arts from...
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Evelyn Rodriguez
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:37:54 GMT
So RandomHouse has agreed to do a paperback version of Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back. I’m going to add an...
So RandomHouse has agreed to do a paperback version of Life Inc: How the world became a corporation and how to take it back. I’m going to add an extensive “resources” section to the end, with contributions from people and organizations who are succeeding at that challenge. But they also want to retitle the book. [...]
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Douglas
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:13:35 GMT
I’m hosting a new place for discussions about our digital future, the Digital Nation Roundtable, on the PBS Frontline site. I don’t have the direct...
I’m hosting a new place for discussions about our digital future, the Digital Nation Roundtable, on the PBS Frontline site. I don’t have the direct link yet, so scroll down that page a screen until you see it. And the join in!
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Douglas
Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:01:51 GMT
Life is change, and we've had some great people change their lives by leaving Morris DigitalWorks to take on new challenges in the Web consulting...
Life is change, and we've had some great people change their lives by leaving Morris DigitalWorks to take on new challenges in the Web consulting and development world. We're sad to see them go, but excited when they wind up working on cool projects like Whitehouse.gov So we're looking to grow a new crop of wizards, and in the mix we're going to be recruiting some journogeeks. A...
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yelvington
Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:03:57 GMT
It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft. First Google with its Nexus One, then Apple with its iPad, have highlighted how its empire is in risk of...
It hasn't been a good month for Microsoft. First Google with its Nexus One, then Apple with its iPad, have highlighted how its empire is in risk of falling, replaced by a new mobile world in which Microsoft is irrelevant. Most revolutions fail because the revolutionaries can't stay united. This one is no different. And there is plenty of skirmishing among the revolutionaries....
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yelvington
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:46:06 GMT
Digital Nation – a PBS Frontline documentary I’ve been working on for, gosh, two years now – is finally airing this coming Tuesday evening, Feb 2, at...
Digital Nation – a PBS Frontline documentary I’ve been working on for, gosh, two years now – is finally airing this coming Tuesday evening, Feb 2, at 9pm on pretty much all PBS stations in US. (I know: that’s during the Lost premiere that even Obama feared going up against. But you can Tivo Lost, [...]
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Douglas
Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:58:00 GMT
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Robert Ambrogi
Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:35:40 GMT
It's here. And I'm disappointed. It's not just that the iPad failed to live up to its hype (which was just short of ending world hunger, curing...
It's here. And I'm disappointed. It's not just that the iPad failed to live up to its hype (which was just short of ending world hunger, curing disease and raising the dead). It's that the iPad doesn't change the world, no matter how many times Steve Jobs says "advanced," "revolutionary," "magical" and "unbelievable." It's certainly no savior for newspapers. What are you going to...
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yelvington
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:15:15 GMT
The new Augusta Chronicle website is now live, the latest in a series of conversions of Morris websites to a Drupal-based system. Before and after...
The new Augusta Chronicle website is now live, the latest in a series of conversions of Morris websites to a Drupal-based system. Before and after As I mentioned last week, there's a companion mobile-optimized site for smartphones, and if the browser detection is working properly, you'll go to http://m.chronicle.augusta.com/latest-news/2010-01-27/apple-introduces-s...
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yelvington
Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:53:49 GMT
OK, one more post about the "soft paywall" concept and then I'll move on to something else. Paid-content discussions tend to be dominated by...
OK, one more post about the "soft paywall" concept and then I'll move on to something else. Paid-content discussions tend to be dominated by religious wars -- declarations of belief, not fact -- so I want to do what I can to inject some facts when I can. As I've pointed out repeatedly, averages are useless and segmentation is essential if we're going to understand human behavior...
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yelvington
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 00:48:56 GMT
Pretty much everybody who's talking seriously these days about asking users to pay for news content is pointing at the same model: Leave the website...
Pretty much everybody who's talking seriously these days about asking users to pay for news content is pointing at the same model: Leave the website open to casual visitors, but require heavy users to sign up as paying customers. Let people see perhaps half a dozen stories a month, but if they show signs of high interest, present them with a bill for the content they're...
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yelvington
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:25:05 GMT
Point #2 of my Seven simple thoughts about the Mobile Web was " Your old website should Just Work. ... When someone wants to use your website from a
Point #2 of my Seven simple thoughts about the Mobile Web was " Your old website should Just Work. ... When someone wants to use your website from a mobile browser for whatever reason, including following a link that someone sent them through Twitter, it should detect the user's browser and deliver an appropriately formatted page." style="display:inline; float:right;padding:
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yelvington
Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:03:49 GMT
Something has gone wrong here and the connection between the database of posts and blog has been disrupted. Not sure whether it’s a server problem or...
Something has gone wrong here and the connection between the database of posts and blog has been disrupted. Not sure whether it’s a server problem or if I was hacked. Thankfully, I have a backup of the database, so at worst I lose a week’s worth of posts. I’ll try to get everything back on line when [...]
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