May 2009
May 1st
April 2009
Nizm: A Video Portal for People with Taste →
If your taste in online video-watching goes beyond the viral videos of mass appeal that include things like this drugged-up kid, Where the hell is Matt?, or even the latest internet…
Apr 28th
New York-sized ice cap collapses off Antarctica →
Global warming blamed as northern front of Wilkins Ice Shelf becomes unstable
Apr 28th
Swine flu and the dramatisation of disease →
Recent events show that, while society has the scientific know-how to cope with outbreaks of flu, it still sees disease as a harbinger of apocalypse.
Apr 28th
NYC financial workers see low-flying planes, panic http://ping.fm/E0m2C
Apr 27th
Geithner pushes for more money for IMF lending http://ping.fm/IQawJ
Apr 25th
Copyright law and the digital library -... →
Here’s an interesting article at E-Research Library, by Cynthia Gillespie. This is a short excerpt: In order for an all-digital library to truly exist, research materials will have to be…
Apr 23rd
A moment of silence for GeoCities →
Ten years after Yahoo! acquired GeoCities for a paltry $4 billion, the (in)famous free hosting site is being put to rest. It’s been a long time since I visited a Geocities site that…
Apr 23rd
Canwest in trouble: $4b in debt, failing to uphold restructuring http://ping.fm/8BoLD
Apr 21st
04 Pedal Pusher.mp3 http://ping.fm/UX89p via drop.io
Apr 20th
The COUP: http://drop.io/s0vspr5 5 Million Ways to Kill a CEO & Pimps!
Apr 20th
Windows washer: Meet Microsoft’s antidote to Vista http://ping.fm/raBQR
Apr 19th
AP IMPACT: Tons of released drugs taint US water http://ping.fm/oeCtw
Apr 19th
US looks to hackers to protect cyber networks http://ping.fm/kKHoS
Apr 18th
Wendy McNeil http://ping.fm/bHyBr iqdupont.com
Apr 17th
Reading The New Atlantis: Obama and the Stem Cell Policy http://ping.fm/eiDBi
Apr 16th
MapReduce vs. SQL: It’s Not One or the Other →
A study released today by a team of leading database experts, among them Structure 09 speaker Michael Stonebraker, has been generating buzz for its assertion that clustered SQL database…
Apr 15th
MapReduce vs. SQL: It’s Not One or the Other →
A study released today by a team of leading database experts, among them Structure 09 speaker Michael Stonebraker, has been generating buzz for its assertion that clustered SQL database…
Apr 15th
Google data centers http://ping.fm/smaKG iqdupont.com
Apr 11th
How Facebook Runs Its LAMP Stack →
prostoalex writes “At QCon San Francisco, Aditya Agarwal of Facebook described how his employer runs its software stack (video and slides). Facebook runs a typical LAMP setup where P stands for PHP…
Apr 11th
Communicative capitalism: spectacle is in, counterhegemony is out http://ping.fm/9nQ8I
Apr 10th
YouTube, Universal Music Group form music venture http://ping.fm/ksORi
Apr 10th
Motorola calls former CFO “treacherous officer” http://ping.fm/oYsKh
Apr 10th
“Schmidt commended newspapers for staking claim on the internet in the 1990s but...”
– Newspapers should keep counting on advertising, Google CEO says
Apr 8th
NIN iPhone app coming soon http://ping.fm/rXwAF
Apr 7th
Slipstream - It’s a Digital Book, and a Video, and... →
Vook tries to address a big problem for book publishers as they expand onto digital formats. For all the hype and initial success of devices like the Kindle, they threaten to strip traditional books of much of their transpo
Apr 6th
AP sources: Sun deal cloudy after IBM pulls offer http://ping.fm/iozKM
Apr 5th
Signs of epistemic distruption
The first breaking point is in business models — the unsustainable costs and inefficiencies of traditional commercial publishing, the rise of open access and the challenge of developing sustainable publishing models. The second potential breaking point is the credibility of the peer review system: its accountability, its textual practices, the validity of its measures and its exclusionary network...
Apr 4th
Hulu encrypts its HTML to fend off Boxee … again http://ping.fm/vbI8h
Apr 3rd
London Calling →
Apr 2nd
London G20 protest turns deadly →
Police say man dies after collapsing as protesters target banks on eve of summit.
Apr 2nd
London G20 protest turns deadly →
Police say man dies after collapsing as protesters target banks on eve of summit.
Apr 2nd
Apr 1st