February 2011
Where the Women At? →
futurejournalismproject:
Via the NY Times:
In 10 short years, Wikipedia has accomplished some remarkable goals. More than 3.5 million articles in English? Done. More than 250 languages? Sure.
But another number has proved to be an intractable obstacle for the online encyclopedia: surveys suggest that less than 15 percent of its hundreds of thousands of contributors are women.
About a year...
“When social search surpasses Google-type spam-ridden search, Google will end up...”
– @chrisfahey/Christopher Fahey
January 2011
“The biggest design decision I’ve made is more of a continuous philosophy: do as...”
– Rands In Repose: Interview: Marco Arment (via msg)
@johnv at our office showed us the value of producing features/services within our impact horizon. If we determine a project will take longer to launch then we can guarentee it will have an affect on our business then we do not do it. Turns out you...
“appML is an HTML extension specifically designed for web-based apps.”
– appML (via johnallsopp)
Performance Calendar » High-Performance Mobile →
Fortunately, the latest browsers on these devices have CSS media queries, which allow developers to target browsers according to a variety of factors, including screen width. Here’s some sample CSS that delivers one of two versions of an image, depending on the screen size:
/* Screens bigger than 480px */
@media only screen and (min-device-width: 481px) {
#header { background-image:...
Shadowflux: JavaScript ( (__ = !$ + $)[+$] + ({} +... →
($=[$=[]][(__=!$+$)[_=-~-~-~$]+({}+$)[_/_]+ ($$=($_=!''+$)[_/_]+$_[+$])])()[__[_/_]+__ [_+~$]+$_[_]+$$](_/_)
Care to guess what that does?
No, no I don’t care to guess. …Initial denial aside, it’s a very interesting post, shared by the folks atJavaScriptWeekly. Just subscribe to their free newsletter, lest this becomes like Radar+Nat and I find myself reblogging most of...
WatchGood for the Goose, good for propaganda: China steals Top Gun clip | World news | The Guardian
Via @adactio, who noted: “The first half of this headline is the best I’ve ever read”. The rest is pretty great, too. Love the anecdote at the end.
Comcast takes control of NBC Universal - Business... →
NBC’s “30 Rock” on Thursday night spoofed Comcast’s impending takeover from General Electric Co. As a clock bell sounded, a neon “GE” atop an office building fizzled out and was replaced by a “K” inside a swoosh resembling Comcast’s logo.
“Wow, out with GE, in with Kabletown,” said Tina Fey’s character, Liz Lemon....
The future of app stores - QuirksBlog →
WatchLean UX: Getting out of the deliverables business
Al Jazeera Releases Egypt Coverage Under Creative... →
producermatthew:
pantslessprogressive:
This is wonderful.
This is not unprecedented. Al Jazeera and RT have been known to release television footage under Creative Commons.
Eric Meyer: Border Imaging →
Messing around with CSS3 and border images. I can see the interest, though I almost hope it is not fixed anytime soon.
And, a follow-up: Eric Meyer: Border Imaging Redux
How Facebook Ships Code « FrameThink →
So it’s not easy for outsiders to see how Facebook is able to innovate and optimize their service so much more effectively than other companies. In my own attempt as an outsider to understand more about how Facebook operates, I assembled these observations over a period of months. Out of respect for the privacy of my sources, I’ve removed all names and mention of specific features/products....
Future Journalism Project: If Demand Media Ran The... →
futurejournalismproject:
On the day of Demand Media’s $1.5 Billion Wall Street IPO, Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Land applies the content farm’s SEO-heavy editorial techniques to the front page of The New York Times.
One of the secrets to Demand Media’s success is paying close attention to what people are…
bestkungfu weblog » Facebook needs accessibility... →
@mattmay lays it all out.
Apple revamps its public website using HTML5 →
How Facebook Killed (Most) Spam Using Smart... →
infoneer-pulse:
Specifically, the system tracks whether recipients hide certain messages or mark them as spam, or whether they click “Like” on the message or comment on it, or whether they actually click through to see the application itself. “Using a bunch of signals like that, we’re able to infer the likelihood that something is a high-quality message,” Taylor said. Or, alternatively, if it...
“The widespread availability of good digital cameras, the diffusion of the skills...”
– The Story Behind Last Night’s Iconic Photo From the Egyptian Protests - Alexis Madrigal - Technology - The Atlantic (via interestingsnippets)
Dave Winer: How can universities educate... →
The Huffduffer Hotline →
adactio:
After seeing (and hearing) what Brian was doing at History Hack Day, I decided I’d have to have a play with Tropo. Like Twilio, it’s a service that allows you to build voice-activated apps…
“We should learn a few things from the problems we’ve had with gameification and...”
– Ben Bashford - Notebook of Things - Emoticomp (via adactio)
How missing links hurt online news, part 1 |... →
“Within any device class, there’s still a lot of variation -especially in display...”
– LukeW | Device Classes & Responsive Design
“At last year’s D9 conference Steve Ballmer dismissed the iPad as “just another...”
– Inside Apple’s numbers | Monday Note
Also notable:
Last quarter’s iPad revenue, $4.6B, is almost as large as the Mac’s $5.4B… and this is after only nine months while the Mac will soon be 27 years old. …
The 10-Q also gives us revenue-per-unit:
• $629 for each iPad • $649 per iPhone
WatchjQuery Events Tutorial | Think Vitamin
Media queries, viewport width, scrollbars, and... →
24 ways: Compose to a Vertical Rhythm →
Still excellent.
“I don’t know how many times I’ve tracked down someone who’s sent a vile or nasty...”
– Jeff Pearlman tracks down a troll for a chat.
Tracking down my online haters - CNN.com (via hellbox)
Engine Yard: Front-end Maintainability with Sass... →
sushiandrobots:
Check out my recent post at the Engine Yard blog regarding how the user experience team is working with Sass and Style guides. If you’re doing something similar, I would love to know your thoughts on it. (It’d be great if you commented there instead of here so that I have one central place to look for feedback).
LivingSocial, Amazon and profit
Having read at a swath of retrospective analysis, I’m going to wrap-up my thoughts on the LivingSocial + Amazon gift card promotion earlier this week (I did threaten to do so). As that NYT article notes, neither Amazon nor LivingSocial disclosed how much the deal cost. Yet Amazon is a $175M investor in LivingSocial and the scale of the deal was ridiculous.
A few things stand out in the...
“Web Workers are, undoubtedly, the coolest new feature to arrive in the latest...”
– John Resig - Computing with JavaScript Web Workers (via johnallsopp)
Google search and search engine spam →
infoneer-pulse:
Today, English-language spam in Google’s results is less than half what it was five years ago, and spam in most other languages is even lower than in English. However, we have seen a slight uptick of spam in recent months, and while we’ve already made progress, we have new efforts underway to continue to improve our search quality.
Just as a reminder, webspam is junk you see in...