January 2012
December 2011
CSS 101: Block Formatting Contexts » Yahoo! User... →
I think I understood this, first time I read it. Returning to it days (if not weeks) later, I’m not so sure. Browser-forking in how box and float layouts are applied? Just reading the spec summary is headache-inducing.
Five things we learned about publishing in 2011 -... →
How to interview a designer with the perfect... →
mikeindustries:
These sorts of tests are common for engineering hires, but it’s nice to see an example of a good design-oriented one.
Realignment.
I’ve changed corporate parentage, in an interesting turn of events. Today was my last day at msnbc.com. I start at the New York Times by February, after taking a bit of time to see family and move cross-country. Expect pretty much the same here, though the reblogged parental content* may shift from one site to another.
Please have patience: you’ll have back to your usual parade of...
“From an algorithmic perspective, the idea that style and substance are separate...”
– What bugs me about “content out” : Cennydd Bowles
State of the web: of apps, devices, and... →
Rieger and Drummond are hardly alone in feeling that “our existing standards, workflows, and infrastructure” cannot support “today’s incredibly exciting yet overwhelming world of connected digital devices” (futurefriend.ly) and that something new must be done to move the web forward. And of course ppk has been warning us about themultiplicity of platforms and viewports on mobile since 2009.
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Watchinterestingsnippets:
KLM turns journeys into movies (by AmsterdamAdBlog) … “KLM Passport app, an app that turns traveller’s journeys into movies. This film, developed by Muse, shows more or less how it works: you choose a theme (adventure, around the world, island hopping, in the snow, etc.), select the best pictures and videos on your iPhone taken during your trip, and the app creates a need...
Twitter's 2011 - the news in tweets →
pewinternet:
via guardian
FnordMetric - beautiful real-time metrics... →
thechangelog:
Paul Asmuth has released FnordMetric, a great looking tracking dashboard app that lets you measure and visualize events within your application.
FnordMetric ships with a standalone webserver, and sports a nice Ruby DSL:
# numeric (delta) gauge, 1-hour tick
gauge :messages_sent,
:tick => 1.hour.to_i,
:title => "Messages (sent) per Hour"
# on every event like { _type:...
No longer in French!...but 'dead' old content
Some kind folks on Twitter mentioned that the RSS feed for this Tumblr suddenly turned into French ads for double-paned windows in Marseilles (?). That’s now fixed—you should see this in English. (Holler if you don’t.)
A while back I changed the name of this Tumblr to be a bit clearer about its content mix. However, I forgot to consider hard-coded links like my FeedBurner RSS path...
“Of the 10 fastest-growing jobs projected by the U.S. Department of Labor, 9...”
– Forbes Woman Of The Year: Women In Tech (via courtenaybird)
“Nobody expects much from the week between Christmas and New Year’s. That’s why...”
– How To Make The Most Of The Post-Holiday Lull (via fastcompany)
Lawsuit May Determine Who Owns a Twitter Account →
infoneer-pulse:
How much is a tweet worth? And how much does a Twitter follower cost?
In base economic terms, the value of individual Twitter updates seems to be negligible; after all, what is a Twitter post but a few bits of data sent caroming through the Internet? But in a world where social media’s influence can mean the difference between a lucrative sale and another fruitless cold call,...
Insurance Against Cyber Attacks Expected to Boom →
infoneer-pulse:
Despite high-profile cyber attacks at Sony, Google, Epsilon, RSA and others this year, only a third of companies surveyed by Advisen, a research group, say they have purchased a cyber insurance policy.
Experts say that more companies will buy policies in the coming year because of new Security and Exchange Commission requirements. Last October, the S.E.C. issued a new guidance...
JavaScript-less Google (finally) - The Easy... →
John Resig - JavaScript as a First Language →
Why Kahn Academy is going to teach JS as the intro languages to their CS curriculum. Lots of interesting details about how it fits learning curves in math/science and the CS concepts.
As promised, LinkedIn sets IndexTank source free →
thechangelog:
From the LinkedIn Engineering blog:
We are proud to announce that the technology behind IndexTank has just been released as open-source software under the Apache 2.0 License! We promised to do this when LinkedIn acquired IndexTank
Both engine and service are available under the company’s GitHub profile. There is also an IndexTank LinkedIn group.
Information's Social Highways - Technology Review →
techspotlight:
On the night last spring when Osama bin Laden was killed, the chief of staff to a former U.S. secretary of defense broke the news to the world—more than an hour before President Barack Obama’s announcement. Keith Urbahn (aka
@keithurbahn) wrote to his 1,016 Twitter followers that he’d heard the news from a “reputable person.” Within a minute, 80 people had reposted the message....
Hack Tyler: Tyler Sirens: a visual police scanner →
hacktyler:
Launch Tyler Sirens »
Tyler Sirens presents nearly-up-to-the-minute incident report data from Tyler Police Department. However, if it were just that it wouldn’t be much different from the Tyler Morning Telegraph’s Police Call Map. What Tyler Sirens adds is real-time updates. If…
“The minute we start giving the middle finger to these other platforms, devices...”
– Support Vs Optimization | Brad Frost Web (via adactio)
Six Social Media Trends for 2012 - David Armano -... →
“Can I reliably trust you to tell me what is going on? If the answer is yes, then...”
– Robert Hernandez, professor of new media at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. For journalism’s future, the killer app is credibility. (via futurejournalismproject)
“We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an...”
– Dan Gillmor, Professor, Cronkite School of Journalism. 2012 will be the year of the content-controller oligopoly.
Nieman Lab is running an interesting 2012 preview series by asking prominent journalism observers what they think the upcoming year will hold.
Gillmor believes the open Internet —...
“What’s at stake is the future of the internet, and of the economy. “We want to...”
– The Right to Piracy: The Conflict Behind SOPA | Think Tank | Big Think (via infoneer-pulse)
Inside Breaking News: 7 biggest Breaking News... →
breakingblog:
It goes without saying, but it’s been an incredible news year. Here at BreakingNews, we’ve compiled the biggest breaking stories of the year — the stories that drove the biggest traffic spikes, the most @breakingnews retweets, the fastest stream of updates, the most social media reports and…
“Why you shouldn’t use MP3 in your HTML5 games”
– Why you shouldn’t use MP3 in your HTML5 games - Scirra.com (via johnallsopp)
M.I.T. Expands Free Online Courses, Offering... →
infoneer-pulse:
While students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology pay thousands of dollars for courses, the university will announce a new program on Monday allowing anyone anywhere to take M.I.T. courses online free of charge — and for the first time earn official certificates for demonstrating mastery of the subjects taught.
“There are many people who would love to augment their...
“You gently consume time.”
– Nicholas Felton, from the article ‘Designers Behind Facebook Timeline: 5 Lessons For Creating A UI With Soul’ (via fastcompany)
I like the Timelines. I dislike that frictionless sharing is the most effective way to populating them compared to more valuable actions or manual population. Timelines...
Badass JavaScript: Introducing ALAC.js: An Apple... →
badassjs:
Recently, Apple open sourced the original encoder and decoder for the Apple Lossless audio codec which is written in C/C++. ALAC is, as its name implies, a lossless codec, which means that it is compressed but does not lose any quality. When decoded, ALAC audio files are bit-for-bit identical…
“Once something is a successful feature, it can usually no longer thrive as a...”
– Why Google will become Google’s only product - Computerworld (via interestingsnippets)