Music Industry, Subscribe to Me, Pipe Progress, and Modern Careers
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| +Nat Torkington | 25 May 2012
- Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss -- transcript of a thoughtful music industry insider considering the effect of the net on the business. The other problem? I’ve been expecting for years now to see aggregate revenue flowing to artist increase. Disintermediation promised us this. It hasn’t happened. Everywhere I look artists seem to be working more for less money. And every time I come across aggregate data that is positive it turns out to have a black cloud inside. Example: Touring revenues up since 1999. Because more bands are touring, staying on the road longer and playing for fewer people. Surely you all can see Malthusian trajectory?
- Kottke on Quarterly -- I eyed TED's book club and thought "hmm, interesting business model: you like my taste, sign up and I'll send you things". Quarterly is a "my taste as a service" service. (via Sacha Judd)
- Pipe Viewer -- clever little command-line utility to show progress of pipes.
- Sheryl Sandberg's HBS Class Day Speech -- two things stood out, beyond the honesty of the talk: If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat (that's her quoting Eric Schmidt) and [careers] are not a ladder; they’re a jungle gym (her quoting Facebook's head of HR). (via Sacha Judd)
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A visualization tool from the OECD, concerns about open data and research, and updates to Hadoop.
by Audrey Watters
| @audreywatters
| +Audrey Watters | 24 May 2012
In this week's data news, a visualization tool charts your "better life," researchers have concerns about access to data, and updates to Hadoop.
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Michael Maness on why data science research matters and how the Knight News Challenge is adapting.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| +Alex Howard | 24 May 2012
Big data and open data are attracting big notice: The Knight Foundation is funding data journalism research at Columbia and has chosen "data" as the next theme for its News Challenge.
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Maker Tribe, Concept Mapping, Magic Wand, and Site Performance Matters
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| +Nat Torkington | 24 May 2012
- Last Saturday My Son Found His People at the Maker Faire -- aww to the power of INFINITY.
- Dictionaries Linking Words to Concepts (Google Research) -- Wikipedia entries for concepts, text strings from searches and the oppressed workers down the Text Mines, and a count indicating how often the two were related.
- Magic Wand (Kickstarter) -- I don't want the game, I want a Bluetooth magic wand. I don't want to click the OK button, I want to wave a wand and make it so! (via Pete Warden)
- E-Commerce Performance (Luke Wroblewski) -- If a page load takes more than two seconds, 40% are likely to abandon that site. This is why you should follow Steve Souders like a hawk: if your site is slower than it could be, you're leaving money on the table.
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Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel and CTO Todd Park say open data will be the new default.
by Alex Howard
| @digiphile
| +Alex Howard | 23 May 2012
The nation's top information technology officials introduced a bold new strategy for 21st century digital government that is built upon data, shared services, citizen-centrism and hews to consistent methodologies for privacy and security.
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Complex Exploit, Better Coding Tools, Online Coding Tools, and DIY 3D-Printed Dolls
by Nat Torkington
| @gnat
| +Nat Torkington | 23 May 2012
- Tale of Two Pwnies (Chromium Blog) -- So, how does one get full remote code execution in Chrome? In the case of Pinkie Pie’s exploit, it took a chain of six different bugs in order to successfully break out of the Chrome sandbox. Lest you think all attacks come from mouth-breathing script kiddies, this is how the pros do it. (via Bryan O'Sullivan)
- The Future is Specific (Chris Granger) -- In traditional web-MVC, the code necessary to serve a single route is spread across many files in many different folders. In a normal editor this means you need to do a lot of context switching to get a sense for everything going on. Instead, this mode replaces the file picker with a route picker, as routes seem like the best logical unit for a website. There's a revolution coming in web dev tools: we've had the programmer adapting to the frameworks with little but textual assistance from the IDE. I am loving this flood of creativity because it has the promise to reduce bugs and increase the speed by which we generate good code.
- Best Online Editors For Teaching HTML/CSS/JS (Pamela Fox) -- Over the past few months, I've been teaching in-person classes on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, as part of GirlDevelopIt San Francisco. Along the way, I've experimented with various online consoles and editors, and I thought I'd share my experience with using them for teaching.
- Makie -- design a doll online, they'll 3d-print and ship it to you. Hello, future of manufacturing, fancy seeing you in a dollhouse!
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