@mattmcalister
- just added video assets, homepage lineup, editor's picks and more new features to the @openplatform Content API: http://bit.ly/cWvBi7 4 hrs ago
- celebrating our youngest's 1st bday. the baby years are finally coming to a close for us all. very happy. 5 days ago
- Time's Top 50: 'as other British newspapers go behind paywalls, the Guardian opens up its content for developers' http://is.gd/eDIUy 6 days ago
- inspiring essay on purpose in business by Gary Hamel http://instapaper.com/zkmpos51n 1 week ago
- gave my blog a refresh while fixing security holes. now need a good picture for the header. http://www.mattmcalister.com/blog/ 1 week ago
- congrats, Don! “@donlbe: just joined @typekit.” 1 week ago
- tweaked my twitter lists a bit to see how paper.li will react. this is becoming a good read now http://paper.li/mattmcalister/noticers 1 week ago
- good fun yesterday w guardian tech team at Bletchley Park and then Inception. thanks @leftback! 1 week ago
- turning diminishing returns into increasing returns and other great insights by @jhagel on new ways of working http://bit.ly/azZ8yU 2 weeks ago
- the web is more like an awkward teenager with cuter younger sibblings than something fading into oblivion: http://bit.ly/aMLHBy 2 weeks ago
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- Paper.li: Guardian Technology – now available as a newspaper, online!
- Video highlights from Activate 2010
- How to hail a London cabbie using Twitter
- Republishing articles from ProPublica
- Behind the scenes of the Open Platform’s evolution
- Socially linked data
- Positioning real-time web platforms
- The thinking behind the Activate Summit event
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Monthly Archives: April 2006
Advertising irrelevance
Lots of laughs this week over the advertisements for hemorrhoid remedies on my site. I don’t know what that says about my posts. One person asked what that said about my audience. The poor click-throughs suggest people who actually visit … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, funny
Tagged advertisements, advertising, audience, click throughs, comfortable chairs, hemorrhoid remedies, lots of laughs
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MySpace reinvented email
Somebody recently referred to MySpace as “Outlook for teenagers”. Wow, what an interesting way to visualize the paradigm shift. I had trouble grasping why it was that kids were referring to their MySpace experience using phrases that imply addiction, but … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, email, identity, myspace, socialnetworks
Tagged check mail, goodbye and good luck, google, google yahoo, mail button, mashups, mike butcher, paradigm shift, referrer logs, true one
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The SF Chronicle uses blogs and ancient history to improve their print product
The San Francisco Chronicle has been doing some really innovative things recently. They’ve begun printing blog entries from their web site in the daily print edition. It’s good reading that rounds out the wire stories nicely. Every print publisher should … Continue reading
Posted in blogging, journalism, print, publishing, sfchronicle
Tagged 100 years, ancient history, bandage, innovative things, life in 1906, rio grande, san francisco chronicle, san frncisco, sf chronicle, tidbit
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Copyright challenges when users are creating your content
The ongoing joke about the Internet is that the new successful business models, technology advances and creative breakthroughs always come from two market sectors: games and porn. The most important breakthrough I’ve seen in a long time cuts across all … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, games, secondlife
Tagged according to the rules, business models, copyright infringement, creative breakthroughs, game operator, market sectors, scaleable systems, second life, time cuts, youtube
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Switching to a new host and blog platform
I’m moving from Blogharbor to WordPress to publish this blog. I’ve been procrastinating this job for months, but it’s time for a little Spring cleaning. Apologies if the feed gets messed up or if things look weird.
Posted in All
Tagged apologies, blog, blogharbor, job, little spring, moving, spring cleaning
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Social search and molecular biology parallels
Steve Burbeck’s meaty “Multicellular Computing” paper has a lot of lessons that can be derived for any personal perspective. It made me think that we’re just scratching the surface of the many ways information discovery can be made more efficient … Continue reading
Posted in All
Tagged burbeck, information discovery, john battelle, necessary quantity, personal perspective, powerful systems, rich mac, scratching the surface, social search, water molecules
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The problem with being popular
Several people have complained about the quality of the content that comes out of a site like Digg, a site that captures popular consensus to reflect back to its participants what matters at any given moment. I actually agree with … Continue reading →