@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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- Captivating Arcade Fire video shows what HTML5 can do
- Understanding your behaviors to prioritize your inbox
- 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: May 2007
How to fix building construction bureaucracy
Sometimes I forget to step outside of our little bubble here and see how people use or in fact don’t use the Internet. When I get that chance I often wonder if anything I’m doing in my career actually matters … Continue reading
Posted in business, collaboration, community, construction, data, design, development, government, how to, ideas, innovation, manufacturing, peer production, san francisco
Tagged building inspector, building planning, demolition debris, desired effect, food shelter, friends and neighbors, great potential, internet market, natural inclination, things that matter
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Crime data stories
My Potrero Hill neighbors tell me that the sweet song of crackling firearms in the evening always begins again in May as the days get longer, hotter and schoolless. Recently, I witnessed a sample of the gun play happening in … Continue reading
Posted in 94107, chicago, crime, data, denver, design, guns, law, maps, mashups, new orleans, politics, potrero hill, visualization
Tagged 9mm pistol, bullet shells, crime data, gun play, hill neighbors, san francisco police, san francisco police department, two bullets, two guns, web data formats
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IDG does the right thing
For a company that avoids PR so actively, IDG has recently launched itself onto the media stage with great vigor. The closure of InfoWorld magazine a month ago signalled the end of an era across the magazine market, and then … Continue reading
StartupCamp
A few of us went to the Startup Camp unconference yesterday in San Francisco representing YDN’s development tools and services. What a hoot. Some of the startup ideas were really interesting, a few were promising but clearly still cooking, and … Continue reading
Posted in entrepreneur, events, startupcamp
Tagged david berlind, entrepreneurial spirit, having a good time, mass events, own destiny, plain silly, startup camp, startup ideas, traffic sources, zdnet
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Ziff Davis sells its mission statement
Paul Conley rants on Ziff Davis for their latest breach of journalistic ethics. They’ve gone so far as to sell the very text of their editorial mission statement to advertisers. Check out this screenshot: “If you want to see the … Continue reading