@mattmcalister
- just added video assets, homepage lineup, editor's picks and more new features to the @openplatform Content API: http://bit.ly/cWvBi7 3 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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- 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: November 2008
Hacking BNP data
Less than a week after trying out some new data mapping concepts at Guardian Hack Day, a big pile of data appeared on the Internet begging to be mapped. Using some of their new skills and a convenient constituency data … Continue reading
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Tagged BNP, constituency, data tool, hack, innovators, journalism, mapping concepts, postcodes, simon willison, wikipedia
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Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian
We hosted our first Hack Day last week at The Guardian. Amazing fun. Here’s a 15min highlight reel: We did a lot of the standard stuff that makes Hack Day so interesting, but there were a few innovations to the … Continue reading
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Tagged database tool, free hacks, free subscriptions, ghack1, hack, hackday, hardcopy, hardware hacks, london, projectors, simon willison, submission queue, the guardian, trophies
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Celebrating in the streets of San Francisco
Off topic here, but this video is worth sharing. My wife and I decided to take a stroll after the election speeches. We were heading for a pub but got sidetracked by all the noise in the streets of San … Continue reading
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Tagged cheers and chants, cheers chants, election speeches, funny, girling, jubilation, obama, party, politics, san francisco, sfbay guardian, sharing my wife, streets of san francisco, tim redmond, video
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