@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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- 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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The cost of transparency and accountability
The MP Expenses issue is a very interesting story. There are lots of reasons why it is spreading so aggressively… in hard times people look for someone to blame for what’s wrong in the world people are learning to expect … Continue reading
Response to the Open Platform launch
The Open Platform launch earlier this month was one of the more exciting days I’ve had in a long time. We’ve done a good thing at the Guardian, and it seems we’re not alone in thinking that. Here are some … Continue reading
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Tagged api, business models, genius idea, guardian co uk, jeff jarvis, kate butler, launch, matlock, open, open api, open platform, openness, platform, pr, support developer, the guardian
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A few interesting data projects
The contagious data bug must be sweeping through the office, as several very different but very interesting data-driven publishing projects rolled out almost simultaneously. First, infographics editor Paddy Allen explains the global recession through a very elegant interactive piece “Where … Continue reading
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Tagged british airways, data, david leigh, global recession, interactive piece, interactive visualization, journalism, mikel john obi, openness, robbie keane, steven gerrard, tax avoidance, tax gap, the guardian
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Building communities from Twitter posts
I spent a little time over the last couple of weeks playing around with some Twitter data. I was noticing how several people, myself included, were sharing the funny things their kids say sometimes: “it is noisy outside. my daughter … Continue reading
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Tagged dreamhost, funny things, jon udell, little time, media features, quote of the day, ruler, texans, yahoo pipes, yardstick
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Breaking through the attention barrier
For some reason I get a bit annoyed when people write about our information overload limits. This happened the other day when I saw Seth Godin’s piece titled “Warning: The internet is almost full.” He writes: “The decentralized nature of … Continue reading
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Tagged abstraction, attention, aunt sally, based education, culture, data, decentralized nature, discovery services, human brain, information discovery, information overload, language, seth godin, theory, useless information, vast resources
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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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Why the open strategy is a good idea
The giant dotcoms and innovative Internet startups have been testing and proving approaches to openness as a strategy over the last few years. The ideas seem to have permeated some of the farther corners of the Internet now, and I … Continue reading
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Tagged api, bbc, content owners, data visualization, daylife, dotcoms, extra step, federal elections commission, innovation, Internet startups, jeff jarvis, nytimes, olympics coverage, open strategy, openness, platform, publishing, rss, strategy
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The opportunity cost of noiselessness
At minute 4:30 in LCD Soundsystem’s ‘Yr City’s A Sucker‘ a tightly bound harmonic ‘Aaah’ and the shout that arises from beneath it speaks volumes about what the media business often means to people. “What we want is what you … Continue reading