1 month ago
philgyford : Classic-Space LEGO: content / greebling: a closer look - "Greebling" is my new favourite word. (via Infovore)
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2 month ago
Andy Baio : OpenTape, open-source Muxtape clone - nicely designed but requires PHP hosting, ruling out most Muxtape users [via]
deusx : Opentape - Add a feed, and you've got a podcast. "Opentape is a free, open-source package that lets you make and host your own mixtapes on the web. Upload songs (via web or FTP), reorder, rename, customize the style, and share what you like on other site
philgyford : Opentape - Host-your-own version of Muxtape. What happens when a centralised system is squashed by lawyers: thousands of individual versions flower around the edges. (via Infovore)
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3 month ago
philgyford : 'Grand,' but No 'Godfather' - WSJ.com - On why 'Grand Theft Auto IV' is very good but isn't great art in the way the best films are. (via Infovore)
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3 month ago
philgyford : Slides: Professional Frontend Engineering | Nate Koechley's Blog - A presentation that nicely describes a role that is close to some of what I do. Interesting to see new (in a larger scale) roles become identified and solidified. (via Infovore)
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5 month ago
philgyford : Widgetfinger - Simple Content Management for Simple Websites - Looks like an awesome thing that would be great for a huge percentage of small business websites. I was a thrown by being asked for 'Company Name' first off when creating an account though. (via Infovore)
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11 month ago
Greg Storey : "Web design is not book design, it is not poster design, it is not illustration, and the highest achievements of those disciplines are not what web design aims for." - Must read for today. All hands.
philgyford : A List Apart: Articles: Understanding Web Design - Zeldman on how too few people understand what web design is. Hence dumb flashy sites winning web design awards. (via Infovore)
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philgyford : A MySQL Abstraction Class For PHP - Sounds lovely, and probably better than the one of my own I've been using in various places for years. (via Infovore)
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12 month ago
Andy Baio : DJ Rupture defends OiNK in wake of its shutdown - he found his entire discography traded online, but found it reassuring
Rod Begbie : DEFENDING THE PIG - OINK CROAKS - Excellent article from a musician about the loss of OiNK. OiNK was run by and for music geeks -- I'd be willing to bet that CD purchasing by OiNK members is higher on average than the general population -- and primarily acted as the kind of complete musi [via] #
philgyford : Mudd up! » archive » Defending the Pig - Oink Croaks - A nice defence and obituary for Oink, by an artist whose music was shared by people on the site. (via Infovore)
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12 month ago
Simon Willison : A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins - A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins. It turns out Venn diagrams are an excellent way of illustrating joins.
Matthew M. Boedicker : better Venn diagrams of SQL joins - (via del.icio.us/popular) [via]
43folders : Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins
philgyford : Coding Horror: A Visual Explanation of SQL Joins - SQL joins as Venn diagrams (but better than the previous post on SQL joins as Venn diagrams that I read). (via Infovore)
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17 month ago
deusx : » How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning - "One of his most mindboggling skills is information management. He currently reads 622 RSS feeds a day — it used to be 1,400 feeds a day!"
kaninka.net : » How Scoble Reads 622 RSS Feeds Each Morning
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20 month ago
deusx : Reading Comprehension and other controversies « Scobleizer - Tech Geek Blogger - "There’s two separate styles of reading that I notice I’m in. One is a “grazing” style of reading where I’m just looking at the item and doing some quick pattern recognition on it."
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21 month ago
deusx : Seth's Blog: How to be Cory Doctorow - "I sat next to Cory at a conference today. It was like playing basketball next to Michael Jordan. Cory was looking at more than 30 screens a minute."
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21 month ago
deusx : StarTTY.com - "StarTTY transforms your vintage computers into personal information appliances that you'll use every day, all around your home or workplace."
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28 month ago
deusx : Eric Hayes, ehayes, -e: Attention Streams vs. The Fire Hose - "Think of an Attention Stream as a way of noticing all of the steps you take to gather and consume information."
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36 month ago
deusx : Re-engineering life interruptions | InfoWorld | Column | 2005-10-26 | By Jon Udell - "If living in a state of continuous partial attention is the permanent new reality, let’s engineer our interruptions to be subtle, natural, and pleasing to the senses."
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