Dive into the archives.
- Some things I’ve liked recently
Here’s a few things I’ve come across the last few days which are pretty nifty…
The Las Vegas Sun’s weather page. Extremely clean design with lots of data but easy to read and understand unlike ours.
EveryBlock is now in LA… Watch out.
Simple Update Protocol looks like a mix between a cache and sending out [...]
- A little bit of tab clearing
Continuing to dig Guardian America
A look at the literary journal, Zyzzyva
Cloud Oriented Architecture
Dealing with a geographically distributed Memcache
NeverBlock is a Ruby library that allows developers to write non-blocking, concurrent code in a transparent manner. Meaning that you will keep coding in your traditional ways while you get the benefit of non-blocking IO operations.
Interview with Twitter’s [...]
- How-to be your own barista
The amazing barista Tumblr pointed to this great graphic. I remember Starbucks doing something similar when I worked there but this would be a great poster for the coffee fiend.
- Huffington Post Chicago
The Huffington Post Chicago site has launched and so far I’m impressed. Looks like a nice collection of opening day stories talking about the greatness of Chicago.
I found a few I liked, The Newspaper is Dead, Long Live the Newspaper, Blackhawk Down: Chicago’s Forgotten Franchise and Chicago Tribune’s Social Media Evolution.
One interesting [...]
- A Person of Interest
We were talking about the Bruce Ivins tragedy on the way back from lunch and something about it finally clicked in my brain.
Let me take a step back, I’m a big fan of Law & Order Criminal Intent. I remembered an episode that is eerily similar to this case, the one entitled, A Person [...]
- Your Weekend Reading
Bill de hÓra puts together a great list of links looking at XMPP for distributed computing.
- Trying to run CouchDB
Update: I’m happy to say I got CouchDB working with all the dependencies. In order for things to link correctly, I used the patch that DarwinPorts uses for compilation. The main change seems to be adding -install_name to the linker call. Once that was done, everything fell into place.
I’m trying to [...]
- Dog Database
We rolled out a new app last week which allows you to dive deep into the wackiness of dog owners, letting you see who names their dogs what and where they live. It’s really interesting and it’s just the start of more data-driven apps, allowing people to dig deeper.
Chrys Wu has a look at [...]
- Opening the Archives
From Dan Gillmor
First is to open the archives, with permalinks on every story in the database. Newspapers hold more of their communities’ histories and all other media put together, yet they hoard it behind a paywall that produces pathetic revenues and keeps people in the communities from using it — as they would all the [...]
- Creating a Search Engine
Rich Skrenta knows a thing or two about search engines and crawlers. Here’s his easy two step process of building your own one.
Step 1 is to copy the internet onto your cluster. Step 2 is to analyze it..
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Search is like 7 hard problems wrapped into a stack. Distributed systems, html analytics, text analytics/semantics, anti-spam, [...]
