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- links for 2008-04-30
Tikun Olam-???? ????: Comment is Free, Wikipedia, and Why Blogs ‘Don’t Get No Respect’
Richard Silverstein’s happy to be joining the CiF roster, and makes some interesting points about validation of expertise - or otherwise - in this new world
(tags: blogging commentisfree wikipedia)
- Did AOL steal my work? I need your help…
Did AOL steal a photograph from Flickr? If you know your copyrights (or creative commons), I need your help - and others may do, too.
- links for 2008-04-28
Wired.com: Twinkle is iPhone + Twitter + location
The future has arrived, on jailbroken iPhones at least.
(tags: iphone mobile twitter)
- links for 2008-04-26
Scotland cruise | Gallery | guardian.co.uk Travel
I’ve been sitting thousands of miles away gawping at some lovely photography around the area I was brought up
(tags: boating scotland westernisles clyde)
- Fake Steve Jobs on the future of digital media
Forbes magazine journalist Dan Lyons, aka Fake Steve Jobs, has given an entertaining keynote here on the last day of Web 2.0. I think - although I may have missed someone - that he’s the only big media staffer to be given time on a stage during the event.
What he writes on his blog becomes, [...]
- links for 2008-04-25
Blake’s 7 is being remade for Sky One
I’m obviously wildly excited. I hope they recreate the Liberator - although it was blown up in 1980 or so. I had a model one when I was wee.
(tags: tv scifi britishtelevision lowbudget)
- links for 2008-04-24
LocationAware.org
“LocationAware’s goal is to help drive the standardization of how a user’s geolocation is exposed to a website through the browser.”
(tags: mobile geolocation standards)
- Insufferable Web 2.0 post: day one
Wired magazine’s guide to building a web 2.0 startup, likely to be getting much reading about these parts this week. Picture by wilbertbaan, used with permission granted by his Creative Commons license
I’m sat in the huge Moscone convention centre in central San Francisco, and they’re playing Robbie Robertson’s Somewhere Down That Lonely River over the PA [...]
- I was once a US Government-sanctioned journalist, you know
A footnote on the whole Mayhill Fowler thing: Mindy McAdams, writing about this story, makes the point it’s important we don’t start insisting on accreditation for “offical” journalists. “Naming who is a journalist - and who is not - is a dangerous, dangerous course to follow - and one I hope will never be pursued [...]
- Who’s a journalist, who’s not, and why it doesn’t really matter anyway
There’s been some enjoyable to-and-fro after a Obama campaign donor, Mayhill Fowler, punched the mouth she’s feeding, and made public some unguarded comments uttered by the Presidential hopeful during a fundraiser in San Francisco.
(Brief catchup: read about it all here. Obama said some midwestern voters were “bitter [...] they cling to guns or religion or [...]
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