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- 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)
- 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 [...]
- links for 2008-04-15
New York Observer Gawker Media Sells Idolator, Gridskipper; Spins Off Wonkette
Denton’s email hints at some of the challenges in building networks of specialist publications. Magazine publishers will see nothing new here, although someone somewhere will use this as proof of #pet theory
(tags: gawker nickdenton blogs)
- links for 2008-04-14
Charlie Brooker: I don’t care what Ken Livingstone does - I’ll still vote for him
“Desperate times call for desperate measures, and there’s no more desperate sign of the times than the current wave of LOL OMFG!!!! BORIS DONE A GUFF!!!! ROFL!!!!!!! THE MAN IS A LEGERND”
(tags: guardian london politics)Matt Deegan: Not Backing Boris
He can’t even [...]
- links for 2008-04-12
BuzzMachine: Customer Omega for the airlines
A fine polemic. “If there ever was a tipping point for an industry, headed down, surely the airline industry has reached that unfortunate metaphor. They’re fucked and their passengers with them.”
(tags: airlines service innovation)
- links for 2008-04-11
AppleInsider: Apple conceptualized smart MVNO system ahead of iPhone
The sound you hear as you read this story is the sound of an entire industry - the mobile network industry - clenching. Damn, but Apple know how to put the wind up their “partners”.
(tags: apple mobile iphone mvno)
- links for 2008-04-08
Eclectic boogaloo: Oh no. The Tories got in.
Jamie Milne’s brilliant piece about watching all ten hours of the BBC’s 1970 General Election coverage in 2003… finally published now, in 2008. Well worth the wait, and the read.
(tags: election70 jamiemilne)
- links for 2008-04-04
Martin Moore: The bizarre relationship between Alastair Campbell and the BBC
Why are the BBC so keen to promote Alastair Campbell? It’s a question that seems to perplex even Campbell himself
(tags: bbc alastaircampbell)
- Le very Cool indeed
[via Andrew & Ben]
I’m excited to learn of the latest Le Cool guides’ imminent arrival: four of them, including one for my adopted home city, London, as well as Madrid, Amsterdam and Lisbon. There’s been only one Le Cool book so far - Barcelona - but it’s a thing of great beauty, written by friend [...]
- links for 2008-04-01
BuzzMachine: The last portal
Jeff hails Yahoo’s new women’s portal as “born from a speadsheet rather than a vision”
(tags: yahoo shine portals)
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