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BlogsVisualization of the Week: Every recorded U.S terror attack 1970-2011By Jenn WebbApril 24, 2013 The recent terror attack at the Boston Marathon prompted the Guardian’s Simon Rogers (who will soon be Twitter’s Simon Rogers) to look into the history of attacks on U.S. soil. Using data from the START Global Terrorism Database, Rogers mapped … Direct sales of ebooks in multiple languagesBy Joe WikertApril 24, 2013 O’Reilly has long been a leader in fostering community and building a direct sales channel. This week we took the next step in enhancing the customer’s direct buying experience by offering German editions for many of our ebook titles. Take … Social media’s 2.0 moment: Responsiveness beats planningBy Joshua-Michéle RossApril 24, 2013 In 2004, O’Reilly Media delivered a counter-cultural (at the time) message: The dot-com bubble had burst, but the web was here to stay as an economic and social force. The meme they coined was Web 2.0, and their manifesto was … Stop standardizing HTMLBy Simon St. LaurentApril 24, 2013 When HTML first appeared, it offered a coherent if limited vocabulary for sharing content on the newly created World Wide Web. Today, after HTML has handed off most of its actual work to other specifications, it’s time to stop worrying … Four short links: 24 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 24, 2013 Solar Energy: This is What a Disruptive Technology Looks Like (Brian McConnell) — In 1977, solar cells cost upwards of $70 per Watt of capacity. In 2013, that cost has dropped to $0.74 per Watt, a 100:1 improvement (source: The … Pre-publication samplesBy Joe WikertApril 23, 2013 This one has been nagging at me for years and I’m amazed none of the major ebook retailers offer a solution. I’m talking about the ability to pre-order an ebook sample prior to publication. Yesterday I received a bulk email … Four short links: 23 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 23, 2013 Drawscript — Processing for Illustrator. (via BERG London) Archive Team Warrior — a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive. (via Ed Vielmetti) … Yet another JavaScript book?By Elisabeth RobsonApril 23, 2013 Eric Freeman and I are writing a new book: Head First JavaScript Programming, and to go along with it, we’re creating a series of teaser videos to give you a taste of what’s coming in the book, and a chance … Tech events you don’t want to missBy Jenn WebbApril 22, 2013 Each Monday, we round up upcoming event highlights from the programming and technology space. Have an event to share? Send us a note. The Best of Fluent: Maintainable JavaScript webcast Date: 5 a.m. PT, April 24 Location: Online webcast Why … Betting on the future of the bookBy Daniel JamesApril 22, 2013 Visiting London Book Fair last week, many of the stands offered ebook technology or outsourcing for legacy format conversion services. Ebooks might seem a seductive bet to the publisher looking anxiously towards the all-digital future, but I find it hard to imagine … Why Paperight should be distributing your contentBy Joe WikertApril 22, 2013 The opening statement on Paperight’s “about” page says it all: Paperight turns any business with any printer and an Internet connection into a print-on-demand bookstore. This isn’t just about distributing content through copy shops though. Paperight helps make content available in the … Agile in Name OnlyBy James TurnerApril 22, 2013 In politics, the term RINO is used to refer to a candidate who is “Republican in Name Only,” i.e., claiming the mantle of the party, but not conforming to the platform or belief system. In software development, there’s a similar … Twisted Python: the engine of your InternetBy Jessica McKellarApril 22, 2013 I want to build a web server, a mail server, a BitTorrent client, a DNS server, or an IRC bot—clients and servers for a custom protocol in Python. And I want them to be cross-platform, RFC-compliant, testable, and deployable in … Four short links: 22 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 22, 2013 Meshlab — open source, portable, and extensible system for the processing and editing of unstructured 3D triangular meshes. HTML5 Video on iOS (Steve Souders) — While it’s true that Mobile Safari on iOS doesn’t buffer any video data as a … The Persistence of PlasticBy Edie FreedmanApril 22, 2013 For Earth Day, a look at the gift that keeps on giving. “Plastics.” That famous line from The Graduate has stuck with us for many years—and so, for better or worse, have plastics themselves. Today, plastics are in just about … The post The Persistence of Plastic appeared first on Animals. Simpler workflow tools enable the rapid deployment of modelsBy Ben LoricaApril 21, 2013 Data science often depends on data pipelines, that involve acquiring, transforming, and loading data. (If you’re fortunate most of the data you need is already in usable form.) Data needs to be assembled and wrangled, before it can be visualized … A different take on data skepticismBy Beau CroninApril 19, 2013 Recently, the Mathbabe (aka Cathy O’Neil) vented some frustration about the pitfalls in applying even simple machine learning (ML) methods like k-nearest neighbors. As data science is democratized, she worries that naive practitioners will shoot themselves in the foot because … Publishing News: Crowdfunding, the new way to raise money for newsBy Jenn WebbApril 19, 2013 Fundraising for news Mathew Ingram reports this week on one entrepreneurial blogger and journalist who, finding local news coverage of his home town lacking, crowdfunded his own hyper-local news blog. Ingram notes that Joey Coleman does not have a journalism … Strata Week: Movers and shakers on the data journalism frontBy Jenn WebbApril 19, 2013 Reuters launches Connected China, Pew instructs on downloading its data, and Twitter gets a data editor Yue Qiu and Wenxiong Zhang took a look this week at a data journalism effort by Reuters, the Connected China visualization application. Qiu and … Four short links: 19 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 19, 2013 Bruce Sterling on Disruption — If more computation, and more networking, was going to make the world prosperous, we’d be living in a prosperous world. And we’re not. Obviously we’re living in a Depression. Slow first 25% but then it … Finding and telling data-driven stories in billions of tweetsBy Alex HowardApril 18, 2013 Twitter has hired its first data editor. Simon Rogers, one of the leading practitioners of data journalism in the world, will join Twitter. He will be moving his family from London to San Francisco and applying his skills to telling data-driven … Commerce Weekly: Amazon patent indicates its interest in the payments spaceBy Jenn WebbApril 18, 2013 Editor’s note: This will be the final installment of our Commerce Weekly series. Mobile payments security, privacy concerns rise; Amazon may have a solution The race is on to democratize mobile payments, to create a solution that improves the payment … What is probabilistic programming?By Beau CroninApril 18, 2013 Probabilistic programming languages are in the spotlight. This is due to the announcement of a new DARPA program to support their fundamental research. But what is probabilistic programming? What can we expect from this research? Will this effort pay off? How long … We need incognito book purchasingBy François Joseph de KermadecApril 18, 2013 In the physical realm, purchasing a book without revealing one’s identity involves little effort beyond proceeding to a store one does not usually patronise and paying in cash. Unless one is seeking illegal volumes, which are unlikely to be obtained … Do’s and Don’t's for Changing the Ratio in TechBy Suzanne AxtellApril 18, 2013 You’ve probably heard of Etsy, the bustling online marketplace for crafters and artists. You probably wouldn’t be surprised to learn that most of its customers are women, both buyers and sellers. Ditto that the Etsy team is a pretty good representation … Sprinting toward the future of JamaicaBy Alex HowardApril 18, 2013 Creating the conditions for startups to form is now a policy imperative for governments around the world, as Julian Jay Robinson, minister of state in Jamaica’s Ministry of Science, Technology, Energy and Mining, reminded the attendees at the “Developing the … Four short links: 18 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 18, 2013 The Well Deserved Fortune of Satoshi Nakamoto — I can’t assure with 100% certainty that the all the black dots are owned by Satoshi, but almost all are owned by a single entity, and that entity began mining right from … Building native apps from JavaScript using TitaniumBy Andy OramApril 18, 2013 In this interview, the author of Titanium: Up and Running describes how Titanium can be used to generate native mobile apps from JavaScript code. He distinguishes the Titanium platform from native API programming and from other popular JavaScript platforms for … Visualization of the Week: Commuting ParisBy Jenn WebbApril 17, 2013 The team at Dataveyes has launched its latest project, Metropolitain.io, an interactive map visualizing the Paris metro system. Using data provided by Autonomous Operator of Parisian Transports (RATP) and from Isokron, the team visualized the metro system from both a … Accessible user interfacesBy Everett ZufeltApril 17, 2013 For readers in a digital age, interaction with content is ubiquitous. We no longer interact with content through paper, e-readers, or tailored apps alone, but via millions of digital products and web properties designed to streamline our consumption. In recent … Will JavaScript take over the programming world?By Simon St. LaurentApril 17, 2013 Last July, I had to give an impromptu talk. What came out, much to my surprise, was roughly “JavaScript will dominate the programming world.” I didn’t say that JavaScript would dominate through sheer popularity – JavaScript may in fact top … Four short links: 17 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 17, 2013 Computer Software Archive (Jason Scott) — The Internet Archive is the largest collection of historical software online in the world. Find me someone bigger. Through these terabytes (!) of software, the whole of the software landscape of the last 50 … HTML5 makes offline web apps possibleBy Jenn WebbApril 16, 2013 With advances in HTML5, web apps no longer require an Internet connection — thanks to HTML5′s support of client-side storage, web apps now can run offline in today’s browsers. “An HTML5 offline application is simply a website that has been … Author (R)evolution Day videos now availableBy Joe WikertApril 16, 2013 If you missed TOC’s first Author (R)evolution Day you missed a lot. Cory Doctorow kicked things off and more than 20 speakers followed with terrific presentations on marketing, audience development, choosing service providers, and my favorite topic, data. The room … What is probabilistic programming?By Beau CroninApril 16, 2013 Probabilistic programming languages are in the spotlight. This is due to the announcement of a new DARPA program to support their fundamental research. But what is probabilistic programming? What can we expect from this research? Will this effort pay off? How long … Software Tools for Conservation BiologistsBy Corey BradshawApril 16, 2013 Given the popularity of certain prescriptive posts on ConservationBytes.com, I thought it prudent to compile a list of software that my lab and I have found particularly useful over the years. This list is not meant to be comprehensive, but … The post Software Tools for Conservation Biologists appeared first on Animals. Four short links: 16 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 16, 2013 Triage — iPhone app to quickly triage your email in your downtime. See also the backstory. Awesome UI. Webcam Pulse Detector — I was wondering how long it would take someone to do the Eulerian video magnification in real code. … Velocity Report: Building a DevOps cultureBy Mandi WallsApril 16, 2013 Operations professionals live in a wind tunnel. If you can imagine one of those game show glass boxes, where a contestant stands inside, the door shuts, and money blows around in a whirlwind, you’ve got a good idea of what … Designing resilient communitiesBy Andy OramApril 15, 2013 In the open source and free software movement, we always exalt community, and say the people coding and supporting the software are more valuable than the software itself. Few communities have planned and philosophized as much about community-building as ZeroMQ. … Why I created a Flipboard magazineBy Joe WikertApril 15, 2013 Flipboard recently announced the ability for anyone to become a publisher on their platform. Within two weeks 500,000+ magazines were created. I created one of those and I’d like to tell you why. Before I do that though, let me tell … Homo abudantia: From Oldowan to UbiquityBy Corey PressmanApril 15, 2013 [This is the first in a series of articles intended to identify key watershed moments in the history of content and container. Our intent is to frame the current moment in this story so that we may better understand the … Upward Mobility: Automating iOS builds with JenkinsBy James TurnerApril 15, 2013 One of the pleasant surprises I learned last year at WWDC is that Apple uses Jenkins to automated their iOS app builds. Since we were already using Jenkins to do the same thing at the Day Job, it was a … Four short links: 15 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 15, 2013 Know Your HTTP Posters (GitHub) — A0-posters about the HTTP protocol. Crowdserfing — when a large corp uses crowd-sourced volunteering for its own financial gain, without giving back. It offends my sense of reciprocity as well, but nobody is coerced … Single server systems can tackle big dataBy Ben LoricaApril 13, 2013 About a year ago a blog post from SAP posited1 that when it comes to analytics, most companies are in the multi-terabyte range: data sizes that are well-within the scope of distributed in-memory solutions like Spark, SAP HANA, ScaleOut Software, … Four steps to analyzing big data with SparkBy O'Reilly StrataApril 12, 2013 By Andy Konwinski, Ion Stoica, and Matei Zaharia In the UC Berkeley AMPLab, we have embarked on a six year project to build a powerful next generation big data analytics platform: the Berkeley Data Analytics Stack (BDAS). We have already … Strata Week: Court case sheds light on FBI stingray surveillanceBy Jenn WebbApril 12, 2013 FBI and IRS push privacy envelope Details about how the FBI uses stingray or IMSI-catcher technology — and how much more intrusive it is than previously known — have come to light in a tax fraud case against accused identity … Publishing News: Democratized publishing and the digital divideBy Jenn WebbApril 12, 2013 Will rise in self-publishing leave world’s digital have-nots behind? Barnes & Noble announced this week it has upgraded and rebranded its PubIt! self-publishing platform and is launching Nook Press to better compete against platforms such as Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. … Newbie author rediscovers his natural aversion to all things bureaucraticBy Michael DaughertyApril 12, 2013 Last week I talked about putting pen to paper, or keystrokes to Microsoft Word, and all the behind the scenes work that involved. When I felt I had no clue what I was doing, I remembered what my developmental editor … The Fluent Online Conference PreviewBy Simon St. LaurentApril 12, 2013 As JavaScript and the Web connect more and more technologies, conversations grow broader and broader. While the Fluent conference is large enough to cover a broad range, we created a sampler of topics for the two-hour online conference I hosted … Four short links: 12 April 2013By Nat TorkingtonApril 12, 2013 Wikileaks ProjectK Code (Github) — open-sourced map and graph modules behind the Wikileaks code serving Kissinger-era cables. (via Journalism++) Plan Your Digital Afterlife With Inactive Account Manager — you can choose to have your data deleted — after three, six, … 101 to 150 of 11215 Prev Next |
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