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Four short links: 22 October 2009

By Nat Torkington
October 22, 2009

Eight Billion Minutes Spent on Facebook Daily -- you weren't using that cognitive surplus, were you? How We Made Github Fast -- high-level summary is that the new "fast, good, cheap--pick any two" is "fast, new, easy--pick any two". (via Simon Willison) Isaac Mao, China, 40M Blogs and Counting -- Today, there are 40 million bloggers in China and...

Review of Guobin Yang's "Power of the Internet in China"

By Andy Oram
September 30, 2009

My review of The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online, a combination of research and sociological analysis,

Four short links: 9 September 2009

By Nat Torkington
September 9, 2009

RapidSMS -- a free and open-source framework for dynamic data collection, logistics coordination and communication, leveraging basic short message service (SMS) mobile phone technology. UNICEF's mobile data collection framework, as used in Malawi and other proving grounds. (via gov2expo) Groceries -- read this and you will realize that Dan Meyer is the math teacher you wish you'd had. He...

Four short links: 23 July 2009

By Nat Torkington
July 22, 2009

Google Wave Federation Protocol -- the interesting part of Wave for me is the system for keeping databases coherent. There's a reference implementationl. I shouldn't have yelled at that Chinese guy so much -- the post that redeemed Fake Steve Jobs in my eyes. We all know that there's no fucking way in the world we should have microwave...

Four short links: 11 June 2009

By Nat Torkington
June 11, 2009

Trending Topics -- full source code for trendingtopics.org, Wikipedia trend analysis. Rails app running on the Cloudera Hadoop Distribution on EC2. (via mattb on Delicious) Graffiti from Pompeii -- I can't help but read these as Tweets. Herculaneum (on the exterior wall of a house); 10619: Apollinaris, the doctor of the emperor Titus, defecated well here (see also olde...

Four short links: 25 May 2009

By Nat Torkington
May 25, 2009

China is Logging On -- blogging 5x more popular in China than in USA, email 1/3 again as popular in USA as China. These figures are per-capita of Internet users, and make eye-opening reading. (via Glynn Moody) The Economics of Google (Wired) -- the money graf is Google even uses auctions for internal operations, like allocating servers among its...

Four short links: 16 Apr 2009

By Nat Torkington
April 16, 2009

China, databases, storage, and git: China's Complicated Internet Culture (Ethan Zuckerman) -- summary of Rebecca McKinnon's talk at the Berkman Internet Center. Democracy is complex and hard to transition to, online democracy doubly so. Rebecca questions the widespread but unjustified belief that the Great Firewall of China is all that separates Chinese citizens from the empowered liberty of the West,...

Is the European Union Finally Taking Cyber Security Seriously?

By Jeffrey Carr
April 3, 2009

After reading about the latest British concerns over cyber espionage activities occurring seemingly at will across its classified and unclassified networks, I was happy to read about this April 1, 2009 effort by the European Commission which included the following...

O'Reilly Week in Review for March 9nd, 2009

By James Turner
March 10, 2009

This week's show features a followup with Andrew 'bunnie' Huang about factory conditions in China, the O'Reilly editors talk about jailbreaking iPhones, and this week's podquiz, your chance to win a free O'Reilly book....

O'Reilly Week in Review for February 16th, 2009

By James Turner
February 17, 2009

This week's podcast includes a roundtable discussion by the editors of Microsoft's new retail initiative, excerpts of an interview with Andrew "bunnie" Huang about product design in China, as well as the weekly podquiz, your chance to score a free...

ETech Preview: Inside Factory China

By James Turner
February 12, 2009

China has become the production workhorse of the consumer electronics industry. Almost anything you pick up at a Best Buy first breathed life across the Pacific Ocean. But what is it like to shepherd a product through the design and production process? Andrew "Bunnie" Huang has done just that with the Chumby, a new internet appliance. He'll be speaking about the experience at O'Reilly's Emerging Technology conference. In an exclusive interview with Radar, he talks about the logistical and moral issues involved with manufacturing in China, as well as his take on the consumer's right to hack the hardware they purchase.

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