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Back in September the New York Times went from a subscription model to free for almost all of its content. The thinking being that the ad revenue from the extra pageviews would be greater than the loss in subs. The…
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US Data Center chillers not backed up by diesel generators?
Rackspace are a high-profile data centre in the US. They had a couple of outages in the last few days which have badly damaged their reputation. The main outage, according to Rackspace, happened when: at approximately 6:30 PM CST Monday,…
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Larry Lessig in action at TED
I watched Creative Commons champion Prof. Larry Lessig‘s fantastic presentation to the TED Conference earlier today in awe. How can you take a subject as potentially mind-numbing as copyright law and turn it into a standing-ovation inducing call-to-arms? Watch the…
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Popfly mashups
After Steve Clayton demoed it to me last week, I decided to try playing around with Microsoft’s Popfly. Popfly is a tool for creating Mashups in Silverlight, with a drag and drop interface. It comes with a tutorial (on right)…
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Heading to Eventoblog España
I’m headed to Eventoblog España (EBE07) in Seville on November 23rd-25th. I’m really looking forward to it, though it will be a bit daunting as most of the program is in Spanish! This is the second year this event has…
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Yahoo! no longer require a postcode if you are Irish!
I posted here previously how Yahoo! were making signing up for an account difficult if you were Irish (you had to fake a postcode and their validation code wouldn’t accept most attempts). This affects you if you want to use…
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