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Windmill 1.0
Windmill 1.0 Lightning Talk Movie to Blow your Mind, Journey, Web2, AJAX

News

Why Facebook shouldn’t listen to its users
http://scobleizer.com/2009/03/21/why-facebook-has-never-listened-and-why-it-definitely-wont-start-now/

Groovy on Grails Moves to GitHub
http://github.com/blog/390-groovy-on-grails-on-github

Stallman says “Free the JavaScript”
http://ajaxian.com/archives/richard-stallman-free-the-javascript

Mark Pilgrim explains the state of accessibility for content creators
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/21/accessibility-is-a-harsh-mistress

I seriously considered getting an MBA about 2 years ago, http://tbm.thebigmoney.com/articles/judgments/2009/03/25/rip-mba

I fought learning scheme in college, but we did it because that’s what MIT used, http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/link/2110/why-mit-switched-from-scheme-to-python

What does this mean for metaweb? http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Google_Adds_Semantic_Search_Technology_36198.html

http://blog.datamation.com/blog/2009/03/is-twitter-the.html

Are we going to miss china contributing to youtube? http://www.crn.com/security/216300048;jsessionid=ML1PUQFU3OIXEQSNDLRSKHSCJUNN2JVN?cid=ChannelWebCompleteFeed

IBM wants Sun, pwned. http://www.linuxinsider.com/rsstory/66572.html

TestSwarm - distributed javascript testing

Future of News

nytimes sends threats to bloggers
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/19/new-york-times-sends.html

Winer on News

• on Future of News
  http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/21/theFutureNewsSystemOfTheWo.html
• on Twitter as a news platform
  http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/25/whyItMattersThatTwitterIsA.html

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Adam and Matt at SXSW last week.

Mikeal falls in love with Greasemonkey.

News

IE 8 released today
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer/default.aspx

Dogdeball guys release FourSquare
http://playfoursquare.com/index

Jan and Chris start a CouchDB consulting company
http://jchrisa.net/drl/_design/sofa/_show/post/Announcing%20couch.io

Great Looking Open Source Conference
http://opensourcebridge.org/

Accessibility Insanity
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2009/03/18/if-it-fails-for-some

Publishing

Clay Shirky on the revolution
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

Dave Winer on a rampage
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/19/theRebootOfJournalism.html

IBM buying SUN - what impact will this have?

James Ward in RDU - augmented reality - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zARP8zcgURU

FlexMonkey - Firebug for Flash

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JavaScript Magazine Released
http://jsmag.com

News

JavaScript emulator for 6502 chip
http://6502asm.com/

Great introduction to functional web testing
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-testing/

JavaScript/ActionScript PHP compiler
http://jaspa.org.uk/

Rapid prototyping with greasemonkey
http://www.azarask.in/blog/post/rapid-prototyping-with-greasemonkey/

A Python interpreter is not created for each request in mod_python.
http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2009/03/python-interpreter-is-not-created-for.html

DB stuff

How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data
http://bret.appspot.com/entry/how-friendfeed-uses-mysql

Redis “key-value database”
http://code.google.com/p/redis/

(I missed this convo last week)
Facebook redesign == facebook wants to wipe out twitter
http://www.facebook.com/sitetour/homepage_tour.php

Server stuff

mod_xsendfile
http://tn123.ath.cx/mod_xsendfile/

Publishing

10 ways the newspaper insdustry is using social technology to save itself
http://mashable.com/2009/03/11/newspaper-industry/

Jay Rosen interviewed by Dave Winer
http://www.scripting.com/stories/2009/03/08/interviewWithJayRosen.html

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News Links

Using JavaScript map/reduce to create a browser cluster
http://www.igvita.com/2009/03/03/collaborative-map-reduce-in-the-browser/

Using JSONP in jQuery
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/wa-aj-jsonp1/?ca=dgr-jw22JSONP-jQuery

Annoying performance bug in the Python stdlib
http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/3/1/the-1000-speedup-or-the-stdlib-sucks

Asynchronous by default
http://rcoder.net/content/never-do-today

Taking on Twitter

• Facebook’s answer to Twitter
  http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/04/facebooks-response-to-twitter/

• Eric Schmitt calls Twittter “Poor Man’s Email”
  http://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-twitter-a-poor-mans-email-system-2009-3

More on Publishing

• David Simon on the effects of the loss of crime reporters in Baltimore
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/27/AR2009022703591.html
• The death throes of my newspaper
  http://www.salon.com/news/brand_graveyard/2009/03/03/rocky_mountain_news/index.html

Javascript

• http://jazzrecord.org
• http://activerecordjs.org

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Mikeal got a kindle!

Adam released MyTabs
http://adamchristian.com/

News Links

Safari 4 Beta Release

• AppleBlog Announce
  http://theappleblog.com/2009/02/24/safari-4-beta-released/
• Whats New? Apple.com
  http://www.apple.com/safari/whats-new.html
• Safari 4 UI criticism
  http://osnews.com/story/21056/Safari_4_Beta_UI_Disaster
• Safari 4 Beta Innovation, Marketing Hyperbole
  http://dustinwilson.com/articles/2009/02/24/The_Great_Feature_Train_Robbery/

Great discussion of CSS Rule additions to jQuery API
http://simonwillison.net/2009/Feb/22/rule/

Lifehacker’s 10 ways to get a better job
http://lifehacker.com/5157794/top-10-tools-for-landing-a-better-job?skyline=true

Facebook’s TOS, Our Bad
http://venturebeat.com/2009/02/26/facebook-releases-draft-of-new-user-terms-asks-for-feedback/

Louis C.K.: “Everything is so Amazing”
http://www.kk.org/thetechnium/archives/2009/02/so_amazing_but.php

Do we just expect stuff to be kind of broken on the Web?
http://mushpot.net/item/213

More cuts at the SF Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/24/MNO2164F73.DTL

Newspaper Deathwatch: http://www.newspaperdeathwatch.com/

JSMag coming soon!  http://www.jsmag.com