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Retweet of NiemanLab

2015 Feb 24, 8:14
Magazines are trying to create new categories of “super-subscribers” http://nie.mn/1DUg1f8 
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Results of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition

2014 Jan 28, 4:58

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After much deliberation, the winners of the Grand C++ Error Explosion Competition are finally selected. There are two different award categories. The winners of the first category are those submissions that produced the largest error with the smallest amount of source code. These entries contain a…

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Yahoo! Accepts OpenID Authentication with Google

2010 Oct 28, 6:32PermalinkCommentsOpenID Second Level Features YDN Theme Categories technical

Creating Accelerators for Other People's Web Services

2009 Aug 18, 4:19

Before we shipped IE8 there were no Accelerators, so we had some fun making our own for our favorite web services. I've got a small set of tips for creating Accelerators for other people's web services. I was planning on writing this up as an IE blog post, but Jon wrote a post covering a similar area so rather than write a full and coherent blog post I'll just list a few points:

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Tag Metadata in Feeds

2008 Aug 25, 10:13PermalinkCommentsfeed media delicious technical atom youtube yahoo rss tag

The Wii Fit's Mind Games

2008 Jun 19, 2:49

Wii Fit LogoSarah received her Wii Fit a few weeks ago. The Wii Fit is a game for the Wii and a balance board accessory that can tell how you're standing on it: leaning forward, standing on one foot, leaning backward and mostly on your left foot, etc. The game puts you through various exercises grouped into the categories of aerobic, balance, strength, and yoga. It also lets you set goals and keeps track of how well you do, how long you play, and a graph of your weight.

The portion I didn't expect were the mind games. Sarah turned it on after not using it for a day and it said something to the effect of 'Oh, didn't have time to exercise yesterday? Huh. Interesting....' I'm paraphrasing of course but the Wii Fit was definitely trying to lay down some guilt. In another instance when starting up the Wii Fit Sarah was asked 'Did you know that Dave has been using Wii Fit?' She selected yes and it then asked her how she thought I was progressing giving her four options. She selected the worst one, that I was getting worse (jokingly I hope) and it told her to tell me that, but not to use those words. In conversation Sarah should mention to me that I've been "living large". Now I'm not paraphrasing. It reminded me a bit of this xkcd comic 'Zealous Autoconfig'. Hopefully this is the extent of the manipulation and mind games that the Wii Fit will perform.

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Apple - Web apps - All Categories

2008 Apr 23, 2:42Web apps intended for the iPhone could easily be made into activities for IE8.PermalinkCommentsapple directory activity iphone software web tool tools

New Current Internet Drafts (All Categories)

2007 Jun 14, 9:52RSS feed from the IETF of the recently submitted drafts.PermalinkCommentsietf rss feed draft rfc internet reference

Shirky: Ontology is Overrated -- Categories, Links, and Tags

2005 Nov 30, 3:35Clay Shirky writes about why ontologies are overrated. I don't agree with everything but Clay brings up some interesting ideas.PermalinkCommentsblog development internet reference ontology
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