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42 Microlog entries tagged with ‘web’
13 ways of looking at Medium
Finally an explanation of the thing, which is not explained very well on the Medium site itself. I still don’t get it. I mean I understand it now, but I don’t get it. Permalink ·
IntoNow from Yahoo!
Like the Zeebox network I linked to last December, this is kind of what I was talking about two years ago, but still not quite there. Permalink ·
Time.is
Find out the exact time in any timezone. Just because. Permalink ·
The Video Remix ‘Supercut’ Comes of Age
Andy Baio’s brief history of this web video phenomenon. It’s the kind of creativity that bullshit legislation like SOPA would kill stone dead. Permalink ·
Hands on with Zeebox, your new social TV guide
This is kinda what I was talking about last year. Almost, but not quite. Permalink ·
Google Kills Its Other Plus, and How to Bring It Back
I haven’t used it in a long time — I’ve always been a quotes guy — but it does have a very specific application that hasn’t really been substituted here. When Google starts messing up search, that’s not a good sign. Permalink ·
Microdata for recipes at schema.org
A descriptive framework or microformat for recipes in HTML. It’s a bit too ‘machiney’ for my tastes (not their fault — the W3C proposal for microdata is to blame) but other than that, nicely done. Permalink ·
ifttt
As in, ‘if this then that’. Basically an easier-to-understand version of Yahoo! Pipes, taking something from one site (usually an RSS feed) and making it do something else more useful. The list of ready-made recipes is growing fast. Permalink ·
Vincent van Gogh: The Letters
The artist’s collected correspondence, with full text and annotations, and even images of the originals. This is pretty amazing. Permalink ·
The Kid Should See This
The best of the web curated for children. If teachers aren’t finding a way to use this in classrooms post-haste… Permalink ·
TileMill
“TileMill is a tool for cartographers to quickly and easily design maps for the web using custom data.” Looks very interesting and useable. Saved for the possible journalistic applications. Permalink ·
Bangor Daily News: A complete publishing system on WordPress
I suppose something like this could be done with any extendable CMS. An in a few year’s time there’ll be dedicated software to do everything in one fell swoop. Permalink ·
Remembrance of links past
“Since Pinboard has collected a lot of bookmarks at this point, I thought it would be interesting to actually run the numbers on link rot — the depressing phenomenon in which perfectly healthy URLs stop working just a few years after appearing online.” Link rot is the bane of the web. Permalink ·
Google Recipe Search Cooks Up Next Gen of Search
Sure, this is more about search than it is about food, but I’m still interested to see if it can find me things more tailored to my improving diet. Permalink ·
Erase and rewind
On the recent deletion of swathes of content from the BBC website, which will in the future prove to be as shortsighted as the erasing of archive videotapes in previous decades. Permalink ·
Top 10 Ways to Access Blocked Stuff on The Web
Saved for future reference. Permalink ·
WebCollage
Eleven years on the interweb and this totally passed me by till now (possibly NSFW). Permalink ·
BBC Genome: The Complete Broadcast History of the BBC
More historiography! A perfect example of the permanence of the web given focus. Permalink ·
Web Stencil Kit
I don’t know when I would ever need one of these (I’ve never designed a site on paper; just hard coding and lots of browser refreshes) but I want one. Permalink ·
ToneMatrix
A simple sinewave sequencer for improvising loops. Would make a great companion to the Korg DS-10. Permalink ·
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