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”’I'm simply astounded by how far Pinax has come in the short time it's been around. The list of features is huge; I think with a little more work Pinax could become a serious competitor to Plone or Drupal.” — Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Django Co-BDFL.
About Pinax
Pinax is an open-source collection of re-usable apps for the Django Web Framework.”

”When you enable Mail Goggles, it will check that you're really sure you want to send that late night Friday email. And what better way to check than by making you solve a few simple math problems after you click send to verify you're in the right state of mind?”

”These days things are different. Tonight, far fewer people probably watched the Current.tv and Twitter collaborative broadcast of Obama v. McCain – but scores of them participated, 140 characters at a time. It worked very well. You can get some idea from the 1 minute of video embedded below.”

”The collective search history provides an interesting look at the world's reaction to what the candidates are saying. Google points out, for example, that one of the hottest searches of the night was "define:maverick." I wouldn't mind learning more about the word maverick myself but I'm struck by the evidence that so many people know the search protocol define: and are comfortable using it in a dynamic situation!”

”’Moln’ och ’mark’ är för övrigt sex driljarder gånger bättre begrepp än ’gamla och nya medier’.”

While I am sure the people who work at the New York Times think of themselves as a content company first and foremost, what goes on at the New York TImes website is as much about software as it is about content. And slowly but surely the Times online is becoming social software. That's a big deal.

”Hej, här kan du strippa din rss från Jaiku på alla importerade feeds så att det bara är kvar dina jaiku-postningar. Perfekt om du till exempel vill importara dina statuspostningar till någon annan sida.”

”Att exempelvis utveckla appar för alla världens iPhones (runt 5-10 miljoner stycken) är säkert en bra idé, men att bara göra det för svenska iPhones (runt 10,000 stycken) är nog helt enkelt inte någon vidare affärsidé.”

”But then, it shouldn't be. It would have meant a complete rewrite of the Flash based interface for little gain — who wants to edit on the tiny iPhone screen anyway? What Flickr has done is take the essential search and viewing tools and made them small, slimline and fast. I'm testing the site out in an internet cafe (thanks for blowing up my home connection, Telefónica), and – apart from a problem loading photographs in my sets – the site has almost no delay.”

* Curated aggreagtion.
* A blog that treats the story as a process, not a product.
* A wiki that give us a snapshot of current knowledge.
* Discussion.

”The old building block of journalism — the article — is proving to be inadequate in the current onslaught of news. I’ll argue here that the new building block is the topic.”

Bakgrund, fakta, vad händer nu, dina pengar, katarsis.

”We had an idea: ask as many people as possible, the same question. We didn't know exactly why, I guess we were hoping to expose a slice human emotion (maybe). Just the simple act of reaching out and asking the question, is such a enthralling experience in itself. So go ahead, ask yourself…..

The Specs:
Shot on an Canon HV20 with a 35mm adapter, Worley/DIY. Indifocus rails on a Matthews M25 tripod. Nikon e series 50mm 1.8. Shure PG81 into a Zoom h4 unit. Boom Operator = Tung Bach Ly. "On location" in New Orleans, LA. Magazine St.”

”En annan metod som är relevant är att plocka bort siffror ur ekvationen och istället ge röstnings-objekten attribut. Exempel på detta är såklart slashdot där man modererar inlägg till saker som interesting, funny, insightful, troll eller andra typer av ord. Detta gör att man kan välja att bara läsa roliga inlägg, de som är intelligenta eller de som innehåller relevant information till diskussionen.”

”Vad är världens viktigaste plats? Är det Washington, Beijing, New Dehli eller Singapore?
Jodå, det är alla viktiga platser som kan ha betydelse i våra liv. Men för många människor är svaret Limhamn , Bunkeflo , Kävlinge , Lödde , Staffanstorp , Hjärup , Arlöv , Åkarp , Lomma , Bjärred , Vellinge , Näset , Svedala eller Bara .”

”In honor of our 10th birthday, we've brought back our oldest available index. Take a look back at Google in January 2001.”

”Let's get some things straight before I get old and uncool.”