- inessential.com: Weblog: Comments for ‘NetNewsWire 2.1: Sorting by Attention’ — Impressive; NNW 2.1 can sort feeds by the attention you pay them. This is the real impact of the attention economy – not securitizing it, not monetizing it, just using attention as a resource like anything else, and making your tools better as a result
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Tagged as: development flickr mysql php scaling software - .c( whytheluckystiff )o. — A Quick Guide to SQLite and Ruby — Why on SQLite and Ruby.
Tagged as: database programming ruby sqlite - Textism: Twenty Faces — 20 book-weight faces; a useful reference
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- Coping with Scoping — or: namespaces for numpties. Because whilst I can tell that PHPs "all functions in one big namespace" is wrong, I don’t know why. This helps.
Tagged as: namespaces perl programming - How to use SQLite with Ruby On Rails — For all those times when a real database is overkill
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- under odysseus — A weblog being kept during the Odyssey. Funny.
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- Avant Game — Jane McGonigal’s weblog – Jane guided us through a few games of Werewolf on Tuesday night at Etech. Much fun was had, and many innocent villagers slaughtered…
Tagged as: blog games gaming play - KartMatch — Ning-powered app for finding other Mario Kart friendcodes. Fun!
Tagged as: ds mariokart ning nintendo socialsoftware - Phonogram — Kieron Gillen goes to work on what looks like a cross between Quadrophenia, Hellblazer, and the best of Plan B. Can’t wait.
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- HQ9 – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia — Cal told me about this. I think I could be good at it.
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- The 3 steps — A talk by Matt Webb from Reboot7 – he referenced it in his playsh talk, and it’s very much worth going over again.
Tagged as: computerscience objects physics programming - Moderation Strategies | Main / HomePage — Clay Shirky’s wiki for discussion pattern languages of moderation.
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- Bruce Sterling. The Wonderful Power of Storytelling — Must read this – games and storytelling. Bruce is currently blowing me away at Etech06
Tagged as: design games narrative narratology storytelling text writing - Kelly Dobson: Blendie — Voice-controlled blender. Lovely.
Tagged as: fun hardware interactiondesign ixda
- High-Pass-Sharpening — Interesting technique for sharpening photos without unsharp mask. Will try this out.
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- Keyboard Practice — Interesting looking short story/novella; really need to get around to reading this.
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- Pete Doherty and the KLF — Been around a lot of places now, but still good
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