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January 05 2009
Is Digg Sexist? No. Is the community it attracts "sexist"? Likely. This post is a response to the recent criticism, a diagnosis, and a prescription for future collaborative filtering evolution. The problem with the current iteration of collaborative filters is that they don't account for more than one dominant preference… read moreCraig Newmark Interview: A Brief History of Craigslist
December 13 2008
A brief conversation with Craig Newmark from this year's Personal Democracy Forum 2008. In this interview Craig talks about the founding of Craiglist, how he came to found one of the most popular sites on the web. Craig also discusses his work with the Obama team and some of the… read moreThe New Newspaper Editor: Your Neighbors and Some Python Code
December 09 2008
Since the Tribune Company is about to file for bankruptcy, I thought I'd take some time to introduce you to your new Newspaper Editor. The replacement is an algorithm and a crowd of people, or is it? Are collaborative filters adequate replacements for human editorial decision-making? Is collaborative filtering making… read moreDecember 09 2008
In his Nobel lecture Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio posited that the Internet might have prevented the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Second World War. In this post, I offer a counterargument: the decade we all lived through demonstrated the power of the Internet as a platform for propaganda. read moreKnight Foundation Scholarship: Bringing Developers to the Newsroom
December 07 2008
Rich Gordon, Associate Professor at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, discusses the Knight Foundation Scholarship for working developers to attend a one-year Master's program in Journalism. Gordon discusses the current trends in news and technology, and how developers will play an important role in the continued evolution of "news". read moreA Conversation with the Authors of JRuby Cookbook
November 25 2008
Henry Liu and Justin Edelson authors of the just released JRuby Cookbook talk about JRuby, the current state of the Java platform, and some of the compelling benefits of integrating a language like Ruby with the Java platform. read moreInterview with Jason Hunter of MarkMail.org
November 23 2008
At OSCON 2008, Mike Hendrickson interviewed Jason Hunter about MarkMail.org a site which archives 34 million email messages from 6,470 open source mailing lists. Mike asks Jason about the technology behind Markmail.org and how MarkLogic's products can scale to handle Petabyte-scale data read moreInterview with Andy Oram: Upcoming Books and Current Trends
November 23 2008
This is a brief interview with Andy Oram about the state of the technology publishing market. What are the trends in online publishing, and how does it affect O'Reilly? In this interview, I ask Oram about his views on free books and I ask him to talk about some of… read moreSun's Layoffs, Anil Gadre, and What happens to Java now?
November 14 2008
Sun announced massive layoffs of up to 18% of the global workforce as they split the software division into three groups. What do these changes mean for Java? And, who is managing the new Application Platform Software group? read moreSpring Getting into a Groove with Groovy: SpringSource Acquires G2One
November 12 2008
Rod Johnson and Graeme Rocher discuss SpringSource's acquisition of G2One. In this 20 minute interview, both Johnson and Rocher discuss the differences between Groovy and other scripting lanuages available on the JVM and why they believe that Groovy on Grails provides the path of least resistance for enterprise web application… read moreMobile 2.0 Event: An Interview with Daniel Appelquist
October 29 2008
Daniel Appelquist talks about Mobile 2.0, a one-day event scheduled for the Monday before the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Appelquist discusses the event and why he prefers to the more open, standards-based approach of the Mobile Web over the development of native applications for mobile devices. read moreSunlight Foundation Interview: Toward an Accountable, Transparent, and Open Government
October 28 2008
In this interview Sunlight discusses the importance of transparency in government, and how technologists can help filter and process the vast amount of data that the US federal government produces. read moreWhy Voting Technology Must be Open Source
October 28 2008
Vote flipping election machines? That's just fodder for conspiracy theorists, right? Well, no. Here's a video from Video the Vote documenting the problem and plea for Technical Voters to demand open source, transparent voting machines. read moreThe Next Web: "Web * e^(t/Tau)" (or "Just Say No to 2.0")
October 16 2008
It didn't take long for someone to say that the the financial crisis will bring about "Capitalism 2.0". In this article I talk about the overuse of the "2.0" modifier throughout media and identify three characteristics common to the everyday introduction of a new "2.0". With Money 2.0, Sport 2.0,… read moreOctober 15 2008
In this video interview, DHH discusses the current state of Ruby on Rails adoption. Who is using Rails? How was the culture changed over the past five years? Hansson also comments on the technologies that are catching his attention and how they might affect Rails in the months to come.… read moreAlso find Timothy M. on:
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