There’s a great post by Jeff Atwood on the importance of elevator pitch test out of which I snip the following: <blockquote>Software developers think their job is writing code. But it’s not.* Their job is to solve the customer’s problem. Sure, our preferred medium for solving problems is software, and...
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Facebook's 'great betrayal' does users a favor
Two points, perhaps slightly contradictory:
Facebook's new privacy rollout is doing users a favor.
"Free" may be the limit that social networks can, by and large, charge users, but it means the users aren't the customers.
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Membership has its meaning, Elitist Edition
Maybe news organizations could learn a thing or two from the genteel country club: Keep the riff-raff out, a whiff of superiority in, and everyone (with a membership) gets to enjoy the greens.
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Open source journalism: The Gotham Gazette's budget games
Gail Robinson, editor in chief of the Gotham Gazette, and Amanda Hickman are two of my new journalism heroes. With a Knight Foundation grant, they’ve been creating a series of news games, which they’re in the process of open sourcing. Switch is kind of a basic game that has players...
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Diving in to Open Atrium
I’ve given up for the evening on getting repeating events to work with Views Calendar. It took long enough just to get any calendar working, but the Spare Change calendar is once again alive and well.
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