Wed 30 Jul 2008
My del.icio.us bookmarks for July 23rd through July 30th
Posted by bill under I saw this
Here’s what I tagged on del.icio.us between July 23rd and July 30th:
- Web curbs for Olympic journalists - What a surprise…
- Plenty of Blame to Go Around in Yahoo Music Shutdown - Ed Felten knows who to blame, and I agree with him entirely.
- Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip… - nasty little piece of software called Evilgrade that uses a man in the middle attack to exploit automatic update code.
- Consultation on legislative options to address illicit P2P file-sharing - BERR - UK government consultation opens..
- How to make our newspapers profitable again: David Aaronovitch Simulator | The Wardman Wire - ah, how entertaining…
- Google Knol is evil | Seldo.Com Blog - Hard-hitting analysis: is Knol Google's 'IE vs Netscape' moment?
- Rocque London Index Map - Useful for anyone reading Neal Stephenson's Baroque Trilogy, especially The System of the World
- AWS Service Health Dashboard - Amazon S3 Availability Event: July 20, 2008 - "With a large number of servers gossiping and failing while gossiping, Amazon S3 wasn't able to successfully process many customer requests" Excellent explanation, and good communication with customers
- xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe - Ah yes…
- Ofcom report into Social networking usage - some reading for us all I think
- DRM still sucks: Yahoo Music going dark, taking keys with it - And yet the music industry wants ISPs and government to sustain their broken business model…
- Announcing the Open Web Foundation - Open Web Foundation - Could be useful
- Read Giles Coren's letter to Times subs | Media | guardian.co.uk - I didn't expect to, but I agree with him
- Cuomo strong-arms Comcast over Usenet | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology - CNET News.com - Nice analysis of a dangerous tactic
- MySQL forks: could Drizzle be the next of the new generation of relational database? | O'Reilly News - Seeing a major system fork is like watching close friends divorce. Wish them both well…