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Community News: ASP.NET inside PHP?

Community News: ASP.NET inside PHP? 04/09/2004 04:06 PM
Ever wonder if there's a simple way to call that one ASP function you found and need, and would save you tons of extra code? Well, this SitePoint forum topic might be worth a read.

Breaking technology news, local news,
and business information from inside the
tech economy at Siliconvalley.com

Breaking technology news, local news,
and business information from inside the
tech economy at Siliconvalley.com 12/09/2003 06:11 AM
Breaking technology news, local news, and bus...Breaking technology news, local news, and bus .. The front page from The Mercury News .. SiliconValley.com, .. Silicon Valley .. SiliconValley .. Dan Gillmor .. HOME

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Classmates Online, Inc. Launches New
Platform for Sweden's No. 1 Online
Reconnection Community

Classmates Online, Inc. Launches New
Platform for Sweden's No. 1 Online
Reconnection Community 04/05/2005 09:15 AM
Biz.yahoo.com - Tue Apr 5, 12:50 pm GMT

Inside Fox News.

Inside Fox News. 10/30/2003 11:56 PM
Inside Fox News. Charlie Reina, employed by Fox News from 1997 to 2003, tells it like it is. Reina: The Memo warned us that anti-war protesters would be "whining" about U.S. bombs killing Iraqi civilians, and suggested they could tell that to the families of American soldiers dying there. Editing copy that morning, I was not surprised when an eager young producer killed a correspondent's report on the day's fighting - simply because it included a brief shot of children in an Iraqi hospital.

Is Online Registration For News A Ploy
To Make Online News Look Bad?

Is Online Registration For News A Ploy
To Make Online News Look Bad? 09/17/2004 02:31 PM
These days, I very rarely agree with anything written by John C. Dvorak, who seems to be spending his time not really understanding what's happening in technology. However, his latest column has an interesting theory. We've been talking a lot about how many newspapers have a backwar ds thinking policy requiring registration just to read the same AP and Reuters stories everyone else has. The public claim is that they're doing this to give their advertisers more data about their visitors, but the amount of dirty data that goes into these databases suggests that doesn't make much sense -- and could get them in legal trouble. Others point out that online editions are really doing this to get email for the sake of selling their mailing lists to marketing spammers, which does make some sense, though isn't a particularly well thought-out strategy for long term success. Dvorak's take, however, is that newspapers are doing this to keep people out on purpose. The idea is that newspapers want to play down their online operations, to show that their paper editions are still much more important. He believes they don't want the online editions to be profitable, as that would mean serious changes for their business. If true, this is an incredibly stupid position, basically trying to convince themselves that news isn't moving online when it really is. It's even worse than just not believing what's happening -- it's working to screw up the data they use themselves in figuring out what's happening. Honestly, though, this seems unlikely. It would involve too much thought. It seems, more likely, that the push towards online registration is from newspapers who haven't really thought the issues through, but who think this will somehow pay off.

Inside Google News

Inside Google News 06/05/2005 11:34 PM

I just heard an excellent presentation by Krishna Bharat of Google News. He explained how Google News works. It basically crawls news sites, finds "story clusters", ranks the sources, figures out how prominently each source is running the story, figures out whether its a big story or a little story, figures out geographic references, and builds the pages for the various geographic and language editions. He was talking to an audience of editors so there were many questions about how the "editing" process worked and many people couldn't seem to believe it was algorithmic. Some people seemed afraid that Google News would replace them. The point that he made and was clear from the process that he explained is that it uses the decisions that the editors of the various media make about what story to run and where in deciding how important a story was. It was basically aggregating the decisions of the editors, not replacing them. Without the editors and the "fr ont page process" Google News couldn't decide what story to lead with. At least in its current form.

The derivative conclusion you can come to is that Google News is just amplifying or reinforcing systemic biases in MSM editorial and NOT helping to address these issues. I think this make Google News very news media friendly and also provides an opportunity for bloggers and projects like Global Voices to still have a very important role. I guess that if Google New started incorporating more of the alternative press, they could shift the bias.

During the discussion, Dan Gillmor pressed Krishna for more transparency on the algorithm and the list of sources and I seconded the motion.

Some good notes of the sessions on the editors blog.

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Video of my UNC talk online

Video of my UNC talk online 02/11/2004 12:29 PM
The iBiblio people have posted the video of my talk on copyright and the entertainment industry at the University of North Carolina last week. Link (Thanks, Thomas!)

March 19th Inside Mac Radio now online

March 19th Inside Mac Radio now online 03/23/2005 03:26 PM
The March 19th broadcast of the Inside Mac Radio Show is now available as an MP3 download...

July 24 Inside Mac Radio show now
available online

July 24 Inside Mac Radio show now
available online 07/26/2004 05:35 PM
Scott Sheppard, executive producer for the weekly online Inside Mac Radio show, has released the July 24 edition, which is available as either streaming QuickTime audio or as a downloadable MP3 that can be played in iTunes or on an iPod. The latest edition of the show featured Macworld magazine editors Chris Breen and Tim Warner -- Breen creates the "Breen's Bungalow" QuickTime video tutorial distributed every month on the magazine's resource CD, which Warner creates. The two discuss their experiences at the recent Macworld Conference & Expo trade show and the production of the resource CD, among other topics.

July 31 Inside Mac Radio show now
available online

July 31 Inside Mac Radio show now
available online 08/02/2004 01:54 PM
Inside Mac Radio's July 31 edition is now available. You can listen to it in streaming QuickTime audio or download the MP3 version for play in iTunes or on an iPod. The latest edition of the show features MacCentral and Macworld Online editor Jim Dalrymple, who covers recent changes to both Web sites, and Matias Corp. CEO Edgar Matias, who talks about the company's half-keyboard, among its other products.

Community News: PHP 5 is On It's Way!

Community News: PHP 5 is On It's Way! 02/04/2003 08:40 AM

Community News: PHP vs .NET Again?

Community News: PHP vs .NET Again? 12/02/2003 08:48 AM
In one of the more enlightened attempts at the age old question (PHP vs .NET), Sterling Hughes has a new posting that might help to clear the air a bit.

Community News: PHP-GTK and PHP 5

Community News: PHP-GTK and PHP 5 07/29/2004 08:31 AM
According to a news submission from Ben Ramsey:

Community News for May

Community News for May 06/07/2002 01:47 AM
May happenings among our community. Dive in and see what's been going on behind the scenes, along with some of what your fellow members have done.

The future of online community

The future of online community 03/13/2003 10:15 AM
I used to think I knew what online community was all about. I thought it had something to do with discussion forums, like the one here at InfoWorld I've recently tried to colonize. Having spent too many years, keystrokes, and brain cells debating the pros and cons of various discussion technologies, I'll just cut to the chase. This WebX thing is not working for me. It's not simply that the software mangles URLs, doesn't preview messages, and handles topics and threads in a way I find awkward. What's broken, for me, is the idea that an online community is a place where people gather, and a centralized repository of the discussions held in that place. In that model, I've concluded, the costs are just too high. It's expensiv e to join. It's expensive to participate, because interactive discussion demands a lot of attention. And it's expensive to leave, because the repository has your data, and may or may not (probably won't) preserve its linkable namespace or hand the data back to you in a reasonable form. ...

Online Community Report

Online Community Report 01/08/2004 07:07 PM
Jim Cashell of the Online Community Report interviewed me about wikis....

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Inside the
ivory tower

Guardian Unlimited | Online | Inside the
ivory tower 09/23/2004 05:29 PM
this article in the Guardian .. Inside the ivory tower

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Online Gaming Sites May Have Inside
Track On Next Pope

Online Gaming Sites May Have Inside
Track On Next Pope 04/07/2005 07:43 AM
Article.wn.com - Wed Apr 6, 08:00 pm GMT

Poynter Online - Inside the Decision to
Feature "The Fallen"

Poynter Online - Inside the Decision to
Feature "The Fallen" 04/29/2004 06:59 PM
Sievers on Fri. night's "Nightline" reading of U.S. Iraq casualties .. Behind Ted Koppel's litany: .. honor the sacrifices .. Here's an interview .. statement

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interviewed by WBAP News/Talk 820

interviewed by WBAP News/Talk 820 09/11/2004 06:57 AM
Amy Barnes Stites

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Yahoo! News - GI: Boy mistreated to get
dad to talk

Yahoo! News - GI: Boy mistreated to get
dad to talk 05/20/2004 11:17 PM
GI: Boy Mistreated to Get Dad to Talk .. you're not paying attention .. This just turns our stomach

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Other News: Beatles Licensing Talk

Other News: Beatles Licensing Talk 06/09/2004 10:31 AM
The Beatles may license their music on the Internet, but, as they're suing Apple Computer, iTunes seems an unlikely outlet.

Community News: More about the Intl. PHP
Con.

Community News: More about the Intl. PHP
Con. 01/22/2004 10:26 AM
The offical program for the International PHP 2004 Conference has been published, and looks like it's going to be quite an impressive event.

Community News: XML Is Just Too Hard!

Community News: XML Is Just Too Hard! 03/19/2003 10:24 PM
Of course, you must have been living under a rock somewhere if you haven't heard about this article from one of the guys that helped develop XML - stating that XML Is Too Hard For Programmers

Community News: PHP Versus ASP (Again?)

Community News: PHP Versus ASP (Again?) 11/03/2003 10:05 AM
Harry Fuecks wrote in to tells us about a display of Microsoft's "efforts" to come to some sort of harmony with the PHP community - a PHP to ASP converter.

Community News: PHP 5.0.0 Released!

Community News: PHP 5.0.0 Released! 07/13/2004 10:14 PM
The PHP team is proud to announce the final release of PHP 5!

Community News for April

Community News for April 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

Community News: Enemy Among Us?

Community News: Enemy Among Us? 10/30/2003 08:12 AM
Not everyone that came to this past PHPCon was happy and excited to meet all of the other PHPers out there. At least one person, Brian Goldfarb, was more than a little worried that things would turn ugly for him, a Microsoft representative.

Community News: GOTO in PHP?

Community News: GOTO in PHP? 07/30/2004 08:56 AM
Codewalkers.com has a new posting on something that's been concerning the PHP community lately (and causing a stir on the php-internals mailing list) - the topic? Adding GOTO statements into PHP.

Community News: PHP 4.3.4 Released!

Community News: PHP 4.3.4 Released! 11/04/2003 08:41 AM
Right on the heels of the PHP 4.3.4 RC3 release the other day, the PHP development team has released the full version of PHP 4.3.4!

Community News: PHP-Help.net Announced

Community News: PHP-Help.net Announced 12/19/2004 03:19 PM
Matt has written in to let us know about a new PHP help site that has just come out to be announced - PHP-Help.net.

Community News: PHP 4.3.4RC 3 Released!

Community News: PHP 4.3.4RC 3 Released! 10/29/2003 01:37 PM
Alright all of you bleeding edge upgraders out there - the folks at PHP.net have released the latest release candidate for PHP - PHP 4.3.4RC3.

Community News - Sep / Oct 2002

Community News - Sep / Oct 2002 11/06/2002 09:35 PM
September and October happenings among our community. Dive in and see what's been going on behind the scenes, along with some of what your fellow members have done.

Community News: First PHP DVD Released!

Community News: First PHP DVD Released! 12/15/2003 09:18 AM
The folks from the great white north have finally released a copy of the first PHP Dedicated DVD of the talks and sessions that were presented at the PHP Quebec's Latest Conference.

Community News: Seeing the Future in PHP

Community News: Seeing the Future in PHP 02/07/2003 03:45 PM

Community News: Bringing the Outside In?

Community News: Bringing the Outside In? 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Do you remember the time back when you knew nothing of PHP? Back when Perl or ASP was the dominant force, working to "make the web a better place"? Every one of us had to start somewhere, and every one of us had to hear about PHP from someone (or somewhere) - do you remember when you first were introduced to the fastest-growing web scripting language out there?

Community News: More from PHPCon

Community News: More from PHPCon 03/20/2003 08:31 AM
From the promotional people at PHPCon:

Community News: Tidy Available in PHP 5

Community News: Tidy Available in PHP 5 12/18/2003 09:20 AM
The author of Tidy, an extension for PHP written by me for PHP 5 which allows PHP developers to take advantage of the power of the Tidy HTML library (which can be found at SourceForge) to parse, diagnose, clean and repair any HTML document, has announced that Tidy will be availa ble in PHP 5 starting with the upcoming Beta 3 release of PHP.

Community News: PHPDeveloper.org

Community News: PHPDeveloper.org 08/12/2002 08:45 AM

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