Monthly Archives: July 2009

An experiment that pits Web-only news readers vs. paper-only readers – Purely unscientific work from Slate, but I'll be interested in the results.

Five features Git should steal from Mercurial – I've been using Mercurial for almost all my personal projects but I've been using git-hg and hosting them on GitHub (since it seems to be gaining mindshare). For now, it's been the … Continue reading →

As the "mainstream" media goes, so do the bloggers – Nieman Lab points out that the study used anything indexed by Google News as mainstream, so that actually includes Nieman Lab. I think the larger point of the study is … Continue reading →

TechCrunch dubs Linux a ‘big ol’ bag of drivers’ – "The canonical example of failure in tech journalism is TechCrunch, a blog that once declared Google's MapReduce to be a system that 'reduced the links found on the web into … Continue reading →

Blow by blow of Google App Engine outage – I get the picture of a lone Googler sitting in a control room that looks like one from "The China Syndrome" watching error light after error light go off, panic level … Continue reading →