Author Archives: Chris Heisel

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 →

Fatal assumptions – "There were many divergent needs that led people to consume the newspapers of the 1980s. Many of those needs are better met today by other solutions. If there is a path forward for newspaper companies, it will … Continue reading →

Django Design Patterns – Appears to be a good resource for collecting Django best practices, but it really feels like it needs a.) A way to submit a patch/update and/or b.) commenting