"HTTP 418 I'm A Teapot". No, really -

"Facebook isn't Google; it's Yahoo or AOL." Michael Wolff with some near-apocalyptic outlook on Fbook's future:

The Head of #Google News @RichardGingras on the Future of News

Released @Factual today: geotargeting API, reverse geocoder, and a curiously familiar resource of world geographies

Google's search algo"is no different, constitutionally speaking, from a newspaper editor selecting wire stories to run"

Domain knowledge trumps statistical sophistication in ML

Meteor is a set of new technologies for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

MVC framework making it easy to write realtime, collaborative applications that run in both Node.js and browsers.

An open letter to the DoJ on the Apple #ebook lawsuit from the AAR and Writers House lit agency

D3 without SVG : tutorial on how @nytgraphics made their latest election 2012 map :

Yes, we can! Aufstand gegen Großverlag: TU München bestellt Elsevier-Paket ab via @SPIEGELONLINE

New 'Map of Life' project aims to show distribution of all animals, plants on planet - #biodiversity #MapOfLife

Wer hinter der neuesten Kampagne pro geistigem Eigentum steckt: Wir sind die Literaturagentur Landwehr und Cie

Another solid viewpoint on the native apps vs. shell apps debate:

"Versuch, Einheitsfront zwischen Urhebern & Verwertern zu suggerieren, ist Beweis, dass Front bröckelt" #kampagne #zeit

Wow, @simperium looks amazing. With this, @derbyjs and @meteorjs, I'm just itching to build my first real-time app.

JavaScript today is capable of generating a lot of data. The easiest way to deliver multiple files to your users is in a zip file. Instead of wasting server resources and bandwidth you can get the client to do it for you.

CodeMirror is a JavaScript component that provides a code editor in the browser. When a mode is available for the language you are coding in, it will color your code, and optionally help with indentation.

RT @iRightsinfo .@spielkamp: Verlage im Netz sind nicht so schutzlos, wie sie behaupten #urheberrecht #LSR

Parallel Sets A visualisation technique for multidimensional categorical data.

LinkedIn Acquires Professional Content Sharing Platform SlideShare For $119M | TechCrunch via @laurelatoreilly

Sales of smartphones in Germany from 2005 to 2012.

Apple attributes OSM in iPhoto;

Wannabe collaborative authors should check out - awesome platform for free book production. #rp12 #booktype

Google macht neue Regeln ähm... Richtlinien fürs Internet

@pedromiramis @netzpolitik hier ist der Widerspruchstext an das BMJ

George Orwell's review of Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' He nails it.

With support from @geoloqi, I'm pleased to release Polysplit, a utility for chopping GIS polygons into smaller pieces.

"Why do some cultures have elders but others have elderly?" Great framing concept from @richardbranson

Geniale Analyse deutscher Polittalks
Daily Dueck Aktuell via @wilddueck

One of many examples of how Amazon gives itself "most favored nation" status without contractual agreement

Code: New version of Python @documentcloud wrapper now auto-retries failed requests. Patch Docs

Code: New version of Python @documentcloud wrapper now auto-retries failed requests. Patch Docs

Förderreport der Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau - KfW - jetzt als #OpenData via @ckreutz

I'm taking the Coursera Machine Learning class. Kinda blows my mind that it's free.

Archiv der Stadt New York stellt 870.000 Fotos aus der Stadtgeschichte online. Fundgrube für (Hobby-)Historiker.

Very useful detailed write-up of the Chrome Developer Tools - basically the missing manual - I picked up some good tips

Amazon's Kindle platform is so holistic, so frictionless, nobody would even notice if they took the DRM away.

Lesenswert: "Computer können nur Programmiertes, Manager tun oft nur, was auf Powerpoint stehen kann." RT @wilddueck:

Wikimedia Deutschland sucht Web- und Software-Entwickler_in + #jobs #berlin #developer

Wikimedia Deutschland sucht Web- und Software-Entwickler_in + #jobs #berlin #developer

Marathon runners' details leaked: The home addresses and emails of 38,000 entrants to the London Marathon were a...

Take a full Stanford course on computer vision. On the internet! So tempted.

"Where would Google be ... without the US NSF grant that funded the discovery of its own algorithm?"

We're proud to announce Adobe & HTML, a new site sharing everything Adobe is working on to make the web better:

Parteispenden über 10TSD Euro für 2010 in Datenbank & auf Karte #cdu #csu #spd #grüne #fdp #linke

Parteispenden über 10TSD Euro für 2010 in Datenbank & auf Karte #cdu #csu #spd #grüne #fdp #linke

Miso is an open source toolkit designed to expedite the creation of high-quality interactive storytelling and data visualisation content.

Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.

Klingt nach wenig konsistenter Strategie: heise.de liegt Antwort der #Bundesregierung wg. #OpenData Portal ab 2013 vor

Hintergrund zur Situation beim #Spiegel -Glaubenskrieg der Branche: Print vs. Online via @HolgerSchmidt

Why We Shouldn’t Make Separate Mobile Websites

A collection of CSS3 list scroll effects.

Two papers by Alan Turing on codebreaking have been released:

Data.js 0.6.1 released. It adds set operations (intersect, union, difference) and fixes some issues. Check the docs.

Translate the Data Journalism Handbook #ddj #ddjbook

CartoDB is an open source tool that allows for the storage and visualization of geospatial data on the web. It was built to make it easier for people to tell their stories by providing them with flexible and intuitive ways to create maps and design geospatial applications. CartoDB can be installed on your own server and we also offer a hosted service at cartodb.com.

Transform KML polygons in their 'mask' equivalent entities.

Updated python-django (1.4) packages for #ubuntu #linux available in my PPA: /cc @adrianholovaty #fb

I'm Hoping That The "Innovator's Patent Agreement" Becomes A Standard In The Tech Business via @twitter

@timoreilly to talk at @medialab on 4/18 4:30pm #MLTalks Join us in person or via webcast

Wow, check out these CSS scroll effects.

Former Head of #TSA speaks out RT @rajunarisetti Why air travel would be safer if we allowed knives, lighters, liquids

Simple Google Reader access API. The module implements a couple of
feed management functions, making it possible to manage Google Reader
subscriptions (subscribe, unsubscribe, rename, (re)tag feeds) from
Python scripts and programs.

Appirater is a class that you can drop into any iPhone app (iOS 4.0 or later) that will help remind your users to review your app on the App Store. The code is released under the MIT/X11, so feel free to modify and share your changes with the world. To find out more, check out the project homepage.

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. The library, mostly written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation, FFTs, and string processing. More libraries continue to be added over time. Julia programs are organized around defining functions, and overloading them for different combinations of argument types (which can also be user-defined). For a more in-depth discussion of the rationale and advantages of Julia over other systems, see the following highlights or read the introduction in the online manual.

This project began with an attempt to write the fastest lisp interpreter I could in under 1000 lines of C. It snowballed from there as I kept trying to see if I could add powerful features with minimal code. At the same time I assembled a library of some of my favorite C code (by myself and others) to use as a base for a standard library. This includes ios, a replacement for parts of C's stdio that adds more flexible features.

Mojito is the JavaScript library implementing Cocktails, a JavaScript-based on-line/off-line, multi-device, hosted application platform.

"Natural" is a general natural language facility for nodejs. Tokenizing, stemming, classification, phonetics, tf-idf, WordNet, string similarity, and some inflection are currently supported.

The Associated Press is a damn clown show:

Just blogged! #Adobe bringing blending to the web: (via @rcabanier)

Syrup -- A whitespace-significant Lisp, in CoffeeScript, for funsies: cc/ @swannodette

Will Hachette Be The First Big-6 Publisher To Drop DRM On E-Books? Big publishers starting to get some sense. #ebooks

RT @iRightsinfo: Libri: #Zitieren verboten - #perlentaucher #LSR #Leistungsschutzrecht

Polen hat mal eben die Schulbücher für die 4.-6. Klasse neu geschrieben und stellt sie unter CC-BY frei zur verfügung:

The new is now live! With a maximum of 500 points there are now two browsers that reach 400 points! #html5

Atkinstache is a TileStache provider for generating stylized black and white halftone, or "dithered", map tiles using another tileset as its input. The halftone effect is accomplished using Bill Atkinson's original dithering algorithm created for the first Apple Macintosh computers.

Typically you would use satellite imagery but there's nothing to stop you from using a different source.

Pelican is a simple weblog generator, written in Python.

Write your weblog entries directly with your editor of choice (vim!) in reStructuredText or Markdown
Includes a simple CLI tool to (re)generate the weblog
Easy to interface with DVCSes and web hooks
Completely static output is easy to host anywhere