Brewster’s trillions: Internet Archive strives to keep web history alive
A profile in The Guardian of the Internet Archive and my hero, Brewster Kahle (who also pops up in the comments).
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Google Keep? It’ll probably be with us until March 2017 - on average
Charles Arthur analyses the data from Google’s woeful history of shutting down its services.
So if you want to know when Google Keep, opened for business on 21 March 2013, will probably shut - again, assuming Google decides it’s just not working - then, the mean suggests the answer is: 18 March 2017. That’s about long enough for you to cram lots of information that you might rely on into it; and also long enough for Google to discover that, well, people aren’t using it to the extent that it hoped.
Anatomy of a responsive page load
The slides from Andy’s excellent pragmatic talk on performance and aggressive enhancement at the Responsive Day Out.
Fragmented world: what two years of traffic data teaches you about mobile | Info | guardian.co.uk
A great breakdown of mobile traffic to The Guardian website over time.
Base CSS | Pasteup | Guardian News
The Guardian’s front-end patterns library. The modules section contains their equivalent of a pattern primer. Very nice!
Responsive IA: IA in the touchscreen era - Martin Belam at EuroIA
A really terrific piece about wireframing for responsive designs. Again, it’s all about the prototypes.
Guardian Truncation Team
Celebrating the work of the tireless men and women who shorten headlines so they’ll fit on your iPhone.
The Guardian
Remember when I linked to the Github repository of The Guardian’s front-end team? Well, now—if you’ll pardon the mixing of metaphors—you can start to kick the tyres of the fruits of their labour. This beta site shows where their experiments with responsive design might lead.
beta.guardian.co.uk
Those clever chaps at The Guardian are experimenting with some mobile-first responsive design. Here’s how it’s going so far.
Linked Data at the Guardian | Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
A great write-up of the latest additions to the Guardian's Open Platform API including a lukewarm assessment of Semantic Web technologies like RDF.
This is a news website article about a scientific finding | Martin Robbins | Science | guardian.co.uk
A perfect parody lampooning the shallow and cowardly reporting of most so-called science stories by the press (I'm looking at you, BBC).
Concerning FourSquare · Ben Ward
A great Fisking by Ben of (very silly, IMHO) morally panicked Guardian article on Foursquare.
OpenPlatform Content API Explorer
A handy interface onto The Guardian's new API.
Ten years of the Guardian online - plotted in expletives
Trust Tom to use the Guardian's new API for the purpose of answering those pressing questions, like "is fuckknuckle *really* the new cockbadger?"
Data Store: Facts you can use |
The Guardian has released a shedload of data for us to play with. Go forth and hack.
BBC Builders: Web developer Simon Cross on personalisation and the semantic web |
A lovely shout-out to Clearleft from the BBC: "Along with other awesome UK companies like ClearLeft, we hope the work we're doing influences more web companies to adopt more best practice, like following the principle of 'progressive enhancement'."
GameCamp | Technology | guardian.co.uk
Aleks and Bobbie are putting on GameCamp in London on May 2nd. Should be fun.
Podcast: Welcome to Tech weekly from the Guardian | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
There's a new technology podcast available from The Guardian. It's hosted by Aleks and judging from the first episode, it's going to be very good indeed.
Top 10 dotcoms to watch | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
Bobbie draws up a list of UK startups to keep an eye on. Moo is here of course but so is Dopplr.
Guardian Unlimited
The front page of The Guardian website has been redesigned with some good use of typography and colour. Shame it's so wide though.
Cá Bhfuil Na Gaeilgeoirí? | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
Can you really get by in Ireland by just speaking Irish? Not in Dublin, it seems. I'd love to see the TV show that this article is based on.
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Suspicious behaviour on the tube
A truly frightening description of what can happen to any person in Britain today.
Simon Bisson: Old dog learns new tricks
Ajax in The Guardian.
Bomb blasts plunge London into chaos from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog
The Guardian blog is keeping a running update on events in London.
No more beating about the Bush from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog
Amazing news! George Bush says, "Let's get rid of all subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our subsidies together."
Ben Hammersley: Second Sight
In the Guardian: Yahoo is the new Google. Google is the new Yahoo.