Just as every instance of “the cloud” can be replaced with “the moon” or “my butt”, so too can every instance of the word “markets” in business reporting be replaced with the word “dragons”.
James has got you covered with this bookmarklet to do just that.
The dragons reacted strongly to the news.
A profile in The Guardian of the Internet Archive and my hero, Brewster Kahle (who also pops up in the comments).
I can empathise with Scott’s worries about fragmentation on the front-end with Saas, Styles, LESS, Compass, yada, yada, yada.
I want to share my code with everyone who writes CSS, not a subset of that group.
And this is why user-agent sniffing not a future-friendly technique. A new mobile browser comes along, and it has to spoof a fake UA string to all of these sites.
It’s a Red Queen arms race.
Investigating the options for off-world backups.
Data is only as safe as the planet it sits on. It only takes one rock, not too big, not moving that fast, to hit the Earth at a certain angle and: WHAM! Most living species are done for.
How the hell is your Twitter archive supposed to survive that?
I want this USB stick. Zarjaz!
This is an important subject (and one very close to my heart) so I’m very glad to see these data protection guidelines nailed to the wall of the web over at Contents Magazine.
Take all the fonts on your operating system, superimpose them, and whaddya get? This.
A superb post by David that ties together multiple strands of personal digital preservation through homesteading instead of sharecropping.
A handy one-page cheatsheet for using HTML5’s appcache manifest file for offline storage.
Listen to Josh explain a genuinely useful example of HTML5’s local storage that he’s added to Fontdeck.
A bookmarklet to help you figure out what files you might want to put in your cache manifest for offline storage.
John has written a very in-depth look at offline storage (using the cache manifest) in HTML5.
Oh, dear. It seems that some people have not been notified.
This is the stuff James Bond stories are made of. Except in this case, the fortress exists to store data rather than criminal masterminds.
On 18 May 2010, the Planets (Preservation and Long-term Access through Networked Services) Project deposited a time capsule in the vaults of datacenter, Swiss Fort Knox, in Saanen, Switzerland. It contained the decoding information for five digital file formats on media ranging from paper, microfilm and floppy discs to CDs, DVDs and USB sticks.
Brilliant; just brilliant. Connor O’Brien remains skeptical about the abstract permanence of “the cloud.” The observations are sharp and the tone is spot-on.
If your only photo album is Facebook, ask yourself: since when did a gratis web service ever demonstrate giving a flying fuck about holding onto the past?
Aaron Swartz gets technical about online digital preservation.
Jeffrey points out another point of failure in our online storage: the willingness of site owners to sell their product (and your data) to a big company for a quick payout.
Watch this space. Glenn has a really interesting idea (and implementation) for exchanging structured data between browser windows using drag'n'drop.
A handy little tool to help you get started with building offline apps by suggesting which files should go in your cache manifest.
A nice collection of free apps for your mobile device. No app store required, thanks to offline storage.
A nice explanation of the ruby element in HTML5: very handy for marking up phonetic pronunciation.
This thread was supposed to be about dragons!
A great portable jQuery reference. No app store required — this uses offline storage.
You can now store (and scale) MySQL databases with Amazon. Handy.
This presentation by Steven Pemberton increases in value over time.
A wonderfully informative and useful look at paragraphs styles ...in history and in CSS.
Infrastructure just got even cheaper. Between this and Amazon's EC2/S3, the barrier to entry to getting an app up and running is getting lower and lower.
The guys from Viddler have put together a little site dedicated to video coverage from South by Southwest.
Another sign up form that features hCard input (like Satisfaction). Choose a service (e.g. Flickr, Last.fm, Twitter) or enter your own URL.
I just learned from Kelly that Webkit is supporting local storage and database queries, as proposed in HTML5. Kinda like Google Gears. Potentially excited for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
A paraglider loses a propellor over Brighton Marina. Citizen journalism ensues.
Mike and the team have redesigned/realigned Newsvine with some nice customisation of the front page.
Happy Trogday! All your burnination are belong to us.
The verb form of “leverage,” like all forms of Cheetos®, is composed mainly of hot air surrounded by a shell of creepily artificial substance.
The Daily Mail headline generator.
Scroll down to the end - Apple are offering a command line tool for adding chapters to podcasts. You can also add images which will show up in the artwork window of iTunes.
A library of JavaScript classes: not very unobtrusive, not much graceful degradation. I think we need a bit less hype and a bit more questioning.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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