HTTPSWatch
Tracking the state of TLS support on prominent websites. It doesn’t look great, particularly in the States.
Link archive: January 21st, 2015
The Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt: Finally, the Museum of the Future Is Here - The Atlantic
Remember Aaron’s dConstruct talk? Well, the Atlantic has more details of his work at the Cooper Hewitt museum in this wide-ranging piece that investigates the role of museums, the value of APIs, and the importance of permanent URLs.
As I was leaving, Cope recounted how, early on, a curator had asked him why the collections website and API existed. Why are you doing this?
His retrospective answer wasn’t about scholarship or data-mining or huge interactive exhibits. It was about the web.
I find this incredibly inspiring.