Category: Links
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Is this how The CBC competes with social media?
Is this how The CBC responds to being “scooped” by bloggers and twitter? With a one line “story” closed to comments? If so, they are missing the point.
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Monday Morning Links
Internet Movie Car Database – A forum that seeks to identify and catalogue every vehicle used in every movie. It’s quite incredible. They’ve even identified dprototypes used in movies set in the future (Demolition Man, Back To The Future II) and animated cars (Cars). Each make and model is cross-referenced, it’s really a very well…
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Lunch-hour Link Log
Recipe: Broccoli Curry Udon – Hungry? Microsoft Surface 2.0 CES Demo – Coming to an RBC near you soon. Angry Birds “board” game – I don’t get all the Angry Birds hype and this is just weird. Facebook Blocker – Hate Facebook? Block it, everywhere!
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The Web: Why Wasn’t I Consulted?
Great post by Paul Ford about the purpose of the web. “Why wasn’t I consulted,” which I abbreviate as WWIC, is the fundamental question of the web. It is the rule from which other rules are derived. Humans have a fundamental need to be consulted, engaged, to exercise their knowledge (and thus power), and no…
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This Week I Learned
Turns out being a dad and employed full time leaves little room for things like long blog posts. I came across a number of particularly fascinating things this week in my travels on the information super highway. Monday: Protocol relative URLs Turns out, you can leave out the protocol (http, https, ftp, etc) when including…