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NPR Backstory: Using twitter to contextualise news

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I really liked this story about the NPRbackstory twitter account. The panel at SxSW about newspaper APIs (which NPR was tagged onto) was one of the highlights...

Obsession Times Voice

over 2 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I didn’t write much (outside of twitter) about SxSW 2009. In part that was because life rushed off in other directions immediately afterwards, and in...

Wordpress and “Pathless Categories”

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I’m working on a wordpress project at the moment, and pushing that blogging engine quite a bit further than I have before. We’re going to be using categories...

Selected (belated, extended) Saturday Links

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
The past two weeks haven’t really left time to compile my selected links, though there have been many. A few days at SxSWi (on which more, later) followed...

Rails 2.3 final and theme_support updates

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Somewhere between Ruby on Rails versions 2.3.0 (RC1) and 2.3.2 (final) a change was made to the arguments required for one of the methods the theme_support...

Selected Saturday Links

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Big themes this week have mostly revolved around twitter, facebook, and openness. Some have focussed on facebook redesigning to embrace a more twitter-like...

Selected Saturday Links

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
The Cost of Accessibility? Comments by Drew McLellan on the recently released Atlas IDE for the Cappuccino web framework, and the need for accessibility...

Hacking wordpress to support per-post banner images

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
I seem to be spending a lot of time with wordpress at the moment. It’s become so ubiquitous that it often makes far more sense to set it up and integrate...

Selected Saturday links

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
It’s always a little embarassing to realise that two or more consecutive blog postings are nothing more than a collection of links, but that’s the way...

Selected Saturday links

almost 3 years ago by James Stewart on a work on process.
Initial Release Of Moneta: Unified Key/Value Store API A new library from Yehuda Katz that seeks to provide a unified interface for key/value stores, meaning...