links for 2008-08-28
Aug 29, 2008 Author: Joanna | Filed under: Uncategorized-
news organsiations are beginning to adopt this approach and are beginning to release application programming interfaces – more commonly abbreviated as APIs – to allow outside web developers easy access to their content for use in non-commercial online projects.
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News International has effectively scrapped its mobile division and merged it with its commercial and digital divisions, reports New Media Age.
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over 90% of us are happy with our mobile service – but too many are not. Ofcom is concerned that complaints by consumers about mobile services appear to be rising.
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"Last month the Home Office announced that everyone in England and Wales will have access to crime maps of their local area by the end of this year. But will they help cut crime, or could they have unforeseen consequences?"
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So many journalists that I meet still believe that there is something exceptional about what they are doing and producing. They still operate on the assumption that information is scarce, which is why the industry has largely failed to adapt to the information and media-saturated society that we live in.
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1TB of storage, manage music and photos remotely, optimised for the iPhone
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he decided to quit to pursue opportunities on the web after covering the Olympics in Beijing because newspapers are in serious trouble
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tap tap tap. Is this thing on?
Hi dp, yes it is.
Sorry for the delay – I damaged my wrist on Bank Holiday Monday and have been holding back on the blogging since then.
We’re about 70% back to normal now.
Ooh, I don’t want to be responsible for further damage, so maybe I shouldn’t have asked. Or maybe you can get a speech-to-text thing set up. Which would make shouting at the computer that much more fun. Not that I suspect you of shouting at computers…. And please don’t type a reply to this til your injuries have healed!
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