The King Of Pop

Michael Jackson’s Death: An Inside Look At How Google, Yahoo, & Bing Handled An Extraordinary Day In Search

The New Socialism

Fantastic article from Wired Magazine about how the Internet is fostering a new era of global collectivization. Make yourself a nice cup of tea, and take a small while to read it. Very interesting.

The New Socialism: Global Collectivist Society Is Coming Online

The Revolution Will Be Tweeted

To anyone who thinks Twitter is vain, trivial or narcissistic navel gazing, think again. Iranians are using it to get the full story across to us, and Twitter have done their part too; rescheduling their maintenance as to avoid being down during this crucial time.

Twitter Reschedules Maintenance Around #IranElection controversy

HTML Wins!

“I’m not against Flash and I love the work that people such as Joshua Davis do,” he explains. “It’s brilliant, but I’ve always been in this other area of web development that I thought was probably better for most content. There was a point in the 90s when I felt like a sucker for doing HTML and CSS and telling people about this stuff. I looked at all these people who had pure typographic control and could do animation, all this great, fun stuff, and I was this jackass saying ‘No, we should use HTML’. I felt like a loser, but we won – HTML has won. That’s the amazing thing for me. People use Flash for film and they use it for what Daniel Mall calls ‘the experience layer’ as part of a standards-based site. So there are uses for Flash, but basically HTML, CSS and JavaScript have become the real platform of the web now. I feel very heartened by that; it’s the thing that makes me the happiest.

Interview with Jeffrey Zeldman from .net magazine.

Yes We Can!

The Design Director for New Media for the Obama campaign gave a talk recently.

A Parting Note...

That's it for this semester, and I'll leave you with this topical article from the Times, which questions web 2.0's relevance...

Break free of this world wide delusion...

Murdoch to charge for News websites.

Billionaire Tyrant (his own words) Rupert Murdoch plans to charge people to visit his News Corp websites, starting in 12 months or so, to fix (as he calls it) a "malfunctioning business model.".

What do we think of this? Would you pay? One of the sites I visit most often is the excellent website of The Guardian. I could see myself parting with a small monthly fee for access, but I think its a backwards step. Murdoch's inspiration, apparently, is the booming trade of the subscription Wall Street Journal. But they cater for a very specific market, would the Sun reader pay to read it online?

I certainly wouldn't pay for anything Murdoch owns....

Link (from The Guardian, freely accessible)