The weblog of Michael Zehrer


18.5.2010

My delicious links for May 17th from 18:14 to 18:14:

  • OStatus – OStatus is an open standard for distributed status updates. Our goal is a specification that allows different messaging hubs to route status updates between users in near-real-time
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17.5.2010

My delicious links for May 16th from 11:19 to 11:19:

  • Five Filters – Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky describe the media as businesses which sell a product (readers) to other businesses (advertisers). In their propaganda model of the media they point to five 'filters' which determine what we read in the newspapers and see on the television. These filters produce a very narrow view of the world that is in line with government policy and business interests.
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14.5.2010

My delicious links for May 13th from 11:24 to 11:24:

  • LDAP Directories: The Forgotten NoSQL – And yet, when we look around today, it’s not LDAP directories that have the NoSQL buzz; it’s the far looser and simpler key-value stores like Cassandra, MongoDB and Redis. So where did LDAP fall down, and is there anything to be learned from its (relative) failure?
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3.5.2010

My delicious links for May 2nd from 08:53 to 08:53:

  • The Weaver, the Princess and Goldman Sachs – The moral is that you should conduct your affairs in such a way that if you fail, it will lead to someone or something even bigger or more powerful failing too. This lets you get away with anything.
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30.4.2010

My delicious links for April 29th from 11:11 to 11:11:

  • Robert Love: Why the iPad and iPhone don’t Support Multitasking – Simply put, the reason the iPad and iPhone do not support multitasking is because it is hard to allow multitasking in a system with no swap and a limited amount of memory. Apple could enable multitasking—indeed, there is no reason that the devices couldn’t support it right now, with a one or two line code change—but your applications would constantly be killed. That isn’t a very useful feature.
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