Category: Web 2.0

When The Blogging Flag Drops…

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Veteran F1 reporter Joe Saward talks about the issues around blogging, wire services, quotas for stories, attendance (or otherwise), in the world of online F1 coverage: In part this is due to people called news aggregators. These are the bottom feeders of F1 who pick up stories wherever they can, in whatever language. They have no means of checking the information they gather and so they package up the stories in bite-sized chunks and pump them out to dozens of lazy websites that run the same stuff. This has two effects: the first is that they have deals for x

It’s like The Grauniad, but for teh Internet!

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Quickly, head over to Stef Lewandowski’s latest hack, tehguardian.com. I was telling Pascal Auberson and Bill Thompson, two of the other hackers about the fact that I owned the domain, and there were about seven of the Guardian team in the room, and well, wouldn’t it be really funny to demo something on-stage that was a hack on their site? And we riffed about what it could be, and somehow we found ourselves laughing about how it would be wonderful to take the piss out of the reputation that the Guardian, probably unfairly nowadays, has for typos in published articles. By inserting our own

XKCD and the X-15 Astronauts

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There are moments when you can look at an XKCD cartoon and now exactly what the mouseover text is hidden. ‘Astronaut Vandalism‘ was one of those moments, although I was half-expecting the change from 62 to 50 to be done not be ‘retired USAF pilots’, but by Joe Engle, the last of the eight X-15 astronauts still alive.