December 2010
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American Diversity: The Second Line
Today a line of Americans for diversity marched forward in joy as congress repealed the ‘don’t ask don’t tell law’ that banned gay soldiers from serving openly in the military. Unfortunately as they celebrate that milestone they pass a second line marching the opposite direction. Immigrant youth pass by them in misery because their one chance for becoming a legitimate part...
Dec 19th
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Sunlight Labs Needs Your Help to Keep the Fires... →
Dec 16th
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Campaign Monitor Rewrites API, Dumps SOAP →
This is the first post I have written in a couple months for Programmableweb.  Trying to focus on getting more written.
Dec 13th
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“They really screwed the pooch on that one”
– Dave Winer at #PDFleaks, Talking about Amazon dropping Wikileaks
Dec 12th
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OGC announces Table Join Service Standard
geomurmur: News: #PressRelease: 10 December 2010 – The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC®) announces adoption and avail ability of the OGC Georeferenced Table Joining Service (TJS) Implementation Standard, Version 1.0. The TJS standard is available for free download at http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/tjs. The OGC TJS standard defines an interface for services that provide the ability to...
Dec 12th
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“The power of the press can be dramatically limited when the power to the press...”
– Media and technology (via alexhwilliams)
Dec 5th
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Too Long For Twitter, too Short for Nieman: How... →
chanders: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, on why his original version of commons-based news analysis failed, why he turned back to the professional news organizations, and what amateurs still bring to the world of networked journalism. I basically went through this same learning process myself over a…
Dec 5th
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Netflix Gains Significantly by Moving its API to... →
Dec 2nd