It's a year since the untimely
death of
Chris Lightfoot. He had a remarkable
combination of political commitment and technical expertise that led him to develop sites
such as
WriteToThem and
Pledgebank for the splendid political and social
software group,
MySociety.
His political writing brings a sharp and sarcastic wit to bear on such subjects as the
Iraq war, and
ID cards.
There are also some good
rants.
A sad loss to British society.
posted by crocomancer
on Feb 11, 2008 -
6 comments
Kwout,
Use it to grab a quick quotation or other screen shot from a web site and embed it into a blog or other website (one click to Flickr and Tumblr).. [
via/
via]
[more inside]
posted by nickyskye
on Dec 26, 2007 -
20 comments
Voice Thread Now the online world can lend support in your family argument about what
really happened on your fifth birthday.
posted by Miko
on Nov 5, 2007 -
6 comments
Newsfilter: 30,000 customers in the San Francisco area lost power today at about 1:50pm PDT, in a series of power failures which knocked out a major datacenter hub: 365 Main. The hub controls servers for many social media sites, including
Technorati,
Netflix,
Yelp,
Craigslist and all
Six Apart properties, including
TypePad,
LiveJournal and
Vox. (6A's
twitter stream has updates.) More
here and
here.
Amusingly enough, 365 Main tempted fate and released a
press release today patting themselves on the back for "two years of 100-percent uptime".
posted by zarq
on Jul 24, 2007 -
82 comments