Wednesday October 27, 2010
"Thanks so much for sticking with me; for your comments and tweets and your emails too. It was very much appreciated. If you're going to liveblog a tennis match in Necropolis, it's reassuring to have someone there to hold your hand." Epic live blog of the Isner vs Mahut ,11 hour game, ending 70-68. When live blogging becomes a strange kind of real time fiction.
Thursday June 18, 2009
"Join us in digging through the 700,000 documents of MPs' expenses to identify individual claims, or documents that you think merit further investigation. " Crowd-sourced expenses investigation, amazing.
Thursday June 11, 2009
Good old Guardian chapsL "When you vote in the European elections ... they are not published centrally - until now, that is. The table is sortable - and the full spreadsheet with numbers, all parties and turnout is below"
Thursday March 26, 2009
"This story is part bug hunt, part open-source love-story. The bug was a particularly gnarly, beautiful little bug and I'm going to try to convey some of that to you. But the other half of the story is really the thing here..." - The Guardian, large scale caching, open source and bug hunting.
Tuesday March 17, 2009
Injunction forces news website to remove seven leaked memos showing how bank avoided hundreds of millions of pounds in tax
Monday March 16, 2009
Novelist, magician and 'guru of the graphic novel' Alan Moore talks to Steve Rose about Watchmen, the dark side of Hollywood and the morality of pornography
Tuesday March 10, 2009
"The Open Platform currently includes two products, the Content API (for getting Guardian content ) and the Data Store (a collection of important and high quality data sets curated by Guardian journalists)"
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