2009-01-07 (Wednesday)
Links
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MediaShift . Can Crowdfunding Help Save the Journalism Business? | PBS
I had this great idea… turns out it’s far from original, but it still sounds good. (via Haddock)
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Doodle: Easy Scheduling
Another way to arrange group events. (via Haddock)
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Meet With Approval
“Work out which day is good for everyone and keep track of who is coming…” Great idea, but I wonder if it works in practice. (via Haddock)
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‘I will e-mail the BBC to object to “Thought for the Day”’ - PledgeBank
I’d have signed up if I’d heard about it in time.
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Rands In Repose: The Nerd Handbook
A worrying amount of that seems to fit.
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Slashdot | Why Mirroring Is Not a Backup Solution
And why most of us entrusting our creative output to third-party sites is a bad idea. (via Lee)
Tweets
Hill Street Blues' Howard Hunter = A Very Peculiar Practice's Bob Buzzard + guns.
Taking a floppy disk drive to the south bank.
@waldo No one forced you to buy DRM'd music :) You get what you pay for.
@azeem I thought you'd already learned your lesson about having sites automatically post to your Twitter stream...?
Excellent: sounds like the neighbours didn't quite drill enough holes yesterday, so are adding a load more.