Inspired by Lawrence Salberg’s review of Andrew Keen’s Cult of the Amateur, I downloaded the book with this month’s credit on my Audible account. I got an hour into the audio book today, and so far it’s like listening to Rush Limbaugh talk about the “Liberal Agenda”. Which is to say, his diatribes are made up of lots of false assumptions, punctuated with moments of accuracy, smeared in generalizations and couched in a rhetorical argument that only make sense if you believe the aforementioned assumptions.
With that out of the way, I agree with some of the points Andrew Keen makes, just not the conclusions he makes about them. Here are a handful of my initial impressions, stated conversationally as a response to his ideas: Continue reading ‘Andrew Keen, Full of Fail’
WordPress Exploit Scanner 0.1 has been released, in response to a comment on a recent thread about old versions of WordPress sites being hacked. You may have spotted this in your WordPress dashboard. Problem is, it only works for v2.5.1+, so it will only be useful in keeping you safe going forward. I just installed it on a basic WordPress site with K2, and got the following results:
Suspect Plugins
These plugin files look suspect. Please verify they are files you uploaded.
- ../themes/k2/app/includes/k2-sbm-loader.php
No suspicious posts or comments found
Hooray! No suspicious text found in your posts or comments tables!
For a brand new plugin that’s not bad, but throwing a false negative on such a popular theme is something that will need to be addressed. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one.
When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that the code behind reddit is available to the public for download, and we’re inviting the public to submit code to help improve the site.
Laughing Squid has been all over this. And TechCrunch is already running it. The best bit is the logo on their trac instance:
But other than the “free” bug fixes, I can’t really see what greater good this is going to bring to the world or their organization. Don’t we have enough news voting sites? I guess Reddit doesn’t think so. This would have been bigger news a year ago.
Have some unique ways to use reddits source code? Then post them in the comments.
HTTP Status/Error Codes provide valuable metrics about the ‘health’ of an application and its use. Online Producers, Developers and Designers should be mindful about the most common Error Codes, and what kind of information and tools should be displayed for users when these errors are inevitably encountered.
Continue reading ‘Common HTTP Error Codes and Designing for the User Experience’
Whenever a company becomes wildly successful in a brief span of time, it naturally becomes an object of fascination for corporate executives and even the general public. More than that, it comes to be presented as a new model for business success. Reporters and scholars scour its history and its practices, looking to distill general lessons for other firms to copy. Google is no exception.
For all its success, Google is still a young company, and it has yet to be tested by adversity. We don’t even know whether its approach to management, and in particular its approach to innovation, is a cause of its success or a product of its success — a crucial distinction.
Interesting stuff. More here.
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