Entries tagged with “content” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

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"The public often thinks of artistic inspiration arriving in a sort of thunderbolt moment of creativity. The truth is, almost nothing is created out of thin air." -- from "Intersections", National Public Radio

In the age of always-on broadband, I think that it is time for someone to build a service around live (or pre-recorded) television content. Think about it. Beyond financial programming, there are logical applications around music, news, sports, reality television and educational programming.

A possible software design pattern for bipolar programmers and nasty data with outliers

The Database Misappropriation Act -- a nice little give-away to West Publishing and other data collectors -- would allow those who collect facts to copyright those collections. Calling Professor Lessig ...

The Internet is a different kind of media environment than broadcast, pluralistic and highly interactive, a potential platform for civil discussion and debate where, says Wes Boyd if MoveOn.org, "you can win by saying things that are sensible and moderate, not crazy." This is what MoveOn has tried to do.

I have recently started devoting more energy towards becoming financially literate. You may wonder, "What does financial literacy have to do with the O'Reilly audience?" Well, after spending some time playing around with the different financial web sites and reading a really interesting book, I started to contemplate a new web site (destination) and web service (APIs).

Imagine a web service/site that enhances the travel experience by improving trip research and planning, finding people to travel with, people to connect with at your travel destination, and enabling you to keep loved ones apprised of travels during a trip via mobile camera phones. This blog does just that.

When do client applications matter? Simply put, when does a rich client have an "unfair advantage" over a web browser in terms of bringing real value-add to the application composite?

This blog focuses on the evolving consumer Internet, and specifically, how the "old" web (of web pages and web sites) morphs into a new and improved Internet.

RDFMapper is a web service that searches an RDF file for resources with geographic locations, and returns a map overlayed with dots representing located resources. Clicking on a dot displays a web page representing the clicked resource. Arbitrary images can be treated as maps, so the service can be used for any kind of image annotation.

Clay Shirky lambasts micropayments for content in his most recent article, but that doesn't mean that micropayments across the board are doomed to fail.