I’ve got an idea for a new mashup, but I need some help. I usually get my Politik fix on Reddit, so I’m looking for a list of political blogs. General criteria:
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waiterrant.net » Blog Archive » Seduction
But seduction, to me, isn’t making someone do what they don’t want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.
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Utility Mill - Makes Utilities
Utility Mill looks like a kick ass hosted service for mashup development. It lets you create hosted web services that run your custom Python code, handling input and output in an easy way. This service fills a hole in the “mashup stack” by adding custom scripting functionality without the need for a server side scripting language. So, if you need to perform any kind of filtering or munging of your mashed up data, and you aren’t exactly a Javascript guru, you can still keep everything client side by passing your data through Utility Mill first.
Other really nice features include commentary, revision control, and mandatory GPL licensing. It’s also not a bad way to pick up some Python knowledge–especially when you see contributors named “guido.” Here are a couple fun/interesting/useful ones I found:
and of course:
I was able to register on the site and write a silly little UUID Generator in about three minutes 
I’d really like to see this done for PHP or Ruby too.
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Shimmy Mehta is the founder and CEO of Angelwish.org, a non profit public charity that helps children with HIV/AIDS. I’ve had the pleasure of meeting Shimmy at a couple Mashup Camps. Today Shimmy was on local New York news for sponsoring a toy shopping spree. Congrats and cheers to Shimmy for all he does to make the world a nicer place for children.
MyFox New York | Anne About Town: Toy Shopping Spree
Also, if you’re a PHP/MySQL developer and have a few hours free from time to time, and I know you and can vouch for you, shoot me an email. Angelwish is looking for and is happy to accept volunteer development help.
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Chad Dickerson and Tom Hughes-Croucher hit the streets in Dublin to ask, “what’s a mashup?“
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One of the AOL guys couldn’t make it to Dublin, so Dave Berlind asked me to fill in. I took a different angle with this talk, and did it without any speaking. It was risky, but I think the reaction was great. This was probably the funnest ‘talk’ I think I’ve done.
I do want to add that the 128 bit part was shamelessly lifted from this awesome article about GUIDs.
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Here’s my slides for my intro talk:
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Not a bad trip. The guy next to me in the plane managed to spill a full glass of water all down my right leg while I was sound asleep. I turned the air jet on full blast and after 30 very uncomfortable minutes everything was fine. However, let’s coin a new phrase:
Aeroaquacadophobia
And I now suffer from it.
After a delightful cab ride to the Morrison Hotel (no relation to the album), I have a room and and Internet connection, Skype enabled!
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It’s on, bitches.
If I make it across the ocean, I’ll be 5 for 5 in Mashup Camp attendance!
For the third ‘Camp in a row, I’ll be teaching the Intro To Mashups talk, the very first session of Mashup University. It’s basically an ice-breaker talk that gets everyone excited and inquisitive about what we’ll be doing for the next three days.
I’m looking forward to seeing the friends I’ve made from earlier camps as well as meeting new folks. The challenge this ‘Camp will definitely be maintaining the balance between hacking on mashups during speedgeeking and a stable blood alcohol level. After all, this unconference will be hosted at the Guinness Storehouse!
“There can be no tradition without innovation.”
- Earle Hitchner, Irish music journalist
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R A D I O H E A D - In Rainbows
Just got my download link via email. I shall have it downloaded by the time this is posted.
Note to the record companies: I paid more than twice as much for this digital download than I would have paid for a plastic disc at the store, or for any DRM crippled files elsewhere.
Why?
Because the money goes to the band.
Because I was given the opportunity to not feel like a criminal.
Because DRM is never the answer.
Because digital file sharing is not going away.
Because it’s Radiohead.
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