TechWire: How to approach a newspaper interview : really great advice for tech-section interviewees from Adrian Weckler
(tags: advice interviews newspapers journalism adrian-weckler tips pr)best reddit comments thread ever : re ‘X# – XML oriented programming language; the foundation of an open source Enterprise Mashup Server, CRM and Groupware Suite’ — ‘When you do a mashup, you’re supposed to get your peanut butter in my chocolate, not lodge your fork in my goddamned eye socket’
(tags: mashups funny xsharp omgwtfbbq xml java hilarity reddit via:damienkatz)xpra : ‘screen for remote X apps.’ sounds better-maintained and more usable than xmove or NX, to boot (via adulau)
(tags: via:adulau unix x11 desktop gui vnc ssh screen windows xpra)Solvent : ‘a Firefox extension that helps you write screen scrapers for [semweb scraping platform] Piggy Bank.’ Nice idea — hook directly into the browser to specify scraping rules.
(tags: web firefox javascript scraping programming extensions xpath rdf browser semweb solvent)I Am Here: One Man’s Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle : great article by @mat on the benefits — and dangers — of pervasive geotagging
(tags: geotagging location mapping privacy twitter iphone mobile wired gps mobile-computing mat-honan via:waxy)