Not recommended for validating URLs, but it will find them. The g flag is JavaScript specific and indicates that the matching should be global. /http:\/\/[\-\.\/\w]{1,256}(|\/)/gi [Posted: 25 Nov 2009]
danah boyd gives her perspective on last week’s Web 2.0 Twitter back channel debacle. So I have a favor to ask … I am going to be giving a bunch of public speaking performances at web conferences in the next couple of months: Supernova and Le Web in December, SXSW in March, WWW in April. [...] [Posted: 24 Nov 2009]
From Mark Ames’ Alternet’s article, The Memory Scrub About Why Ft. Hood Happened Is Almost Complete … If It Weren’t for Archives: The Army’s pig-headed failure to accommodate Maj. Hasan was, for a time, the most important — and most damaging — detail for understanding his shooting rampage. Because if Maj. Hasan tried to get [...] [Posted: 23 Nov 2009]
Peter-Paul Koch responds to recent claims that Apple is damaging its brand with its archaic iPhone App Store approval process. He says, quite plainly, iPhone developers are stupid. Why? In order to release an iPhone application without having to submit it to Apple’s insane App Store process, developers could just use Web technologies and create [...] [Posted: 23 Nov 2009]
From Transgender Day of Remembrance 2009 by Jos at Feministing. While I feel a strong personal connection to this day I also know the stories are not my own. I can mourn but also recognize important power differentials that make other trans folks more likely targets of violence. We must avoid using the stories of [...] [Posted: 20 Nov 2009]
Robert Niles tells newsrooms what they need to do to stay relevant in his Online Journalism Review piece, Walt Disney vs. the news industry: How bad management is killing newspapers and their websites. The audience doesn’t care about saving newsroom jobs or keeping journalists in journalism. Nor should it. The people who provide true value [...] [Posted: 20 Nov 2009]
Is Australian anti-immigration sentiment solely due to racism or is it concern for Australian economic and cultural health? Australian publication The Punch looks at how Australia — also a nation of capitalist imperialists, social outcasts, and the poor sots they imported to do their bidding immigrants — compares with the United States. America has resettled [...] [Posted: 20 Nov 2009]