A prism bends light. #PRISM reporting bends truth
I wasn’t going to talk about the current fuss around PRISM, but the speed with which conjecture, rumour and some (good) newspaper investigative work has turned into ‘fact’ and ‘truth’ online makes this worth addressing. The conjecture may be correct. The NSA, the FBI, TLA and ETLA might be plugged right into the data centres of the [...]
A podcast conversation with Will Hunsinger of Evri
I spoke with Will Hunsinger, CEO of Evri, yesterday and the result has just been released as a podcast. Backed by Paul Allen’s Vulcan Capital, Seattle-based Evri is using semantic technologies to “change the way consumers discover and engage with content on the Web.” Via the site at evri.com, users are able to explore news-like [...]
Power Of Clouds: Amazon EC2 Helps A Traditional Media Company Again
Image via Wikipedia As Cloud evangelists, we never shy away from talking about how New York Times used Amazon EC2 to convert full page images of its newspapers from 1851 to 1922 into PDF using Amazon EC2. In fact, this is one of the early cloud success stories. Using Amazon Web Services, Hadoop and our [...]
