Monthly Archives: February 2010

Facebook: 6 million pageviews. Per minute.

February 27, 2010 – 5:31 pm

Facebook’s 30.000 servers (and growing) serve 6 million pageviews per minute. Yes, 6.000.000 in each minute, or 100.000 per second, if you prefer. For a data maniac and data visualization consumer like myself, this simple video from Jesse Thomas is a delight. Just watch (feed and newsletter readers, you may have to click here) The [...]

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Journalist programmer: the perfect mutant? No.

February 24, 2010 – 12:42 pm

Journaliste-programmeur, le mutant parfait? asks Sabine Blanc at Owni.fr. Well, the short answer is no, but Sabine Blanc’s question is a figure of speech. She is reacting to Ryan Tate’s important Hack to Hacker: Rise of the Journalist-Programmer. Both articles impose the journalist programmer as a trend. And this trend is the news — not [...]

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Google open-sources the Living Stories format

February 18, 2010 – 2:07 am

Let’s say it. This is an excellent notice to open this blog. Google announced today on the official blog that it has open-sourced the Living Stories format. Living Stories are a new format for presenting and consuming online news. Not the graphical type of presenting like Guardian’s recent Zeitgeist that follows the best tradition of [...]

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Hello world

February 15, 2010 – 10:23 pm

No better phrase to begin this conversation, don’t you agree? Here I go. A new adventure in publishing: a kind of blog about the journalist programmer — this raising figure which is going to lead several processes in newsrooms of all kind this next decade. Share

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