The Guardian, January 16 2009

1. History Boxes
Aaron Straup Cope
The Guardian, January 16 2009

2. Hi, my name is Aaron

3. Wax on, wax off

4. The Mirror Project

5. The Bubble

6. Real estate (on the web)

7. tcpdump is my API

8. Flickr

9. What have I learned?

10. Social means change

11. engineering threatens to quit launch GOTO 10
changes
Features are not “products”
time

12. Data, not answers

13. The “Who Cares” Principle

14. FL(ENG/OPS)
MARSHMALLOW!!!
BACON!!!

15. JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Python
Bash C++

16. Community
management
JavaScript
PHP
Perl
Java
Python
Bash C++
No, really

17. uploadr
browser API browser
www
www www
memcached squid
storage
mysql search
geo
“feeders” image processing
offline offline offline offline offline
tasks tasks tasks tasks tasks

18. Client
Application
Caching
Caching
Data Data
“Near Future”

19. Things not shown

20. Deploy tools

21. Kill switches

22. The Fear

23. An unfortunate truth

24. “The worst part about PHP
is that itʼs often the right
tool for the job.”

25. Nubby bits

26. Black boxes

27. shake before use
“Reverse geocoding”

28. the
“mastro”
Kill me now

29. Why am I telling you this?

30. News is social software

31. Communities of authority

32. 10:15:10 PM Aaron Straup Cope: tomorrow, I will make
API methods
10:15:39 PM Paul Hammond: we should make something
on the site instead
10:15:46 PM Paul Hammond: api methods are cheating
10:16:13 PM Aaron Straup Cope: api methods are
potentialities for the site
Nubby bits

33. The shape of content

34. “Histories of movement...”

35. “...that constitute place.”

36. Interpretation (client)
Public API (application)
Pattern Matching (caching)
Editorial (data)
Reporting (near future)
Quite possibly nonsense

37. Feeding the story

38. Thank you

39. http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2920083506
http://www.flickr.com/photos/yashh/2834617697/
http://www.aaronland.net/basementboy/
http://www.mirrorproject.com
http://www.mirrorproject.com/by/artboy
http://flickr.com/photos/straup/2413601449/
http://www.aaronland.info/nytimes/related/
http://code.flickr.com/blog/2008/10/30/the-shape-of-alpha/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kevincollins/446759634/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/330500781
features are not “products”
http://www.flickr.com/photos/norby/407620068/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/atc/103174228/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3190491518/
how it works
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3233781401/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/328341800/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/192184337/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wafer/2534333174/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/73244196/
choose your poison
http://www.flickr.com/photos/revdancatt/370024049/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3178465288/
http://www.aaronland.info/talks/#where08
the mastro
why am I telling you this?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2362170408/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kellan/2883459596/
my dinner with hamster
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3180283176/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/3171285346/
http://rocketstrikes.iamnear.net/
quite possibly bullshit, really
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/2368376951/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/straup/381894147/