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Developers take REST with Rails | Technology | The Guardian Rails 2.0’s release gets covered by the Guardian (tags: guardian rubyonrails) Opera complains to Europe over IE lock-in - The Web Standards Project “Opera has filed an antitrust complaint with the European Union to force Microsoft to support open Web standards in Internet Explorer and to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows and/or carry alternative browsers pre-installed on the desktop.” (tags: antitrust eu internetexplorer microsoft opera windows)

More people are visiting charity websites, according to research - Communications - Third Sector “The proportion of people visiting charity websites has leapt by a third in the past nine months, according to research by think tank nfpSynergy.” (tags: charity nptech statistics thirdsector traffic web) Adapt to the web or lose donors, voluntary sector warned - Communications - Third Sector “The research report says that information technology has not increased the amount given to charities each year, but it is changing the way people give – and handing control of giving methods to the donor.” ...

David Byrne Journal: 12.06.2007: Embedded (at the New York Times) David Byrne recounts an exploration of the new New York Times building and muses on the future of newspapers. (tags: davidbyrne forblog futureofmedia newspaper) Dopplr Blog » Dopplr launches at LeWeb3 in Paris Dopplr is out of beta and open to all. I keep using dopplr as an example when writing about how social network sites can be done right. Now everyone can try it. ...

David Byrne Journal: 12.06.2007: Embedded (at the New York Times) David Byrne recounts an exploration of the new New York Times building and muses on the future of newspapers. (tags: davidbyrne fordevblog futureofmedia newspaper)

Since moving from a house (in Michigan) to a flat (in London) I’ve had a number of occasions to get frustrated with delivery people who don’t make sufficient effort to leave notes where they won’t be trampled underfoot, or with myself for forgetting to include the flat number when entering a delivery address. With my In Rainbows discbox taking a while longer than expected to reach me I was worried that that was what had happened to it, and then very impressed with a text I received this lunch time. ...

Saturday saw us out in the rain for the National Climate March. Given the appalling weather and the minimal level of publicity the turn out of 7,000 or so was respectable, and the rain didn’t seem to prevent people from turning out in plenty of costumes and high spirits. It’s probably too optimistic to think that the march had anything to do with this announcement, but it’s still good to hear it so soon afterwards. ...

Caught in the flash | Observer Music Monthly meets Radiohead Radiohead are finally breaking their radio silence. This interview is based on fan questions, which works fairly well thanks to careful editing. Good to hear the band talk about all the fuss around the release of In Rainbows (tags: forblog interview music observer radiohead) Morethanseven » Insert Dojo and YUI bookmarklets Between Jash and these, it’s getting easier and easier to insert your javascript toolkit of choice into arbitrary pages and explore/change to your heart’s content ...

Caught in the flash | Observer Music Monthly meets Radiohead Radiohead are finally breaking their radio silence. This interview is based on fan questions, which works fairly well thanks to careful editing. Good to hear the band talk about all the fuss around the release of In Rainbows (tags: fordevblog interview music observer radiohead)

James Clark’s Random Thoughts: Thai personal names Using the way Thai culture understands names as an insight into how complex internationalizing an application can be. We learned a little about that while in Thailand this summer and were particularly fascinated by the way Thai script has no spaces. (tags: i18n l18n language thai) 24 ways: JavaScript Internationalisation A little help with internationalizing javascript-based UIs from Matthew Somerville and his friends at the North Pole ...

The content on this blog has been a bit more diverse of late and while I tend to take the approach that if I enjoy some of the content on a blog I might as well keep an eye on all of their content to get a more rounded view of the writer, I recognise that some readers may not be interested in tracking everything. As a result I’ve added separate feeds for my two key consulting foci. So if you’re just here for musings on music on the web, you might want to grab this feed and if you’re looking for thinking on the web and other technology for charities, campaigns and other non-profits then you’ll want this one. The main feed remains at its existing location. ...