When faced with a question to which we don’t know the answer, we turn to our informational overlords on the internet. The amount of data available on the inernet is rivaled only by the number of people screaming to be heard, and sifting through the noise to track down that one piece of data can [...]
I was browsing the CBC.ca website the other day and found an article about Canadian universities which compelled me to leave a comment, so I clicked on the handy “sign up to comment” button. Things went downhill from there. Apparently every time I tried to submit my information it was considered “unsafe” and it [...]
Amazon just went nuclear on the public API front, making over a terrabyte worth of information available to developers through a searchable API rivaling Google. Everything from US census information and labour statistics to the entire English section of Wikipedia in machine readable format.
