SpahQL: Query, manipulate and manage JSON data effortlessly. -
Think of SpahQL like jQuery, but instead of handling DOM elements, it handles JSON data. Instead of CSS selectors, you use SpahQL queries. It’s a querying system for JSON data, aware of hashes, arrays, strings and booleans.
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#CurationRotation and why you should get involved
TweetWeek Syria is a localization of the Swedish Curators of Sweden and TweetWeekUSA projects and the concept behind it is based on the #RotationCuration model. You can read more about it on Wikipedia.
Different curators will have full control over the TweetWeekSyria account on Twitter every week, allowing them to share their visions, perspectives or ideas to mass audience using the Twitter platform.
Similar to the TweetWeekUSA project, TweetWeekSyria is not an official account for any association and is in no way related to any organization, ideology or religion. The sole purpose of this project is to provide a wide platform for Syrians around the world to share their thoughts and express their opinions without any censorship.
The project will kickstart on the 1st of June 2012 and the account on Twitter will begin to be managed by someone who is yet to be selected using a public voting platform. Voting will begin on May 29th and will be open for three days. If you’d like to nominate yourself or someone to take control of the account for the first week, please click here.
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The Long Reader exists not just because creators Beshr Kayali and Mohammad Kayyali think it’s a clever idea — and it is — but because there is a newly awakened appetite for this kind of content. And it shows what could happen if the hunger grows so gnawing and ruthless that it ultimately devours the whole enterprise.
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But that, in some ways, is maybe even more of a nightmare for publishers: the idea that scraping or republishing content, as long it’s in the name of “discovery,” isn’t wrong at all. It’s just a service.
” — Very interesting thoughts on a service @beshr and I created on a weekend :) (via digitalhunt)(Source: BuzzFeed, via digitalhunt)