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System administration, tricks and tips from an old school web-hacker.

Aerial Photos of World Trade Center Attack Are Released - NYTimes.com

Newly released aerial photographs of the World Trade Center terror attack capture the towers’ collapse, from just after the first fiery plane strike to the dust clouds that spread over Lower Manhattan and New York harbor. World Trade Center Aerial Photos The images were taken from a police helicopter carrying the only photographer allowed in the air space near the towers on Sept. 11, 2001.

BBC tells news staff to embrace social media - or leave.

BBC news journalists have been told to use social media as a primary source of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News who took over last week. He said it was important for editorial staff to make better use of social media and become more collaborative in producing stories. "This isn't just a kind of fad from someone who's an enthusiast of technology. I'm afraid you're not doing your job if you can't do those things.

httpry - great little app to help see live web traffic

httpry is a specialized packet sniffer designed for displaying and logging HTTP traffic. It is not intended to perform analysis itself, but to capture, parse, and log the traffic for later analysis. It can be run in real-time displaying the traffic as it is parsed, or as a daemon process that logs to an output file. It is written to be as lightweight and flexible as possible, so that it can be easily adaptable to different applications.

Spreedly - subscriptions as a service - cool

Spreedly handles everything you need to make money - initial signup, upgrades, cancellations, etc. - so you can build your business and not a billing system. via spreedly.com

Visualizing 6 Years of Facebook [INFOGRAPHIC]

Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 and has come a long way from a Harvard-only networking site in the intervening years. In fact, Facebook has undoubtedly become the world’s largest social network, with over 400 million users worldwide and more than 900 employees. Let’s take a closer look at what kinds of numbers and user activity this growth translates to. The following infographic explores Facebook’s growth over the past 6 years.