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NYTimes Compendium 10 Dec 2012 | 05:00 am

I love this idea from the New York Times: Compendium invites readers of The New York Times like you to use articles, imagery, videos, and quotations to tell your own stories using New York Times cont...

Sizing Text in Pixels, Ems or Rems — What's Correct? 17 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am

There’s been a number of discussions at Ample lately about whether or not using ems for text sizing is worth the headache. As the one who maintains Ample’s baseline getting-started repo, I figured it’...

How to Create More Time 11 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am

Some great time-saving tips from Caterina Fake here: Eliminate or Reduce Media Work Offline Do less Don’t make appointments or schedule meetings. Sleep in two shifts. Make time less precious. B...

It's All Over Except the Shouting 10 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am

A thoughtful piece from Kontra on how far online technology journalism has fallen. Shouting sells. We’ve known this for a long time. If companies are daft enough to let their ad buyers talk them into...

Source Code Pro 10 Oct 2012 | 05:00 am

Adobe recently announced the release of Source Code Pro, a monospaced font adapted from Source Sans Pro. Looks to be worth a try, at least. Pick up your copy here. You should follow me on Twitter.

What's Next in Publishing 15 Aug 2012 | 05:00 am

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve been noticing a lot of buzz lately around how print magazines and their newspaper cousins are slipping further into irrelevancy. Of course none of this is news, but I’ve r...

Hardest Working Man in Show Business 12 Aug 2012 | 04:00 pm

I highly recommend this crazy-good interview with the hardest working man in show business, Louis C.K. On of my favorite quotes: Money is a resource. It’s an energy that you can inject into things, ...

Designing a Clock 26 Jul 2012 | 08:00 am

This has been passed around the Internet for awhile now, but I think it’s worth sharing here again. Sebastiaan de With shares his experiences designing an alarm clock app for Android. It sounds like ...

Black and White and Read All Over? 10 Jul 2012 | 08:00 am

Think the newspaper industry was in trouble a few years ago? Don’t look now but it’s getting a whole lot worse, writes David Carr in The New York Times. Between operational fiascos and flailing attem...

Lighting Couches on Fire 22 Jun 2012 | 08:00 am

An interesting article in the Atlantic is about the case between Argentinian pop star Virginia Da Cunha and Google about removing racy photos she no longer wants indexed. … she sued Google and Yahoo,...

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