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No, I’m not going to download your bullshit app by Tom Morris
I share Tom’s frustration with news apps that should be websites:
I wouldn’t download a BBC app or an NPR app for my computer. Why would I want one on my phone?
To Be Today
A beautiful project from Brendan and the Royal Shakespeare Company: the headlines of today preceded by quotes from The Bard.
Responsive web design interview series: Trent Walton & Jeremy Keith
Trent and I answered a few questions for the Responsive Design Weekly newsletter.
The Guardian
Remember when I linked to the Github repository of The Guardian’s front-end team? Well, now—if you’ll pardon the mixing of metaphors—you can start to kick the tyres of the fruits of their labour. This beta site shows where their experiments with responsive design might lead.
Announcing Newspaper Club Minis | Newspaper Club
Ooh, these look nice! Smaller, more manageable newspapers from Newspaper Club.
The Daily Torygraph
There’s two years(!) of doctored headlines here. Yes, it’s puerile but it’s also very funny (to my puerile sensibilities).
The Lively Morgue
Photographs from the archive of the New York Times.
daniel sinker • Hacker-Journalism 2011: A year of “show your work”
A look back at some of the best code for journalism over the past year.
beta.boston.com - Building the new BostonGlobe.com
An overview of the strategy behind the fantastic Boston Globe website.
The Boston Globe — Unstoppable Robot Ninja
Ethan chronicles the story of the Boston Globe site and his part in it.
The Boston Globe
It’s here. A large-scale commercial site with a gorgeous responsive design. Try it on any device.
This is the first of many.
Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive
A truly impressive achievement by Archive.org: all the television footage from September 11th, 2001 gathered in one place on the web.
Why We Need the New News Environment to be Chaotic « Clay Shirky
Clay Shirky takes a long hard look at the present (and future) of newspapers and—more important—of journalism. A good read.
Camptown News Greasemonkey Script — doo-dah, doo-dah « Tom Scott
Tom’s Greasemonkey script turns any seven-syllable headline into a verse of Camptown Races.
Digital legacy: The fate of your online soul - tech - 02 May 2011 - New Scientist
The editor of New Scientist writes about deletionists and preservationists while adding his own personal poignant perspective.
Digitale data in gevaar! - Datanews.be
If you speak Flemish, you might enjoy this article based on a chat I had with a Belgium journalist.
If you don’t speak Flemish, well, just move along.
Exquisite Tweets from @candicecbailey, @TreborFlow, @HannahLisaGreen, @kellymortlock, @gpcrc, @Pheebie, @helenium, @jameswarfield, @katieraby, @gromitski, @melstrutt, @racheljanejones, @LucindaGos, @davidstripinis, @LionessOfficial, @garretkeogh, @allieke
When fashion photography goes bad.
OpenPlatform Content API Explorer
A handy interface onto The Guardian's new API.
News week, day 1 (Phil Gyford’s website)
The sad state of online newspapers (the design this time, not the business).
Techno-utopian fail - The National Newspaper
Don't be too proud of this technological terror you have created.
Brighton's existentialist chalkboard (From The Argus)
In local news: Area man receives messages from chalkboard.
Probably Bad News: News fails, because journalism isn't dying fast enough.
Enjoyable schadenfreude with journalistic boo-boos.
A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web - NYTimes.com
Foreheadslappingly stupid behaviour from the Associated Press.
The Observer profile: Twitter - The tweet that shook the world | Technology | The Observer
Yet another journalist writing about Twitter. But Bobbie knows whereof he speaks. This is a good one.
‘Hyperlocal’ Web Sites Deliver News Without Newspapers - NYTimes.com
The New York Times covers Everyblock, Outside.in, and their ilk.
LegiStyles™
Typographically thoughtful themes for NetNewsWIre. Even if you don't use the RSS reader, check out the gorgeous design of this site.
Derek Powazek - Now is a Great Time to Be a Media Maker
Derek weighs in with his view on the current state of publishing. I agree with his conclusion: "There has never been a better time to be making media. There are more tools to help than ever. There are more media consumers and media producers than ever. The world is more literate and media savvy than it’s ever been."
YouTube - Newsnight Goldacre Sigman BBC2 20090224
Behold the double awesomeness of Jeremy Paxman and Ben Goldacre! Susan Greenfield, alas, is simply embarrassing.
Noisy Decent Graphics: All the ephemera that's fit to print *
I had a good browse through "Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet 2008" at PaperCamp. It's lovely.
BBC NEWS | England | Sussex | Giant Lego man appears on beach
"Mystery surrounds the appearance of a giant Lego man on a beach in Brighton ... In August 2007 a giant Lego toy, bearing a close resemblance to the Brighton figure, mysteriously appeared on Zandvoort beach in Holland."
Video: Made in North Carolina: The Iconfactory
"GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) -- In a small nondescript office on West Friendly Ave., a group of designers produces tiny artistic masterpieces that millions of people interact with every day." Nice TV news video clip showing our heroes and their beauti…
DoodleBuzz:Typographic News Explorer
A crazy way of viewing news stories courtesy of Brendan Dawes.
The Open Rights Group : Blog Archive » HMRC fiasco: Government “not interested” in expert warnings
The ORG turn a Newsnight interview into hypertext, thereby strengthening the message exponentially.
RSS Reader for Mac - NetNewsWire
NetNewsWire now supports microformats.
Times to Stop Charging for Parts of Its Web Site - New York Times
Excellent news from the New York Times: no more charging for content. Finally, I can link to NYT articles from blog posts (and del.icio.us).
The London Evening Standard Headline Generator
Using photographs of actual headlines from the Evening Standard.
Police In Knife Standoff Up For Awards (from The Argus)
Yet more on the events I blogged about down the street, again from the local newspaper.
Hero PC Tackles Knife Man (from The Argus)
Here's the local paper's take on the happenings on my street that I blogged about.
BBC NEWS | England | Sussex | Man attempted to stab policeman
The somewhat lightweight BBC report of the incident I blogged about earlier. "Reports of a man with a knife threatening and chasing people": that's me (the reports, I mean).
SpiekermannPartners › Le Monde Diplomatique
The newly-launched redesign of Le Monde Diplomatique is absolutely gorgeous. Whitespace on a newspaper: finally!
LOL: NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Mashing up pictures of cats with news headlines. The result makes almost no sense but having my lolcat receptors triggered by real headlines feels weird.
Newsvine - Newsvine Relaunches... Announcing Evergreen
Mike and the team have redesigned/realigned Newsvine with some nice customisation of the front page.
Twitter: Is Brevity The Next Big Thing? - Newsweek Steven Levy - MSNBC.com
A nicely succinct and surprisingly accurate article on Newsweek all about Twitter.
Newsvine - Hacking John McCain
John McCain stole Mike Davidson's bandwidth. This sounds like a job for .htaccessman.
The Morning News - South by South-BEST! by Todd Levin
Todd Levin of tremble.com pens a truly hilarious write-up of South by Southwest Interactive 2007.
After 221 years, the world’s leading newspaper shows off a fresh face - Comment - Times Online
The Times redesigns.
BuzzFeed
A new site for tracking what's hot and what's not.
Evening Standard Headline Crisis 2005 - a photoset on Flickr
All the hyperbole of Evening Standard headlines gathered together in one place. I have to say, Brighton's local rag, the Evening Argus, would have them beat for incomprehensibility and ridiculousness.
The New Wisdom of the Web - Next Frontiers - MSNBC.com
Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake are on the cover of Newsweek. How cool is that?
Newsvine - Comments on community
In a very meta move, I've seeded Newsvine with my post about comments (and Newsvine) with an eye to soliciting comments.
Rotation Of Earth Plunges Entire North American Continent Into Darkness | The Onion - America's Finest News Source
Millions of eyewitnesses watched in stunned horror Tuesday as light emptied from the sky, plunging the U.S. and neighboring countries into darkness. As the hours progressed, conditions only worsened.
Buzzword Hell
Am I buzzword or not?
Oakland Tribune - Op-Ed
Send your battered old copy of 1984 to the Oakland Tribune. When they get 537 copies, they will be sent to every member of the House of Representatives and Senate.
BBC NEWS | Nick Robinson's Newslog
The Beeb is blogging on TypePad.
BBC NEWS | England | Merseyside | Tributes left for a dead chicken
Merseyside Police told the community on Monday to "stop grieving, it's only a chicken".
daily mail-o-matic
The Daily Mail headline generator.
BBC NEWS | In Depth | london explosions
BBC coverage of the bomb blasts in London
Flickr: The London Bomb Blasts Pool
A photo pool of pictures relating to the bomb blasts in London today.
Bomb blasts plunge London into chaos from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog
The Guardian blog is keeping a running update on events in London.
7 July 2005 London bombings - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Wikipedia entry on today's bombings is proving to be a valuable resource.
No more beating about the Bush from Guardian Unlimited: Newsblog
Amazing news! George Bush says, "Let's get rid of all subsidies together. Let's join hands as wealthy industrialised nations and say to the world, we're going to get rid of all our subsidies together."