Category Archive for 'Best of the day's links'

US-English and English-English language confusions at Guardian HQ

Jan 12th, 2009

Another article addressing the problems of the English and American differences in language. I’ll try and bring them all together at some point. Certainly seems like we need some kind of trouble-shooting directory…

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Best UK Blog - The 2008 Weblog Awards finalists

Jan 8th, 2009

Best UK Blog - The 2008 Weblog Awards. The Mail’s Melanie Phillips in final list of bloggers, alongside Guido and Dale. But some smaller names too: Created in Birmingham, for example, which is doing very well in the poll, at time of writing.
In other blog news, the Brighton bloggers are meeting up on Thursday 29th [...]

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Historical Tweets: if Twitter had been born earlier…

Jan 7th, 2009

Historical Tweets. Oh very nice! If only Twitter had been born earlier this would have been the result… 
(am posting this via Press This application - can’t believe I hadn’t spotted it till now! I’m just trying to move over to Wordpress.org but this might keep me on Wordpress.com for a little bit longer…)

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Mento: worth a trial?

Jan 6th, 2009

Wondering whether to give Mento a trial alongside Publish2 and Delicious?

Mento: a place for sharing links
@egrommet has just pointed this application out. I haven’t tried it but wonder if it’s worth a go to play with alongside Publish2 and Delicious.

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Washington Post’s best multimedia for 2009

Washington Post’s best multimedia for 2009
A collection of the Washington Post’s best multimedia from 2008

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Best photojournalism on the net

Nov 24th, 2008

Example of using Publish 2 to automatically publish links. It seems to be working very well!
10,000Words.Net: Best photojournalism on the net
One man’s round-up of the best photography news sites on the web.

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links for 2008-11-21

Nov 21st, 2008

Eric Ulken’s next assignment: the online world, from around the world
The LA Times interactive technology editor Eric Ulken is off to trot the globe, after ten years working in newspapers. ”Now I hope to effect change from the outside”, he writes.
“Earlier this month, I left my job as interactive technology editor at the Los Angeles Times [...]

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links for 2008-11-20

Nov 20th, 2008

Horace Greeley on ‘hyperlocal’ journalism | Howard Owens
How right he had it, Horace Greeley in 1830: “Begin with a clear conception that the subject of deepest interest to an average human being is himself; next to that he is most concerned about his neighbors. Asia and the Tongo Islands stand a long way after these [...]

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links for 2008-11-18

Nov 18th, 2008

Media Monkey: Hammer time for Mallett | Media | guardian.co.uk
Brilliant. The man who brought us Polka Dot Bikini is looking for his hammer. What does he do these days? I haven’t seen him on I’m a Celeb Get Me a New Career yet…
(tags: timmy mallet fromtheonline hammer sun campaign)

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links for 2008-11-10

Nov 10th, 2008

PEACHES GELDOF TO GET PLAYGROUND DIVORCE - The Daily Mash
hehe… v. funny. "Geldof, who divides her schedule between pretending to be a television presenter and pretending to be an air hostess, said she would like to be friends with Max but unfortunately he is made entirely of bogies."
(tags: peachesgeldof, daily mash, divorce, max, fromtheonline)

Brighton Bloggers: [...]

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