» Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary
Posted 6 hours ago in Veerle's blog: full articles
Today I'll write a little bit about one of my favorite painters. It's a Belgian painter called René Magritte (1898–1967), one of the most important Surrealists of the last century. If you are in the U..

» TV News Search and Borrow: Knight Foundation Funds Expansion of Internet Archive Service
Posted 22 hours ago in 10,000 words :: where journalism and technology meet ::
The Internet Archive announced this week that it received a $1 million donation f rom the Knight Foundation to expand it’s TV News Search and Borrow archive of television news clips. As of now, the a..

» Xbox One: five key points you need to know
Posted 1 day ago in Jemima Kiss | Guardian Unlimited
Microsoft has unveiled its new generation of games console – but what else can it do, and when can you buy one? 1. What exactly is the Xbox One? It's the latest games console from Microsoft, announce..

» Score That Job: Hachette Book Group
Posted 1 day ago in 10,000 words :: where journalism and technology meet ::
Do you have the New York Times Best Seller list memorized? Do you have a passion for books and want to get into the publishing business? In this episode of “Score That Job,” career expert..

» Hikosaka Woodblock Print Workshop — print your bread, and eat it!
Posted 1 day ago in PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things"
All around the world, perhaps the art works that says “Japan” more than any other are the famous ukiyoe woodblock prints . As you all know, to make ukiyoe, you carve an image into wooden boards, and ..

» Should Gawker Take Down Crack-Smoking Mayor With Public Money?
Posted 2 days ago in 10,000 words :: where journalism and technology meet ::
In Toronto, citizens are wrestling with a difficult scenario: wily, unstable mayor Rob Ford is now implicated in a video that allegedly shows him smoking crack cocaine. But, the video is in possessio..

» How to write the near-perfect application for a job
Posted 2 days ago in The Outernet

» An Event Apart: Responsive and Responsible
Posted 3 days ago in Functioning Form: Interface Design
In his presentation at An Event Apart in San Diego 2013 Scott Jehl outlined a number of ways to build responsive Web sites that take performance in account. Here's my notes from his talk: Responsive ..

» Yahoo's $1.1bn Tumblr takeover is a bold roll of the dice
Posted 3 days ago in Jemima Kiss | Guardian Unlimited
CEO Marissa Meyer risks blowing the blogging platform's cool – but the deal could rejuvenate the tech giant's ad business Despite the breadth and diversity of life online, there are relatively few op..

» Democratic Party of Japan Public Review Session: Japanese Politics Goes Online
Posted 3 days ago in PingMag - The Tokyo-based magazine about "Design and Making Things"
Just under half a year has passed since the Liberal Democrat Party took back the reigns of power in late 2012, after three years and three months in the wilderness of Opposition. As society holds its..

» Voice Of San Diego Switches To WordPress — And Adds A Bunch Of Other Cool Features
Posted 3 days ago in 10,000 words :: where journalism and technology meet ::
I have long been fascinated by The Voice of San Diego, a membership-based investigative news site in Southern California. Their model is one from which many news organizations can learn — they were d..

» Data Monday: Mobile Devices Per Day
Posted 4 days ago in Functioning Form: Interface Design
Last year, I illustrated the importance of mobile by highlighting how many devices enter the World each day compared to the number of people born per day on our planet. The ratio was striking. Lookin..

» An Event Apart: The Map Is Not The Territory
Posted 4 days ago in Functioning Form: Interface Design
In his The Map Is Not The Territory presentation at An Event Apart San Diego CA 2013, Ethan Marcotte shared his thoughts about the changing definition of the Web and his philosophy for making broadly..

» An Event Apart: Billboards & Novels
Posted 4 days ago in Functioning Form: Interface Design
In his Billboards & Novels talk at An Event Apart in San Diego, CA 2013 Jon Tan talked about important considerations for font setting and selection on the Web. Here's my notes from his talk: The Web..

» An Event Apart: 10 Commandments of Web Design
Posted 4 days ago in Functioning Form: Interface Design
In his presentation at An Event Apart in San Diego 2013 Jeffrey Zeldman walked through today's web design principles and how they can make our sites better. Here's my notes from his talk: Ten Command..

» An Event Apart: Designing for the Responsive, Retina-Friendly Web
Posted 4 days ago in Functioning Form: Interface Design
In her presentation at An Event Apart in San Diego California 2013 Sarah Parmenter talked about the changes responsive Web design requires of Web designers. Here's my notes from her talk on Responsiv..

» The power of photography: time, mortality and memory
Posted 4 days ago in Jemima Kiss | Guardian Unlimited
We take thousands of pictures nowadays, but do we still cherish them? Blake Morrison Adrian Searle Jemima Kiss Grayson Perry Sean O'Hagan

» Vevo boss Nic Jones: 'We're at the pointy end of labels' activities'
Posted 4 days ago in Jemima Kiss | Guardian Unlimited
What the majors want from the video hub, what he learned from MySpace – and why mobile is more than just phones There are very few surviving pictures of Nic Jones, now Vevo's senior vice-president of..

» How Apple closed down Apple.com and my greatest party trick
Posted 4 days ago in The Outernet

» Moshi Monsters' founder: the shift to mobile caught us by surprise
Posted 5 days ago in Jemima Kiss | Guardian Unlimited
With a dip in desktop users, Moshi is racing to keep kids entertained on tablets and mobiles. By Jemima Kiss Michael Acton-Smith on what Moshi does next London-based Mind Candy was stalling five year..