2011-10-24 (Monday)
Writing
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One dimensional news
Looking back at my Today’s Guardian site, after using it for a while. And identifying a problem all digital news design seems to have.
Links
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jQuery.fracs · larsjung.de
A library for dealing with objects that extend beyond the viewport - how much is visible, where it is, etc.
Tweets
I'm enjoying Thom Yorke's 6Mix. That's all. indiemp3blog.com/2011/10/thom-y…
@ianbetteridge That is quite special isn't it. I always thought drumming circles were a terrible thing, only enjoyed by their participants.
At least the police presence on Finsbury Square might stop all the cyclists going the wrong way, or on the pavement, on its south side.
Westminster, England, United Kingdom
@tobybarnes Also I’m coming from the perspective of wanting to read lots of news, rather than browsing, which seems to be Flipboard’s forté.
@tobybarnes I never got the hang of Flipboard... too many things I wasn’t interested in or had seen elsewhere. Maybe I should try again?
I wrote a look back at my Today’s Guardian site, and the fundamental design problems it shares with all digital news: gyford.com/phil/writing/2…
@jonathan_fry Thanks! The diary text is from Project Gutenberg, the same as I use on pepysdiary.com