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December 2009
November 2009
Vincent Van Gogh's Complete Letters | Book review | Art and design | The Guardian
Magnum photographs: The hidden face of caring | Life and style | The Guardian
Information is not beautiful: Afghanistan | News | guardian.co.uk
Canadian forces are actually suffering the most. They're mostly deployed in the southern Kandahar, which adjoins the province of Helmand, where the bulk of British troops are posted. Both are Taliban strongholds.
And, if wounded soldiers are factored in, a shocking picture emerges.
Haus proud: The women of Bauhaus | Art and design | The Guardian
Many other Bauhaus women simply vanished without trace.
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October 2009
Government anti-terrorism strategy 'spies' on innocent | guardian.co.uk
Crisis looms in Kabul over Karzai election results | guardian.co.uk
September 2009
Parrworld. The Collection of Martin Parr (Part 1) - we make money not art
The Jeu de Paume in Paris is hosting an exhilarating show featuring the personal collection of Martin Parr along with some of his own series of photographs. Parrworld. The Collection of Martin Parr mixes the everyday absurdities the photographer sees in every aspect of our society with a wonderful taste for contemporary photography and an unusual empathy for the scenes and people he portrayed in "The Guardian Cities Project."
David Denby goes on the hunt for snark, abuse in a public forum | Books | The Guardian
August 2009
Data Visualization: Stories for the Information Age - BusinessWeek
After The New York Times and The Guardian recently opened their online archives to the public, artists rushed to dissect nearly two centuries worth of information, elevating this art form to new prominence.
Afghanistan calls for media blackout on violence ahead of election | guardian.co.uk
Building a robot army, one cuddly bot at a time | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
Meet the Guardian Robot: This friendly little fellow stands on your desk and monitors your Twitter feed for "happy" and "sad" posts by your friends on your Twitter feed. But unlike conventional alert systems, this robot encourages you to interact with the posts it finds.
Room service: Berlin hotel tells artists to pay for stay with artwork, not cash | Art and design | The Guardian
So where does OpenStreetMap go next? | Technology | The Guardian
From GPS to pen and paper
Getting more people to contribute is crucial for any community-driven scheme, but particularly for maps – often associated with anorak-clad hikers waving GPS units. That's why a number of people are trying to come up with new ways to track information and get it into the system.
July 2009
guardian-twitterfall - Google Code
A simple application to allow you to create a curated/moderated updating twitter display at conferences or wherever you choose. The application is designed for pre-moderation only.
Curating conversations | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
Twitter is becoming an ever present backchannel at conferences and events. However sometimes it needs curating and moderating, especially if it's to be displayed large as a part of the event. Here we talk about an app built in a few hours and open sourced today which we used for this purpose for The Guardian's Activate Summit
Print media CSS: The Guardian example : Articles : Mark Boulton
Print media stylesheets are rarely used by text-heavy websites to present their content in the best possible way for when users press the print button.
This example of The Guardian uses a rebuilt web standards template to present the existing design for the screen. The print media stylesheet however presents the content more inline with the Guardian newspaper rather than the website.
