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This month
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.
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."
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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.
June 2009
May 2009
ShouldIBackupMy.com | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
ShouldIBackupMy.com – A project for Open Hack 2009
Cristiano Betta talks us through how he built the wonderfully funny "ShouldIBackupMy.com". In this project he uses The Guardian Content API to give him information to "predict" the longevity of things you might be concerned enough about to back up.
The Truth is In There: Research & Discovery with The Guardian Content API | The Guardian Open Platform | guardian.co.uk
Application Programming Interface, a phrase that has a number of different meanings to the people build and use APIs, and virtually no meaning at all to those that don't. I like to think of an API as a bridge - one which allows information to flow from one piece of software to another. In the case of the Guardian's Content API, the bridge allows us to send requests to and receive information from the Guardian's huge database of articles, images, and other assets.
