Top 20 Secrets of Coda 2. I had no idea some of these existed. The user-agent previewing is my new favorite discovery, really well done.
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Patrick Rhone, writing about your two brains:
This is also not to say that you can’t both be fast and good — you can. This is just to say that the chances of you doing your best work are far greater if you allow your slow brain to engage and evolve at the same rate as the fast. If you take your time. If you slow down.
Local newspapers, news deserts, and simple stuff:
But truly, there’s no divine law nor any practical argument to explain why newspapers are the preferred caretaker and distributor of community information.
Stijn does a great job illustrating why local newspapers are not irreplaceable.
My Gettysburg oration: A vision for journalism that can long endure:
But let’s be honest: Most of the content we publish isn’t stories. It’s news. It’s facts. It’s information. Let’s respect the pure, traditional story – the narrative string of paragraphs – by reserving that form for real stories that have story elements such as plot, character, setting and theme.
This whole speech is phenomenal.
There’s no such thing as an objective filter: Why designing algorithms that tell us the news is hard. An objective filter for news may not be the algorithm we need, but that doesn’t mean the right filter is any less difficult to build.
Sustainable quality | via Daniel.
Sweep the Sleaze. Our sites don’t need 37 pieces of flair.