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23rd September 2003

The Business Value of Web Standards

“I’ve been involved in the Web standards community almost as long as I’ve been working on the Web, and I’ve long felt that designing to W3C recommendations is the Right Thing To Do. When it came time to redesign the adaptivepath.com site, my partners agreed that we should approach the project from a standards perspective. But before we started, we discussed whether the effort — and it was a lot of effort — was really worth it.”

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23rd September 2003

Barbara Tversky: Some Ways Graphics Communicate

“Notes: External representations are in essence cognitive tools. Cognitive artifacts (e.g. graphics) are human only. There are no examples of animals using cognitive tools.”

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23rd September 2003

Top 100 works of journalism in the US in the 20th century

“As selected by Madeleine Blais, Alan Brinkley, David Brinkley, Lydia Chavez, Karen Durbin, Clay Felker, Jeff Greenfield, Pete Hamill, Mary McGrory, Nancy Maynard, Eric Newton, Dorothy Rabinowitz, Gene Roberts, Morley Safer, David Shaw, George Will and Ben Yagoda… and the New York University Journalism faculty.”

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23rd September 2003

Barbara Tversky: Some Ways Graphics Communicate

“Notes: External representations are in essence cognitive tools. Cognitive artifacts (e.g. graphics) are human only. There are no examples of animals using cognitive tools.”

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23rd September 2003

Color scheme

Yet another slick color picker.

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