Bookmarks for 27 Jul 2011
- Brad Colbow – Independent Web Designer, Illustrator – The Brads – This is Why Your Newspaper is Dying
Not really on the mark, but the comments (including the author responding to comments) are intelligent and better balanced than the main piece. (journalism newspapers design ) - The Lawrence/Julie & Julia Project
Possibly one of the most frightening and pointless projects known to humankind… "Julie Powell managed to cook/blog her way through all 524 recipes in Julia Child's cookbook in a year, learning valuable life lessons along the way. I hope to learn as much, if not more, by watching the film Julie & Julia every day for a year." (film cooking blog humour ) - Boot To Gecko: Mozilla’s Open-Source, Mobile Answer To ChromeOS | TechCrunch
"Straight from the heart of Mozilla’s developer newsgroup comes news of an ambitious new project: a standalone, web-based operating system. If that concept sounds familiar, I’ve also just described the core of Google’s Chrome OS which we’re beginning to see pop up on netbooks. The big twist? It’s currently being developed for mobile devices. And it’s partially Android-based." (mozilla chrome android operating_systems ) - Photos from Gilb Seminar 2011
(tom_gilb conference photographs ) - 7 mistakes journalists make when covering the debt ceiling debate (& how to avoid them) | Poynter.
I find articles like this are more helpful in explaining a complex issue than an actual explainer. (usa finance economics )
