Sarah

Recent attacks at Mumbai have splurged talk of information-age aided citizen journalism this week on NPR’ s “On The Media”. Citizen’s used Twitter and Flickr to report breaking news as the events unfolded, and for some was their only source of information. Very organized restraint and professional journalistic conduct came out of the mass twittering, as the mainstream news channels in India aired what some are accusing as ‘too much sensitive information’ that may have aided the terrorists. I am exited to see ‘new media’ and a simple twitter feed aiding and taking a role with ‘mainstream media’, especially after I just read an article yesterday that discredited Twitter as a declining fad.

I revisited Citizendium today, Wikipedia’s offshoot project that aims to create an online encyclopedia , “gently guided by experts”.  While it is still in beta, it is growing quickly, over 8,000 articles now. On their blog I found this Garrison Keillor poem from Thanksgiving, that mentions Larry Sanger, (creator of Citizendium, co-founder of Wikipedia), Fairbanks, blogs, google and most importantly Mac and Cheese…

Relating to the CS4 preview. These guys made a real life Photoshop creative suite.

I have added the ‘Hyperwords‘ extension to firefox and it has made browsing the web and information finding even easier. You can click on any text in on web page, and find information out instantly wiithout searching in google or opening up a new tab, Say I click on the word “Alaska”, the pop-up menu brings it up instantly in wikipedia, google, a dictionary, a map, photos in flickr. You can also translate in page into a variety of different languages and currencies.

You can highlight a word on the page and it will highlight every other instance of the word.

In the settings, you can add your own commands. you can enter in your delicious and wordpress accounts and set up to send urls instanly to a specific email.

One command I found especially efficient, but is not set by default, is the ‘Auto content’. You click on the far left of any page and it indexes the content for you, and acts as achor links.

Lots of other features, too, and customizable.

As I was researching resources for Style Guide materials (and creating new tongue twisters), I found this site relevant to styles on the web: http://webtypography.net It is a decent complimentary tool for the Elements of Typographic style by Bringhurst.

We all see sites daily be the victim of bad readability and flow. Or are we the victim?

My wondered back in the day when I acknowledged CSS as something I should be keeping up on.

I still like to visit CSS Zen Garden every so often to see whats new and check out the code.