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My guest post on Journalism 2.0

Just a quick note to point out a recent project I’ve been experimenting with. Some of you might have seen me tweeting some nonsense about programming a feed generator tool recently. Mark Briggs must have lost a bet or something, because he let me write about it over on his site, Journalism20.com.
Essentially this tool takes [...]

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How Short Links Can Solve Ginormous Problems

My brother Mike is living in Vancouver, and besides being a pretty awesome graphic designer (he worked on Megedeth’s site!) he has also been helping to promote his friends’ band, Magnus Rising. He’s perpetually working on their webpage, and is always considering new and interesting ways to promote their stuff. The other day we were [...]

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On Transparency

The other day I received a China-related newsletter update. For the purposes of this post there’s no need to mention which company it came from. But I do want to point out one little detail that irked me just enough to make me unsubscribe. It’s not a mortal sin, but one that deserves attention I [...]

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Learn Programming from Scratch

Finding programming study resources is tough. I mean, there’s no shortage of material out there on the internet, but from a total beginner’s perspective I’ve always found it hard to know where to start. So many tutorials assume some prior knowledge which I just didn’t have.
Here are a few links that I’ve found which stand [...]

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