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I tried to answer all of these questions for my own site, but I'm not sure I can. This list is great for determining if your site is reaching your audience and delivering on your goals. Top notch! - Jared Silfies

Simple, yet powerful reference for making typography pop online. - Jared Silfies

Water use is the "new carbon footprint." We're focused on carbon emissions and climate change but our water supply needs attention too. - Jared Silfies

Some useful information for any outdoor enthusiast who likes to go where the paths don't lead. - Jared Silfies

Mindy McAdams did it again with this collection of how-to pieces for using Flash in journalism. - Jared Silfies

Interesting social web service that tracks your productivity in using both desktop and web apps. - Jared Silfies

Chris Amico has compiled a great resource page for journalists to learn and find tools for reporting and presenting news. Excellent project I hope to contribute to eventually. - Jared Silfies

Obsessable has one of the clearest explanations of Twitter that I've read. Props for adding "Twitter in Plain English" to the mix too. - Jared Silfies

Excellent post about creating better layouts with CSS. - Jared Silfies

A basic guide for using jQuery — starting from a "what is it?" to "what is it good for?" and beyond. - Jared Silfies

Excellent walk-through for using Drupal as a CMS. I'll be working on this over winter break. - Jared Silfies

Drupal is so extensible and malleable that specific examples of its power are necessary for understanding how to get started with the platform. - Jared Silfies

Adobe AIR app for streaming RSS feeds onto your desktop. It's handy when I'm not doing anything with intense real estate concerns — like photo processing — but I'd presume it really shines with a second monitor. - Jared Silfies

Create mono, analogous, contrasting, triad and tetrad color schemes. Tons of options, including web safe colors. Simple amazing! - Jared Silfies

It's like a chat room, but with Twitter instead. Rooms are based on #hashtags. - Jared Silfies

Great examples of code for stylish tables using CSS. - Jared Silfies

How to make an appealing and informative graph with Adobe Illustrator - Jared Silfies

Excellent frameworks for developing CSS. Developing time looks drastically shortened. - Jared Silfies

Amazing way to make screencasts and easy to follow directions for performing actions on your computer. Best part? It's free! - Jared Silfies

With 2.7 WordPress is easily moving toward functioning as a full-fledged CMS. - Jared Silfies

Excellent resource for getting data out of Web sites. - Jared Silfies

Allez! - Jared Silfies

It's like Google, but better. More of an aggregator for topics including Twingly, Twitter searches and other sources. - Jared Silfies

When you travel all the time (or work outside of an office) you'll need to know how to be productive with what you've got. Favorite tip: when you've got a meeting and every one has laptops, but there's only one ethernet jack and no wireless, turn your laptop into a makeshift router. - Jared Silfies

I've recently started using Photoshop to mockup Web sites. With that said, there's always room for improvement, and some of these tips come through for creating a professional and clean design. - Jared Silfies

Medill's project of journalists using geography and technology to give audiences information. - Jared Silfies

Don't let your portfolio hold you back! Keep in mind it has to be easy to navigate and clean, regardless of what services you're showing off, otherwise people will stay away. - Jared Silfies

GOOD covers magazines: The best, the brightest, the coolest. Some of these aren't surprising, while some jump out at you. Good compilation. - Jared Silfies

Spell checkers, design aids, SEO optimization ... the list of tools goes on and on. I don't use all of these, but the tools I do are incredibly important. - Jared Silfies

Woo CoPress! - Jared Silfies