One of the great things about Twitter is the plethora of ways in which you can interact with the service. While some disagree, there are many of us who like to catch everything as it goes by. GTweet improves upon the standard Twitter RSS feed by displaying user avatars and by adding the ability to reply to tweets and mark them as a favorite.
- Travis Cannon
Finally found the bottom of my Inbox of work email. I wonder if I can do the same for my personal email too? Hmm... Perhaps another day.
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- Travis Cannon
Oregon and Portland region newspapers are cutting back. Local TV News is only weather, sports, mayhem and fluff. Radio is more talk than news. The Internet is challenging the traditional advertising-based scaffolding for reporting and journalism. The journalism we want and need is dying, dead – or yet to be born. The time has come for new approaches, tools, business models, and media organizations to be built and nurtured. Our democracy demands: Good reporting, which, at least most of the time, requires paying people to do it. A watchdog function – investigative journalism. Fact finders to verify and separate truth from fiction. Where should our local community go from here?
- Travis Cannon
The Web Style Guide site houses an unabridged, online version of the third edition of Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, by Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton. You’ll find the complete text and illustrations from the printed book here under Web Style Guide Online.
- Travis Cannon