March 2010
14 posts
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Internet Statistics and Numbers — Tech Crunchies →
Great site for internet statistics - just a wealth of information here
Mar 30th
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Fascinating Internet Stats
JESS3 / The State of The Internet from JESS3 on Vimeo.
Mar 30th
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CSS Image Opacity / Transparency →
Dead simple code for onmouseover transparency effect (image appears faded but pops up to full opacity when you scroll over it)
Mar 30th
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Expand/Collapse Paragraph - WebDeveloper.com →
Dead simple way to do expand/collapse display with a toggle button function toggleMe(a){ var e=document.getElementById(a); if(!e)return true; if(e.style.display=="none"){ e.style.display="block" } else{ e.style.display="none" } return true; }
Mar 29th
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Interactive Narratives - The Best in Multimedia... →
Mar 26th
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Placehold.it | Tools for News →
How great is this???  just put in your image size and it creates a placeholder image to throw into your code!
Mar 25th
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Many Eyes →
Mar 24th
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50 Great Examples of Data Visualization →
Mar 24th
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Mar 18th
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BBC World Service - SuperPower Nation →
This is so cool.  It’s a live multilingual chat powered by Google Translate.  The interface actually looks really similar to babelwith.me, which is a tool I flagged for myself almost a year ago now. I’ve been saying for a long time that, for international organizations, translation is one of the most exciting areas to watch, and it seems like the BBC is beating us all in diving into...
Mar 18th
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If you ever doubted outreach works...
Step 1: We link to Sudan Watch on our Sudan special report page… Step 2: Sudan Watch catches it and links back to us in a generic post… Step 3: @rovingbandit picks it up and sends out the link on twitter… Step 4: I catch @rovingbandit’s tweet (and, later, the Sudan Watch post itself when I check my RSS reader) and write Sudan Watch a thank you email… Step 5: ...
Mar 17th
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New Google Tool Visualizes Public Data in Animated... →
Mar 10th
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PolicyTool for Social Media →
This is great! It’s a build-your-own social media site that asks you 12 questions and generates a sample social media policy based on your responses. Here’s a sample of what it spits out from Beth’s Blog
Mar 10th
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Yahoo Pipes Regex Tips →
I have been having lots of fun with Yahoo! Pipes recently, and getting a moderate handle on the Regex operator makes it even better. Three that I’ve found super handy thus far: 1) Add a suffix: Replace ($) with SUFFIX $1 2) Add a prefix: Replace (^) with PREFIX $1 3) Remove text: Replace (TEXT) with blank 4) Remove everything in front of text: Replace .*?(TEXT) with blank 5) Remove...
Mar 5th