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Eulogy for news voice at Newsless.org – It is both easy and intuitive to pop out a story in news voice. In fact, at its worst, the format encouraged a sort of laziness we still see all the time. But … Continue reading →

Per user site-packages, and environment stew – I really like the idea of packages, by default, be installed in ~/.local/python-X.X/site-packages

An experiment that pits Web-only news readers vs. paper-only readers – Purely unscientific work from Slate, but I'll be interested in the results.

Five features Git should steal from Mercurial – I've been using Mercurial for almost all my personal projects but I've been using git-hg and hosting them on GitHub (since it seems to be gaining mindshare). For now, it's been the … Continue reading →

As the "mainstream" media goes, so do the bloggers – Nieman Lab points out that the study used anything indexed by Google News as mainstream, so that actually includes Nieman Lab. I think the larger point of the study is … Continue reading →