Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions.
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Standards
“Led” is the past tense of “lead.” L.E.D. Not L.E.A.D. Example: “Fran, who leads the group, led the meeting.” When professional publications get the small stuff wrong, it makes us less trusting about the big stuff. Trust in media is already at an all-time low. Don’t alienate liberal arts majors and obsessive compulsives. We may […]
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Examining last week’s Verge-vs-Sullivan “Google ruined the web” debate, author Elizabeth Tai writes: I don’t know any class of user more abused by SEO and Google search than the writer. Whether they’re working for their bread [and] butter or are just writing for fun, writers have to write the way Google wants them to just […]
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Who will design the next generation of readable, writerly web layouts? Layouts for sites that are mostly writing. Designed by people who love writing. Where text can be engaging even if it isn’t offset by art or photography. Where text is the point. With well considered flexible typesetting, modular scaling, and readable measures across a full range of proportions and […]
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Unrepentant councillor who quit Labour over party’s plan for cruel cuts in Liverpool responds to complaint after he called for transparency over whitewashed council company that took large amounts of unreceipted cash and doled out support for councillors’ friends and family Liverpool Community Independent Councillor Alfie Hincks, who was one of several to leave the […]
You may not know his name, but he played a huge part in creating the web you take for granted today. And he’s back—kind of.
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