Medieval Tips for Modern Letter Writing

If you need to craft a particularly effective email, say to get your girlfriend to forgive your latest mistake, the best(...)

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Feb 18, 12 | 3 min read

The Giving Tree(map)

Treemaps have proliferated fast and far since Ben Shneiderman invented them in 1990. One reason for this quick spre(...)

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Dec 23, 11 | 1 min read

A Line Walks Into a Bar

We all know visualizations can be a great way to represent data, but some visualizations are better than others at certa(...)

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Dec 5, 11 | 1 min read

The world’s longest news story

When Reuters closed its liveblog of the triple disaster in Japan after 14 days of live reporting, the resulting story wa(...)

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Apr 6, 11 | 1 min read

Avoiding Peacock and Weasel Terms

The peacock is an impressive-looking bird and the weasel is a shrewd little predator. They certainly have their place in(...)

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Mar 8, 11 | 3 min read

B2B vs. B2C Writing

B2B writing versus B2C writing is a complex matter, but here it will be attempted to simplify the matter as best as poss(...)

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Nov 29, 10 | 2 min read

HTTPS proxy an API using Nginx

Have you ever been faced with using a JSONP API for your favourite service, only to have your HTTPS site throw complaint(...)

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Aug 25, 10 | 2 min read