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Google puts LIFE photo archive online

Article online since November 19th 2008 and was viewed 13 times
Just in time for Christmas for photojournalism fans, the vast photo archive of Time Inc.’s picture brand LIFE is now available for free public perusal on Google. images.google.com

Millions of full-screen-resolution photos from LIFE magazine’s historic archive will be available on Google Image ...

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Nextdoor neighbour?

Article online since November 14th 2008 and was viewed 50 times
The compression of a telephoto lens has the Pines Hotel seemingly at the end of Birch Street. The resort, in reality on the far side of the Racquette, closed for the season Thanksgiving weekend and reopens in early May. ...

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Avoiding ‘Information Pollution’

Article online since November 14th 2008 and was viewed 50 times
“Studies of content usability typically find that removing half of a website's words will double the amount of information that users actually get.”

Interesting, eh?

Or should I just say, Interesting.

The remark about content usability is from Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox in an article p ...

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Courier stories that smolder away

Article online since November 13th 2008 and was viewed 43 times
There’s no news like old news.

One of the ways to get to know a community is to leaf through old copies of its newspaper, and I’ve been doing that for years with my Through the Pages column. For those who wonder, copies of the old Courier issues are on spools of microfilm stored in Digby’s ...

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November dawn

Article online since November 13th 2008 and was viewed 34 times
Broken clouds obscured today’s rising sun, but the gulls up and looking for breakfast. ...

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