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WTF, CNN‽

April 28, 2010

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Today, Alexis Ohanian and I released a new project: WTF CNN. We created the site to make it easy to compare CNN’s US front page with news sources from other countries. If you like what you see, pass it on, and check back the next time a big story emerges!

For the nerds: the site uses jQuery for the animations. It also uses a lot of modern CSS3 styling with Modernizr styles to ensure that things play nice in IE. This was my first time playing with Modernizr, and I’m super impressed by its simple approach to feature detection.

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The Hype Machine’s 2008 zeitgeist

January 10, 2009

The folks over at the Hype Machine have created a 2008 music zeitgeist that can best be described as a loving work of information wizardry. To the curious and musically-inclined, it’s an incredible resource for mining the past year’s trends in popular music. To followers of the blogosphere, the Hype Machine’s offering is unique because all of the content is derived from the social web: the rankings were based on individual bloggers’ year-end top lists, the reviews were written by thousands of independent music fans, and the artist photos were shot by a horde of different flickr users.