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If you talk, you repeat what you already know. If you listen, you learn.
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Behind the scenes: The NRA's influence on Congress
Soon after the Dec. 14 school shooting in Newtown, Conn, it became clear that gun control...
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Time roughs up presidents. Photos of Barack Obama on Election Night 2008 look like they were taken much longer ago. Now his face has deeper...
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Syrian children warm themselves at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, in Azaz, Syria, on Dec. 9, 2012. Temperatures dropped to 9 degrees...
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Japanese macaque, commonly referred to as “snow monkeys”, sit next to an open-air hot spring bath, or “onsen” at the Jigokudani (Hell’s Valley)...
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This advert for the Guardian’s open journalism, screened for the first time on 29 February 2012, imagines how we might cover the story of the Three Little Pigs in print and online. Follow the story from the paper’s front page headline, through a social media discussion and finally to an unexpected conclusion
New post on graphics development on @innovations, our WP innovations blog:
When Apple announced early last year that it would not support Flash on the iPhone and iPad, a passionate conversation erupted in the world of web development: Was Flash dead? If not, how would it survive? When should it be used? News developers asked these questions as well, and, at least in our newsroom, the conversation inspired some thinking about how to approach interactive development. Over the past year and a half, there has been steady movement toward more interactivity based on JavaScript and fewer Flash-only experiences.
Last week we published a graphic that compared four federal budget proposals through a series of charts. We used the jQuery library Flot to draw simple, interactive line charts that showed how the debt and deficit would change under the different plans. Flot is very easy to use, flexible and customizable, and is one of many free-to-use JavaScript graphing libraries out there (Dracula, Highcharts and RGraph are a few others). We also built a customized chart with CSS and JavaScript at the bottom of the page to show how different categories of spending would be affected.
