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Irkafirka: daily cartoon for a digital age
A quick hat-tip today to the excellent Irkafirka, who took me up on the challenge of illustrating one of those vague metaphorical conceits record labels use to confuse reviewers recently.
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Friday playlist: Everything Everything picks…
Those of you with Spotify and your boss' permission to plug in your headphones at work rejoice; Mancunian art rockers Everything Everything pick their favourite tracks for this week's playlist.
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Traffic to independent.co.uk from Egypt
I love graphs, but some are just frightening. See, right, traffic to Independent.co.uk from Egypt over the last few days, following the government’s decision to cut off access to the internet . Follow...
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Friday playlist: Sugarland
This week’s Friday playlist comes via Sugarland. Listen to it here on Spotify and read the American duo’s explanation of the reasoning behind their selections below. The National – Terrible Love This...
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The Listening Post: New York, New York
Each week, I'll be posting an update on developments in the field of digital publishing, particularly from a newspaper perspective, and mentioning developments from The Independent digital team.
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The Listening Post: Down with aggregators! (And what is an aggregator, anyway?)
A brief history of the aggregator debate, and other developments in the digital publishing world this week.
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The Listening Post: Hackers, identity crises and Google’s Panda diplomacy
This week's update from the world of digital newsgathering and the place to let us know your thoughts on The Independent and i's digital operations.
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Introducing Recently Read
In the buzz of actually launching Recently Read, the new Facebook Open Graph app we built and released for F8, it struck me over the weekend that I’d neglected to actually write about what exactly...
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The Independent in Washington Post Social Reader
Since we launched Recently Read last September, 4 million users have installed our Facebook open graph app to share their reading activity with their friends. Unlike other Facebook open graph apps, we...
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Goodbye to @TheIndyNews, hello to The @Independent
We’ve just changed the name of our Twitter account to @Independent from @TheIndyNews. Back in the heady days of 2009, Twitter was growing in popularity fast and great usernames were snapped up left,...
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Bringing music to Independent.co.uk: Our Spotify partnership
This morning we’ve partnered with Spotify for the launch of their new Play Button. Spotify are a company on an incredible trajectory, now available in 13 countries (including the US) with over 10...
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The Independent on Google Currents
Last night Google launched their mobile application Currents outside the US, and we’re delighted to be amongst the featured publishers for the international launch.
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