Avoid using underlines (except in hyperlinks and annotations)
Good typography is everyone’s job. Readability and usability have a pretty direct impact on how your ideas get taken up….
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Canadian media: Where are they now?
The podcast production company Media Girlfriends has had an impressive three years! Led by journalists of colour Nana aba Duncan,…
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External link icon shortcode preference
There are a number of WordPress plugins that will allow you to apply external link icons automatically, but that’s not…
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Divorce Party, by Lisa Baird
Watch more by Lisa Baird. Source
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Comics creator Sam Hester: How visual storytelling creates better health care
Sam Hester is a graphic recorder and comics creator in Calgary. This TED talk is a brilliant insight into the…
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Bad beliefs: Misinformation is factually wrong – but is it ethically wrong, too?
The impact of disinformation and misinformation has become impossible to ignore. Whether it is denial about climate change, conspiracy theories…
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In praise of water: World Water Day
Since 1993, people around the world have been marking March 22 as World Water Day (WWD), an opportunity for everyone…
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Rejecting science has a long history – the pandemic showed what happens when you ignore this
Fear engulfed everyone during the pandemic. Yet when a vaccine became available, it was met with fierce resistance. Anti-vaccination crowds…
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About QR codes
I’ve never been a particularly big fan of QR codes. I like the idea of them. But I’m just not…
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Research: trolls don’t just enjoy hurting others, they also feel good about themselves
There is an urgent need to understand why people troll. Recent Australian estimates show about one in three internet users…
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At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast: a review
At Sea with the Marine Birds of the Raincoast, by Caroline Fox, provides a comprehensive summary of the many marine…
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How to be at home, by Andrea Dorfman
Youtube | How To Be At Home Andrea Dorfman | provided by the National Film Board of Canada… Source
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Grief, destruction, and The Magnitude of All Things
Lands are being changed. People were born on these lands. They live there and have families and ancestors there. These…
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Putting pages into a WordPress RSS feed
Every once in a while I want to put pages into an RSS feed on a self-hosted WordPress site. When…
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Microplastics research in the Okanagan: media roundup
On World Water Day 2022, our Microplastics Okanagan team and project partners published a press release about the Microplastics In…
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You can write your titles last
Writing is a joy. But it’s also the other stuff. Don’t make writing more painful than it needs to be;…
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Ongoing study of microplastics in Okanagan Lake being conducted with community collaboration
In what we hope will be a watershed moment for raising awareness of microplastics and their impact on both our…
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Contract Position: Communications Coordinator
The successful candidate will be a highly organized individual with strong writing skills and a knack for writing and sharing key messages/stories that communicate impact. …
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How to understand police violence
Amidst the grief, disbelief and justified outrage at the killing of African Americans, many people want to make sense of…
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You bought it, but do you own it?
This discussion of ownership, values, and digital property is great. Deeplink… Source
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Removing background noise in Audacity
I always forget how to do this! Select some sample noise Select Effect > Noise Reduction Click on Get Noise…
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Well designed scissors
Sometimes things that look simple, just aren’t. It’s fascinating to me that there’s a team of putter togetherers. Learn more…
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An ode to obsolescence
They say you’re too old. (In dog years, you’re barely a teenager.) They say the firmware can no longer be…
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Looking for a new feed to post aggregator
For the last couple of years, we’ve been aggregating the dispatches from the people in our network. We do this…
