I love this idea from the New York Times:

Compendium invites readers of The New York Times like you to use articles, imagery, videos, and quotations to tell your own stories using New York Times content. Each collection has a description that you can use to introduce the collection as a whole, and each item in your collection has a place for you to describe what was important, interesting, or funny about it. Once created, you can share your collection or link to it from anywhere. Compendium is also a great place to discover and explore interesting stories through a wide variety of collections created by our readers, editors, and reporters.

There’s been a number of discussions at Ample lately about whether or not using ems for text sizing is worth the headache. As the one who maintains Ample’s baseline getting-started repo, I figured it’s up to me to figure out what’s what.

A routine argument against ems is that they over complicate something so basic such as setting the size of type. So why do we even need ems? Why can’t we just size everything in pixels?

One case for using ems was given 6 years ago by Richard Rutter in this article for A List Apart:

Some great time-saving tips from Caterina Fake here:

• Eliminate or Reduce Media
• Work Offline
• Do less
• Don’t make appointments or schedule meetings.
• Sleep in two shifts.
• Make time less precious.

Be sure to click through to the whole post to read detailed descriptions on each point. Now I need to go do some stuff.

Adobe recently announced the release of Source Code Pro, a monospaced font adapted from Source Sans Pro.

Looks to be worth a try, at least. Pick up your copy here.

A thoughtful piece from Kontra on how far online technology journalism has fallen.

Shouting sells. We’ve known this for a long time. If companies are daft enough to let their ad buyers talk them into spending money on those who shout the most, then publishers would be reckless to leave money on the table. Some publishers say they would like to steer their publications away from yellow journalism, but in a compensation system based solely on pageviews and clicks, they are beholden to a Romneyesque principle: “We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”