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100pc growth encourages Guardian to add more community content

By Julie Starr | Published: March 17, 2008
The Guardian is increasing community content as part of the ongoing redesign of its website, working closely with social media company Pluck, according to journalism.co.uk.
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Reason to love guardian.co.uk #23

By Julie Starr | Published: February 24, 2008
The embedded media player that lets you listen to podcasts on the page you're reading. Much nicer than those swirly patterns normally served up with audio.
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Page numbers add context for online readers

By Julie Starr | Published: February 24, 2008
I notice the Guardian has added a nice little feature at the bottom of stories which shows which page the story ran on in the paper, if it did, where it was first published and when it was last updated online.
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Guardian puts its correspondents on the map

By Julie Starr | Published: February 23, 2008
The Guardian has a Google map showing the locations of its staff around the world. To be fair, it's probably one of few papers with enough foreign-based staff to warrant using a world map. But still, it's a nice idea and would work just as well with a national or regional map.
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London’s Camden Market is on fire: anatomy of a breaking news story

By Julie Starr | Published: February 10, 2008
9.30 this morning, NZ time: News of a big fire in London’s Camden Market reaches me on Twitter via a news feed from Netherlands-based BreakingNewsOn. They seemed to be getting information from Sky TV. By 10am NZ time, the Guardian had a picture and good story up complete with eye witness reports. The Times had [...]
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