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From Opa-Opa Brewing Company's website:

So rarely are two of my interests so perfectly merged: American Sign Language and Zombies. I don't like embedding YouTube videos generally, but this deserves mention:

Since joining TechTarget, I've gotten occasional e-mails from the ASBPE. None have really been notable, until I was invited to hear ASBPE's "Ten Trends that Could Make (or Break) Our Editorial Careers" (emphasis mine):

Among the 10 trends to be covered:

What, exactly, is a news nugget, and what's in it?

Dave Winer suggests a nugget-of-news is 185 characters, on average. I was skeptical: He came to this number by taking the average New York Times Headline + Summary Description. That's not a news nugget: That's a news pointer.

In programming, a pointer is a reference that tells you where to look for the data, and what kind of data to expect. Kind of like the shortcuts you have on your desktop: They're not the actual documents, web pages or applications you use, but they tell you what you're going to get and take you to it.

Headlines and descriptions aren't the news: They tell you what the news will be, but the news itself is the facts, quotations and new information that make up the article. And while you'll see a lot of headline pointers being passed around on Twitter, any "social media expert" who salivates over Bit.ly statistics will tell you that including these facts, rather than just the headline, will boost interest.

One thing I've been mildly-yet-obsessively entranced with for a number of years is how nicely Gawker plays with thumbnails:

One of the minor irritations of modern web design is that, even you HTML the hell out a blog post to make it look perfect in terms of graphical layout, by the time you trim, sanitize and otherwise disembowel that HTML for your teaser text, at best you'll have something dull, at worst you'll have something that wreaks havoc on the rest of your page. Gawker, however, automatically crops and resizes a photo as needed to create interesting, all-purpose graphic work that can be popped in wherever it pleases.

I was so jealous of the effect that I began working on my own Drupal module to copy it until I realize that, not only does such a module exist, but it's one of Drupal's most popular: ImageCache.