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In my search for workaday happiness, I left another job. This is becoming a habit. This job was one of the dullest things I’ve ever done - filing news via an awful content management system that didn’t let me format pictures properly, wouldn’t let me embed video, and didn’t give me [...]

Using Google Maps in journalism

I’m a big fan of Google maps in general, but it can be particularly useful when you’re trying to illustrate a story about a particular area. I experimented with it here, while writing a story about an alleged attack by the Russian government on Kyrgyzstan’s cyber infrastructure.
This wasn’t a blindingly impressive use of Google maps, [...]

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Word Herder is a site for writers and readers of both fiction and non-fiction. Surf here to read more about useful tools to help you organise your writing and optimise your research. I'm Danny Bradbury and I'm a freelance technology writer writing for the Guardian , the Financial Times, the National Post, Backbone magazine, MSN Canada, and the trade press. Here's a feed showing some of my work.

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