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Panos Pictures

Panos Pictures is a London-based photojournalism agency which specialises in under-reported issues from the developing world.

With a fully searchable online database of 10000+ award winning images, Panos is a visual journey through contemporary history.

http://www.panos.co.uk

ASCI

ASCI is an interdisciplinary organisation dedicated to advancing communication between the Arts and Science and Technology.

http://www.asci.org/

Invasion of the Body Switchers

Huge thanks to Andy Clarke and James Edwards for the List Apart article and Javascript CSS switcher that’s been implemented on this site.

This is something we had been discussing for a while, and this is a classy and useful implementation of the idea. If you are thinking of adding some accessibility tools to your site, you could do a lot worse than this extensible (and standard) solution.

http://www.alistapart.com/articles/bodyswitchers/

The Man In Blue

Cameron Adams is The Man In Blue, and his portfolio site is one of the finest examples of standards based design (yes, design, you’ll see what I mean in a minute when you hit that link) I’ve seen. Ever.

http://www.themaninblue.com/news/

Ultimate Drop Down Menu 4.3

UDM is a fully-featured and accessible website menu, that provides useable content to all browsers - including             screenreaders, search-engines and text-only browsers.

http://www.udm4.com/

Using libxslt to process xml files

An introduction to libxslt, the XML processor from the GNOME desktop.

http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/tutorial/libxslttutorial.html#introduction

Reuters picture desk shakeup setting tongues wagging

A sign of the uncertainty in the global picture market, many European employees of media agency Reuters are concerned over rumours that editing jobs may be moving offshore.

Facing a fear that many in smaller agencies have long known, (Getty), Reuters management are thought to want to ‘relocate every job it can to Asia’.

Horst Faas for the Digital Journalist has his ear to the ground on Fleet Street.

http://www.digitaljournalist.org/issue0412/faas-reuters.html