Design

Thirty-Four Feeds and a Philosophy

The Citizen’s Daily Brief ingests news from thirty-four RSS feeds. That number started at twenty-seven, and grew incrementally during testing. It grew because the original list had a gap that would have undermined credibility: it didn’t include enough sources from across the political spectrum to claim it was seeing the full picture. The CDB isn’t a political product — it’s apolitical by design, and keeping it that way meant expanding the source feeds.

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Who Briefs the Public?

I need to start with an honest admission: I thought this project was too ambitious. I assumed I was being naive and borderline arrogant to even consider it. There, I said it.

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Every Skateboarder's First Question, Answered With a Sticker

The first thing a skateboarder asks when they roll up to a new ramp is some variation of the same question: “What’s the tranny?”

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