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If you've ever published content on the web, chances are you've a) used a JPEG and b) not known much about what a 'JPEG' actually is. Here's the potted summary: JPEG files are a type of raster image ...

Using Shorthand, RELX achieved a tenfold increase in reads for their internal communications — and saw employee NPS soar by 20 percentage points. After twelve months with Shorthand, Bonhams has ...

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The not-at-all unique story of how we increased Shorthand’s blog traffic by 10x in 8 months — and what went wrong along the way. The biggest threat to success in content marketing is short-term ...

Investigative journalism puts the spotlight on abuses of power, finding stories that are flying under the radar and sharing them in the public interest. Yet cutting-edge twenty-first-century ...

Aperture is one of three camera settings — along with ISO and shutter speed — that impact how well (or not) your photo is exposed. These three settings are often called the ‘exposure triangle.’ So ...

The rapid adoption of ChatGPT led to (or at least unearthed) a sea of generative AI tools designed to help us with everything from manual research to SEO optimisation to bonafide knowledge work. But ...

A significant amount of the world wide web is clumsily designed, hard to navigate, and excludes people based on their abilities or identity. But that doesn’t mean that the case is hopeless. When I ...

The results have been... mixed. Many teams are still embedding Adobe PDF files or using those difficult to read yet strangely omnipresent flipbooks. If you’re on a mobile device for either of these ...

At the time I was deep into university studies, on a stodgy diet of academic articles, doorstop-sized books and dry syllabi. Listicles — sometimes known as list articles or list posts — felt like the ...