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The Guardian's Information Architect, Martin Belam, provides a glimpse behind the scenes at the design process of our World Government Data store.

Do the shows you've seen at Edinburgh deserve some positive karma? Rate them via Twitter using the Ed Twinge realtime fringe review service

A display of archive Guardian World Cup coverage in our Kings Place offices.

During this year's World Cup, The Guardian's offices had a display of our coverage of the tournament from 1950 to 2006. It posed some interesting questions about how we archive our digital content for the future.

Guardian developers at work. Photograph: Ken Lim

In order to improve stability and response times on commenting we've made some changes to the flow of comments through the application. Before we roll these out across guardian.co.uk we're testing the new configuration on this post. This enables us to verify that we've got the setup right and helps keep disruption to a minimum

Wikileaks Afghanistan data: click image for the graphic. Illustration: Paul Scruton for the Guardian

The Wikileaks disclosure of thousands of Afghanistan war records was datajournalism in action. This is how we did it

Before (left) and after: our new picture galleries

Front-end developer Emma Sax explains how - and why - we moved to a full-page gallery experience

Need new ideas for everyday ingredients? Photograph: Alamy

There comes a time of day, usually in the late afternoon, when thoughts drift to the imagined delights of that evening's dinner table. Questions are tweeted, inspiration sought from desk mates and strangers, buck-passing phone calls are made to partners, wheedling tone at the ready, "any ideas for tea tonight?" (or is that just me?). But sometimes inventive colleagues, patient friends and long-suffering partners are not to hand and we're left juggling the contents of our fridges around our imaginations by ourselves. Inevitably, in these moments, many of us turn to the internet.

We've spent some time browsing the many great recipe searches you recommended, thought about how we all search for inspiration at tea time, and today we are pleased to be adding our own ingredient-led recipe search to the mix. Continue reading...

We've launched a new twitterstream today, @GdnLocal, to help hyperlocal websites and local news bloggers across the country stay connected.
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Reading your reactions to our World Cup 2010 Twitter replay visualization made me smile. There's no better affirmation for a web project than seeing it reach people around the world. With readers of every competing nation taking an interest, I thought it might be worth describing how we put it together. As with football, teamwork is everything. Continue reading...

You'll now see Guardian Weekly unique content across the site

Guardian content pages now come equipped with a shortened version of the URL for easier sharing

... and Steve Jobs likes it

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The 2010 'Future of web design' conference set out to cover "the topics that matter most to today's web designers and front end developers, including HTML5, CSS3, jQuery and UX". Guardian Information Architect Martin Belam went along.

To fix the recent problems with our Guardian iPhone app simply delete the app and reinstall the app (please note you will not be charged again should you do this)

We recently made changes to the "tweet this" button on guardian.co.uk, so that it uses a shorter format of our URLs. This is part of some ongoing work to provide useful social media tools on guardian.co.uk pages - and we are interested in getting your views on some of our suggested new features.