wrapping up 2007 (28 December 2007, Interconnected)
A brilliant braindump by Matt Webb examining the weave of the Web and the nature of reality. Set aside some time to soak this up.
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Sunday, December 30th, 2007
Saturday, December 29th, 2007
Web design 2.0 - it’s all about the resource and its URL « Derivadow.com
A great article about designing for what Tom Coates calls a "web of data", emphasising the importance of making sure that a resource sits at one URL.
Music Recording Industry Will Be First Traditional Media Industry To Be Utterly Destroyed By Digital Technology - Publishing 2.0
The RIAA now says it is illegal for you to put that CD you bought onto your own computer. Asshats.
Friday, December 28th, 2007
End of Support for Netscape web browsers - The Netscape Blog
Netscape Navigator is officially dead. Rest in peace, my old adversary.
Is it jeremykeith's Birthday?
You've seen isitchristmas.com, istwitterdown.com and dowebsitesneedtolookexactlythesameineverybrowser.com. Now Gareth Rushgrove has built isitbirthday.com. Subscribe to the RSS feed just in case you were wondering when my birthday is.
Thursday, December 27th, 2007
TypeTrust
Epic is a lovely looking new typeface from Neil Summerour.
From The Magazine : Radar Online : Cory Doctorow imagines a world in which Google is evil
Scroogled is a short story by Cory Doctorow that's especially timely.
Let’s Jailbreak the iPod touch 1.1.2 with OS X « RupertGee’s iBlog
A step-by-step guide to hacking your iPod Touch even if you've already upgraded to the new firmware.
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007
David Byrne's Survival Strategies for Emerging Artists — and Megastars
A brilliant summation by David Byrne of the possible business models available to musicians today.
Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
Podcast: Welcome to Tech weekly from the Guardian | Technology | Guardian Unlimited
There's a new technology podcast available from The Guardian. It's hosted by Aleks and judging from the first episode, it's going to be very good indeed.
The Humble Gourmand - Home
A new webzine dedicated to food, prettily put together by M. Jackson Wilkinson.
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007
cityshrinker
Lots of tiltshift photos gathered together in one place.
ongoing · In The Audience
Tim Bray echoes my thoughts on conferences. "And let’s be brutal: at most conferences, there are two ways to get a talk accepted: submit an interesting talk, or bribe the conference organizer. Oops, sorry: I meant “be a platinum sponsor”."
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
The Hugh Grant Squid Test
A dictionary of all-sorts. An enpsychlo-blog. A compendium of ancient wisdom of modern usage. History, philosophy, and the world around you. A "Who's who?", a "How's when?" and "What on Earth is it?" A token nod in the direction of truth and a dip in the
John Resig - Sexy Firefox 3
If you want to install the beta of Firefox 3 on OS X but you still want to keep a copy of Firefox 2, John will show you how.
IEBlog : Internet Explorer 8 and Acid2: A Milestone
Great news from Redmond: IE8 passes the Acid2 test.
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007
Clichés are hard
An offhand remark I made on Twitter spurs Dom on to do a whole lotta research on character encoding in class names.
QuirksBlog: Opera's antitrust complaint and political control of web standards
PPK points out a potentially dangerous aspect to Opera's actions, one that that the rest of us have missed: "Without consulting anybody, Opera is trying to give a political body the right to decide what does and what does not constitute a web standard."
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007
Cognitive accessibility of user interfaces summarised in an oversimplified rule // plasmasturm.org
The Sapir WIMP hypothesis: "The more easily you can talk about a user interface, the more easily you can understand how to manipulate it."
evhead: Will it fly? How to Evaluate a New Product Idea
Ev Williams has some tips for evaluating business ideas, broken down by tractability, obviousness, deepness, wideness, discoverability, monetizability (ugh!) and the all-important "personally compelling" factor.
Saturday, December 15th, 2007
Christmas Jesus Dress Up!
Yours to cut out and keep.
Friday, December 14th, 2007
No Ideas But In Things
"No Ideas But In Things is a library of controls, animations, layouts, and displays that might be a source of inspiration for interaction designers. Dan Saffer is the curator. The title comes from a William Carlos Williams poem."
Official Google Blog: Encouraging people to contribute knowledge
Google have a service called Knol on the way. It looks like it's going up against Wikipedia.
Wednesday, December 12th, 2007
Merriam-Webster Online
The word w00t has been voted Merriam-Webster word of the year 2007. Slow year.
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
Do websites need to look exactly the same in every browser?
Like "is it Christmas?" or "is Twitter down?" but less Boolean.
Monday, December 10th, 2007
Tweets - Overheard.it
A "barnacle app" that pulls out all the overheard quotes from Twitter.
Preoccupations: Adactio hits St Paul's
David follows up on my talk at St Paul's with cornucopia of thoughts and links that's more in-depth than the talk itself.
Friday, December 7th, 2007
R2D2 Translator
Type a word, hear it from Artoo.
Thursday, December 6th, 2007
Developer's Guide - Google Chart API - Google Code
All the code you need to add charts and graphs to your site.
Vitamin Features » Creating Sexy Stylesheets
Jina has put together an excellent series of steps you can take to keep not just nice, but downright sexy.
The Magical Minimalism of Microformats - Open - Code - New York Times Blog
This makes me feel all warm and fuzzy: the New York Times talking about microformats.
HEMA - online winkelen
A very cute bit of e-commerce chicanery.
Wednesday, December 5th, 2007
nclud's Sketchbook | Cindy Li nclud'ed
Cindy is now working for nclud. That's good for Cindy and good for nclud.
Saturday, December 1st, 2007
Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy: Tracking users who opt out or are not logged in. - CA Security Advisor Research Blog - CA
An excellent piece of research that shows how Facebook affiliates' cross-site scripting (Beacon) sends information back to the mothership regardless of whether the user has opted out.
disambiguity - » Design Ethics - Encouraging responsible behaviour
Leisa joins in on the password anti-pattern. As she says, this is a question of ethics. I've already made my position clear to my colleagues and clients. Have you?