Nasty as they wanna be? Policing Flickr.com
A nice little report on community management at Flickr.
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Tuesday, September 30th, 2008
reboot10 - Jeremy Keith talks about the Transmission of Tradition
Here's the video of my talk from this year's Reboot conference in Copenhagen. I had a lot of fun talking about (and playing) Irish music here.
moomazon
Here's a nifty little mashup from Simon: create Moo cards with book details from Amazon.
Monday, September 29th, 2008
Time to stop showing clients static design visuals | For A Beautiful Web
Andy makes a great case for presenting clients with designs in HTML/CSS rather than flat, fixed, non-interactive graphics.
CSS Systems for writing maintainable CSS | Natalie Downe
It looks like Natalie's presentation at BarCamp London 5 was excellent.
Saturday, September 27th, 2008
This, That and the Other Thing | the human network
Mark Pesce's closing keynote from Web Directions South 2008. Great stuff, as always.
GT!Blog » Why Japan didn’t create the iPod
Could it be that the inability of 8-bit computers to render Kanji had a direct influence on the direction of Japan's electronic product design and economy?
Friday, September 26th, 2008
Maneki Neko - ScottWiki
It's been years since I read this charming Bruce Sterling short story but there isn't a week goes by that I don't think of it. It has grown more relevant over time.
Thursday, September 25th, 2008
Plastics in the 20th Century – post WWII - a set on Flickr
I just want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
Five CSS design browser differences I can live with | For A Beautiful Web
A great article by Malarkey wherein he lists five examples of progressive enrichment (as Dan is wont to call it) complete with side-by-side comparisons. Useful ammo, this.
YouTube - experiencewii's Channel
Nintendo break the third wall to advertise Wario Land.
Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Hamlet (Facebook News Feed Edition).
Oh McSweeney's, does your satisfyingly smug brand of dry wit know no bounds?
arielwaldman wiki / space
Ariel has put together a list of 100 space-related Twitter accounts.
Monday, September 22nd, 2008
Simon Wiffen - Acoustic Singer Songwriter from Leeds
Just for the record, this is a superb example of a bulletproof liquid layout: Simon Wiffen, solo acoustic singer-songwriter from Leeds.
FatBusinessman.com : On Authentication
David has written an excellent comparison of the two differing mindsets when approaching online authentication. In no uncertain terms, OAuth (or an OAuth style authentication) is right and the password anti-pattern is wrong, wrong, wrong.
Jan Chipchase - Future Perfect: Control Over Who You Want to Be
These thoughts on identity control reminded me of The Laughing Man from the first series of Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex (and not just because Jan Chipchase lives in Tokyo): "People like to manage and manipulate (with various degrees…
Design View / Andy Rutledge - USA.gov Redux
At first I thought that Andy Rutledge was trying to make some nuanced satirical point here but it turns out he's just a twunt.
Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
Sawse - Stir it Up! » Blog Archive » 25 Photographs Taken at the Exact Right Time
Animals and sports in serendipitous moments of FAIL.
Camille Seaman Photography -The Last Iceberg Series II - NEW, The Last Iceberg, A Penguin's Life - NEW, The Big Cloud - NEW
Camille Seaman's stunning pictures of icebergs and clouds make me feel small and insignificant. But in a good way.
Flickr: National Maritime Museum's Photostream
Flickr Commons just keeps growing and growing. Now there are wonderful collections of pictures from Greenwich available for us all to peruse and tag.
Pattern Tap : Interface Collection for Design Inspiration
Collections of visual design patterns from web interfaces.
The Art of Jim Denevan
The circlemakers work with vegetation. Andy Goldsworthy works with the landscape. Jim Denevan works with sand.
Ethan Hein | Player1Ready
Judging from the research information collected on Delicious, Flickr and Last.fm, this book proposal—tying together informatics, music and games—could blossom into a great read.
Networks - a set on Flickr
A collection of network diagrams and visualisations from the simple to the sublime.
David Maisel :: Photography :: Works (Fine Art)
The beautiful work of David Maisel, including Library of Dust: “. . . these canisters hold the cremated remains of patients from an American psychiatric hospital. Oddly reminiscent of bullet casings, the canisters are literal gravesites. Reacting …
Tuesday, September 16th, 2008
Typechart - Browse Web Type, Grab CSS.
A handy little tool that's beautifully designed. View typeface/style/size combinations and then grab the CSS.
Twitter is Penis
Taking innocent tweets and replacing the nouns with the word "penis".
SHOUTS & MURMURS: My Gal: Humor: The New Yorker
This article by George Saunders had me giggling from start to finish.
Monday, September 15th, 2008
glossy
A startlingly lovely little short advertising the Getty Center.
isolani - Javascript: @Media Ajax - Day one
Mike has published his notes from day one of @media Ajax in London.
minimalsites | minimal design css gallery
A gallery of minimally designed websites. There are some lovely grid/type-based designs on view here.
Sunday, September 14th, 2008
On Nails, Lipstick, and Redesigns — Unstoppable Robot Ninja
Ethan has redesigned. It's shiny and beautifully proportioned.
Saturday, September 13th, 2008
Flickr Services: Flickr API: flickr.places.placesForUser
This new Flickr API method makes it really easy to get a list of visited places for a Flickr user.
Tetris with jQuery
A decent version of Tetris written using jQuery.
volition (13 September, 2008, Interconnected)
A wonderful short story by Matt Webb, who is clearly still thinking about movement (his theme from Web Directions North earlier this year).
Friday, September 12th, 2008
suda.co.uk/projects/microformats [Moo Stickers]
Thanks to Brian and the Moo API, you can know print your own microformats stickers.
Apple - Accessibility
Apple have gathered all their resources about accessibility into one handy site. I sense the work of James Craig.
Typography for Lawyers
Trying to teach legibility, one legal document at a time.
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
5 Questions for Kevin Meredith « Flickr Blog
Brighton's own Lomokev gets interviewed by Flickr.
Thoughts for an eleventh September: Alvin Toffler, Hirohito, Sarah Palin « Adam Greenfield’s Speedbird
I should be depressed and dispirited after reading this, but the sheer quality of the writing gives me hope.
BrianOberkirch.com – Oh, You Wanted the Douchy Web?
Brian says what we're all thinking (or rather, what we would all be thinking if we actually wasted valuable brain cells thinking about TechC*nt).
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008
Getting Semantic With Microformats, Part 1: rel ~ A Blog Not Limited
A great article by Emily Lewis on the microformats that make use of the rel attribute (rel-tag, rel-license, XFN, etc.).
BBC World Service - Find A Programme - Digital Planet
The BBC were at dConstruct. This podcast episode includes interviews with Steven Johnson, Aleks and the the Dopplr Matts.
YDN UK at dConstruct (Yahoo! Developer Network Blog)
A write-up of dConstruct 2008 from the YDN crew who so kindly co-sponsored the closing party.
Monday, September 8th, 2008
MoreCowbell.dj
Because you can never have too much cowbell.
dConstruct 2008 notes | AlastairC
Alastair's comprehensive notes from dConstruct.
Wiretap Follies
The latest project from by Joshua Green Allen aka Fireland.
A new design | Clagnut § Blogging · Information design · Clagnut news
Richard has launched the redesign he's had bubbling away for a while now. 'Tis lovely and gridilicous.
BBC NEWS | Technology | Where do you think you are?
BBC coverage of dConstruct on "The widening web of location-based web services."
kev/null - Facebook Has License to Sell Your Photos
Kevin points out why you might want to keep your pictures on Flickr rather than Facebook. Like you needed a reason.
Planet Douche : Attus Apparel - Threaded for Liberation
Popping one collar is pretty gay. Popping 3 or 4 collars is super gay. Popping 24 collars ...that shit is hot.
Monday, September 1st, 2008
‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’
Joe's new book will be ready soon. I expect nothing less than the finest wittertainment.
For A Beautiful Web | Creative web site design and development training and workshops
Malarkey has launched his latest project: For A Beautiful Web is a series of web design master class training workshops covering topics including visual design for the web, best-practice XHTML mark-up and CSS, Microformats and practical web access…