Tomorrow, In a Year [The Knife]
november 2010
In collaboration with Mt. Sims and Planningtorock.
electronic
music
knife
november 2010
Rap News vs News World Order (The war on journalism) [YouTube]
october 2010
Robert Foster, The Juice, Julian Assange.
rap
news
satire
comedy
video
politics
critique
independent
media
government
from twitter
october 2010
The Art of Fiction No. 206: Michel Houellebecq [Paris Review]
october 2010
Michel Houellebecq, The Art of Fiction No. 206 interviewed by Susannah Hunnewell.
author
writer
houellebecq
fiction
interviews
from instapaper
october 2010
How to make WordPress URLs root relative [456 Berea Street]
october 2010
Roger Johansson continues with the useful WordPress tips.
wordpress
code
tips
urls
from instapaper
october 2010
Review of popular web font embedding services [Smashing Magazine]
october 2010
I had no idea there were so many.
webfonts
webapps
type
design
october 2010
More than 100 free email templates from world-class designers - Blog - Campaign Monitor
october 2010
David Greiner. Updated Campaign Monitor template gallery.
email
design
marketing
html
css
css3
october 2010
Gradual engagement boosts Twitter sign-ups by 29% [LukeW]
october 2010
Luke Wroblewski talks through the changes in the Twitter sign-up process and how it improved their engagement measures.
forms
twitter
usability
ux
design
october 2010
Are the financial markets turning on climate? [Paul Gilding]
october 2010
According to @paulgilding more money was invested in renewables in 2008 and 2009 than in fossil fuels.
climate
change
fossil
fuels
renewable
energy
capacity
tipping
point
global
warming
from instapaper
october 2010
Creating a hierarchical submenu in WordPress [456 Berea Street]
october 2010
Roger Johansson with some useful WordPress customisation tips.
wordpress
code
tips
menus
ui
customisation
theme
from instapaper
october 2010
Best of a new trove of mind-blowing space photos [Wired]
october 2010
Cool shots from the ground of the Milky Way.
space
photos
stars
galaxies
october 2010
Annette Stewart: biography of Barbara Hanrahan [The Book Show]
october 2010
Annette Stewart talking to Peter Mares: Hanrahan writes of “people possessing other people.”
author
writing
books
novels
fiction
interview
psychology
october 2010
Captio for iPhone [Boonbits]
october 2010
Reviewed by Jon Hicks.
apple
iphone
app
utility
email
notes
october 2010
Displaying and optimizing ALT text in popular email clients [Campaign Monitor]
october 2010
Ros Hodgekiss on how major desktop and web based e-mail clients handle alt text for images.
email
clients
accessibility
usability
marketing
images
reference
october 2010
Organic egg scorecard [The Cornucopia Institute]
october 2010
Listing of rated and verified farms that raise hens using healthy and humane methods.
eggs
food
sustainability
farms
production
ratings
reviews
october 2010
What ‘Like’ buttons mean for web traffic [Mashable]
october 2010
Jolie O’Dell on the effect of adding the Facebook Like button to your site.
facebook
social
metrics
analytics
engagement
marketing
media
october 2010
Shake the blues by overriding Yahoo! Mail’s default link color [Campaign Monitor]
september 2010
Ros Hodgekiss on how to overcome the blue link problem with HTML email on Yahoo! Mail.
html
email
yahoo
mail
howto
design
css
september 2010
5 Facebook privacy tips you need to know now [AllFacebook]
september 2010
Nick O’Neill’s overview from before the simplified settings still has a lot of good information especially on the fine-grained Custom settings.
privacy
facebook
information
security
howto
september 2010
The Facebook places privacy settings you need to know [AllFacebook]
september 2010
Nick O’Neill with suggested settings for the new Places feature. Most important thing here is probably to prevent other people from being able to check you in to places.
facebook
places
privacy
howto
reference
information
security
september 2010
How to change your name on Facebook [AllFacebook]
september 2010
Apparently you can. Brian Ward explains howto.
facebook
privacy
names
howto
information
security
identity
september 2010
A new way to embed YouTube videos [YouTube API Blog]
september 2010
New Flash/HTML5 embedding method for YouTube vids.
web
youtube
html5
video
mobile
september 2010
evercookie - virtually irrevocable persistent cookies
september 2010
Samy Kamkar’s detailed run-down of evercookies.
cookies
javascript
privacy
security
code
examples
september 2010
Fluid - an open-source software community
september 2010
From the site: Fluid builds user interfaces, designs commonly used interactions, teaches others how to build good user-centred designs, and works with other software projects to integrate our solutions into their applications. Fluid is a project of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University, funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
accessibility
design
ui
usability
ux
interface
september 2010
Über-zombie cookies give us the fear [The Register]
september 2010
John Leyden on the use of redundant cookie storage methods that make deleting cookies very difficult.
cookies
security
privacy
browsers
september 2010
Web service models in higher education
september 2010
List of references to higher ed web policies, guides, service pages and accessibility statements.
higher
education
accessibility
policy
standards
web
service
september 2010
HTML5 Boilerplate - A rock-solid default for HTML5 awesome.
september 2010
By Paul Irish and Divya Manian.
css
framework
html
html5
javascript
september 2010
CSS3 border images for beautiful, flexible boxes [SitePoint]
september 2010
Louis Lazaris runs through some examples.
css3
design
browsers
standards
howto
reference
september 2010
Developer Release [Diaspora blog]
september 2010
Diaspora is now available as a developer release.
webapps
startups
social
media
networks
september 2010
HTML5 and even fancier forms [SitePoint]
september 2010
Tim Connell outlines new HTML5 form elements.
html5
forms
elements
browsers
javascript
september 2010
Premailer: pre-flight for HTML email
september 2010
By following the principles of JFGI, I present the holy grail of HTML email authoring.
html
email
authoring
css
inline
gmail
clients
utilities
from twitter
september 2010
Cordless Dog: Stay
september 2010
Utility for keeping application windows in place.
mac
osx
software
windows
utility
independent
september 2010
What characters are allowed unencoded in query strings? [456 Berea Street]
august 2010
Roger Johansson looks at the specs.
urls
specifications
standards
august 2010
Dear universities: an open letter about social media and fundraising [Will Marlow]
august 2010
Good advice on how universities should approach social media.
marketing
communication
university
higher
education
social
media
august 2010
Pixel patterns for photoshop [Naomi Atkinson Products]
august 2010
For use as background textures in web page design. Via Dan Cederholm.
design
pattern
patterns
photoshop
textures
resources
august 2010
Louise Doughty - novelist, playwright, critic, UK
august 2010
Interviewed on The Book Show, August 23, 2010.
writing
author
books
publishing
teaching
august 2010
Call for Papers: Settler Colonialism [arena]
august 2010
New issue of Arena Journal will focus on settler colonialism.
colonialism
journal
arena
criticism
culture
indigenous
august 2010
A revised taxonomy of social networking data [Schneier on Security]
august 2010
A data typology for social media internetting.
social
media
theweb
data
taxonomy
classification
user
from twitter
august 2010
Mac OS X Automation: Services
august 2010
Quick overview of Services in Mac OS X Snow Leopard.
mac
osx
automation
scripting
howto
video
august 2010
Antennae galaxy photos [Chandra X-Ray Observatory]
august 2010
Composite image from NASA’s Great Observatories shows Antennae galaxies collision.
space
stars
galaxies
photographs
nasa
telescope
observatory
august 2010
All my bikes: 5, GT Interceptor [chrispiascik.com]
august 2010
Check out the “All my bikes” series by @chrispiascik, especially the shin murderer detail…
illustration
bikes
artist
from twitter
august 2010
Harmony Website Management
august 2010
Hosted content management system build on rails.
cms
design
development
tools
rails
ruby
hosting
august 2010
40 minimalist icon, symbol and pictogram sets [SpyreStudios]
august 2010
Roundup of some of the best icon sets.
design
icons
minimalism
reference
august 2010
Top 10 programming fonts [Hivelogic]
july 2010
Dan Benjamin’s favourite monospace fonts.
font
fonts
programming
typography
monospace
july 2010
Padlicious
july 2010
Information on automatically building iPad web apps using a Mac.
development
ipad
osx
automation
content
mobile
july 2010
Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0 [W3C]
july 2010
Emotion Markup Language 1.0, second draft includes some interesting discussion, for a W3C spec.
markup
language
eml
emotion
representation
specifications
standards
theweb
from twitter
july 2010
Net Index by Ookla
july 2010
Ranks various locations (from cities to countries), and service providers, on Internet bandwidth.
bandwidth
broadband
data
international
internet
speed
performance
july 2010
Autoresponders are here! [Campaign Monitor]
july 2010
Campaign Monitor’s post introducing their new autoresponder feature gives a good overview of the functionality, pitfalls, benefits and strategies.
bulk
email
marketing
communication
subscrition
july 2010
Unicorn [W3C]
july 2010
Unicorn - “W3C’s Unified Validator”
theweb
markup
language
validation
html
css
standards
utilities
tools
from twitter
july 2010
EWG’s 2010 Sunscreen Guide
july 2010
Locate a sunscreen that won’t poison you.
environment
health
sunscreen
ingredients
toxins
july 2010
410
accessibility
adobe
advertising
agency
agents
aggregation
agriculture
air
america
analysis
analytics
animation
apache
api
app
apple
application
apps
architecture
artist
atom
australia
author
automation
backup
behaviour
books
browser
browsers
bugs
business
cars
change
character
charts
chrome
client
clients
climate
cms
code
collaboration
colour
command
communication
community
compression
conferences
configuration
consumption
content
conversion
cookies
copyright
criticism
css
css3
culture
customer
customisation
data
database
design
designer
development
digital
directory
disaster
dns
documentation
drupal
economics
editor
education
electronic
elements
email
encryption
energy
engagement
environment
error
examples
facebook
farms
fiction
file
film
firefox
flash
flickr
font
fonts
food
forms
framework
free
front-end
galaxies
generator
global
google
government
graphics
grid
gzip
h.264
headers
headlines
higher
history
home
hosting
howto
htaccess
html
html5
http
icons
identifiers
identity
ie6
ie8
illustration
image
images
immigration
independent
indigenous
industry
information
interface
internet
interview
ip
ipad
iphone
ipod
issues
javascript
journalism
jquery
json
keyboard
language
law
layout
leopard
life
line
links
linux
list
location
mac
magazine
magazines
management
map
maps
marketing
markup
media
metadata
metrics
microsoft
mobile
mobility
mozilla
music
mysql
nasa
networks
news
newspapers
online
open
opinion
optimisation
organisations
osx
page
pattern
patterns
performance
personal
photos
php
plugin
plugins
policy
politics
preservation
print
privacy
problem
process
production
programming
psychology
publishing
radio
ratings
reader
reading
reference
regex
regulation
research
resource
resources
reviews
risk
rss
ruby
safari
science
screen
script
scripting
search
security
semantic
server
service
site
social
societas
sociology
software
solving
source
space
specifications
ssl
standards
stars
statistics
storytelling
strategy
support
survey
sustainability
svg
system
technology
testing
text
textile
theweb
time
tips
tool
tools
travel
tutorial
tutorials
tv
twitter
type
typography
ui
unicode
university
urls
usa
usability
user
utilities
utility
ux
video
virtual
visitors
visualisation
w3c
warming
wave
wcag2
web
webapps
webfonts
webkit
weblog
wesleyan
windows
wireframe
wit
wordpress
work
workflow
writing
xml
youtube