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Doc Searls Weblog – Futures of the Internet

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

Doc Searls Weblog ? Futures of the Internet.

The Pixies The Everybody

Wednesday, March 10th, 2010

The Everybody. new album, various formats, streaming from the site too.
And here is a write up of the extended album format at topspinmedia.com and other geekness for those interested.

Bird and the Bee and Hall and Oates

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Equals awesome! Love Bird and the Bee, plus a Hall & Oates cover album to boot, “Interpreting the Masters, Vol. 1: A Tribute to Daryl Hall and John Oates“! I recommend their this album too: Ray Guns Are Not Just the Future
This Spin post has an embedded song: Rich Girl
Bird and the Bee Perform [...]

Jeff Jonas: On A Smarter Planet … Some Organizations Will Be Smarter-er Than Others

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Jeff Jonas: On A Smarter Planet … Some Organizations Will Be Smarter-er Than Others.

Decent roundup of typography on the web

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

I really appreciate this article simply because it links to many, ?near canonical past articles from others in our field. It takes a lot of work, technically (aside from typographically) to get this right, I hope it get’s better soon.
One other resource for fonts I am keeping an eye on is an open source place [...]

The Technium: The Game-ified Life

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

You should watch this talk on the future of games by game designer Jesse Schell. It is the most mind-changing talk I've heard in many years. There were so many new ideas in it, and they went by so fast, that I have already watched it twice and will probably watch it once more. It's [...]

7 Tips To Get Better Video from a DSLR Camera

Thursday, March 4th, 2010

7 Tips To Get Better Video from a DSLR Camera.

Smart Use of custom fields in WordPress

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Secondary HTML Content (WordPress plug-in) « C. Murray Consulting.
I can’t wait to see what we can do with post types. I’m just digging into WP after burying myself in a proprietary mid-tier CMS which is good for what it does but it lacks soooo much in comparison.

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Why, oh WHY, do those #?@! nutheads use vi?.

We Feel Fine

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

We Feel Fine / by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar.
An exploration of human emotion, in six movements
I simply love projects like this that are really just interesting robots.

dBelement – Amazing web app for iPhone (android?)

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

This is it … the now of applications? This Stanza/Kindle like reader for your mobile device does offline storage of books but it’s only a webapp, it’s not a binary, device specific application. Leaps and bounds, this is the future for general content applications. I have long thought it strange that publications release device specific [...]

inessential.com: On switching away from Core Data

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

Some very good explanations of Core Data vs. a database. Thanks!
inessential.com: On switching away from Core Data.

iui – framework for iPhone webapps

Saturday, February 27th, 2010

iui – Project Hosting on Google Code.

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010

Ian Coyle / Superheroes, Inc. / Design / Interactive / Letterpress / Denver.
Nice simple site…

Singing the Wrong Tune

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

In his op-ed piece titled “The Fat Lady Sung” Thomas Friedman says “Welcome to the lean years” and?talks in sweeping platitudes of our demise:
Indeed, to lead now is to trim, to fire or to downsize services, programs or personnel. We?ve gone from the age of government handouts to the age of citizen givebacks, from the [...]