Link: WorldChanging: Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
"But media is actually a triathlon, it 's three different events. People like to consume, but they also like to produce, and they like to share."
Link: Chris Shiflett: URLs Can Be Beautiful
"Instead of thinking purely in hierarchies, I wanted to also make the URLs powerful statements that stand on their own."
Link: hatom - Microformats
blog post microformat - need to keep this in mind when retweaking my blog
Link: Edge: BETTER THAN FREE By Kevin Kelly
"In the digital arena, generative qualities add value to free copies, and therefore are something that can be sold."
Link: Animated in-progress indicator for long running pages - Stillnet Studios
not the cleanest code, but a good starting point
Link: With friends like these ... Tom Hodgkinson on the politics of the people behind Facebook | Technology | The Guardian
Sounds a bit conspiracy-ish, but still, just another reason or two to steer clear of facebook.
Link: Trading for their own account
"Everyone applauds when Google goes after Microsoft's Office monopoly, seeing it simply as "turnabout's fair play," but when they start to go after web non-profits like Wikipedia, you see where the ineluctible logic leads."
Link: Airbag - Fail.
"Here's an idea: make fantastic products and services and stop trying to control the citizen voice. It only comes back to haunt you. Always has, always will."
Link: Dash - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Useful ref for when I've forgotten which dash should be used where.
Link: A Special Offer: TextDrive, Strongspace and Joyent
Mixed Grill account setup (so I don't forget what my account details are)
Link: scRUBYt! - a Simple to Learn and Use, yet Powerful Web Scraping Toolkit Written in Ruby
Link: gapingvoid: "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards": the end-user manifesto
Link: The ultimate webdesign usability checklist at Not Usable
Extensive list of things that should be done for every website!
Link: A List Apart: Articles: Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds
super easy gradients without too much time spent in photoshop/fireworks/gimp

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