I’m not usually one for jumping onto various memes, but when Robert tagged me with the “5 blogs that make me think” meme I figured I could turn it into an opportunity to mention a few people whose writings I enjoy and find thought-
Apple today released a public beta of Safari 3, the latest version of their web browser. It has quite a bit of new features, but the biggest news is that Apple Introduces Safari for Windows. Yep, Safari is now officially available for Windows as wel
I finally got around to implementing conditional content here on Snook.ca. I've wanted to do this since I moved to the new design just over a month and a half ago. The left sidebar has a number of elements like the projects I've worked, quick lin
Adages doesn't want to upset the Commercial Closet Association by trafficking in stereotypes, but we have to say one thing is true: Gay people have more fun.
LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- It's the day of reckoning for taxpayers and not a bad time to assess the state of finances for the average American family. How are consumers doing? It's a mixed picture.
With blogging comes great responsibilty. You define the content of your weblog and you carry the full responsibility for every word you've published online. More than that, you are responsible for comments in your posts. To make sure you fulfill you
We all love beautiful, usable and impressive web designs. To achieve them, web developers need to focus on many aspects, but basically it all boils down to the question, how well the content is presented and how easily the information can be perceiv
This is a really good video showing how the web 2.0 is changing communications and the ways we use the web The video was created by Michael Wesch and he describes it as "Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes". Advertisement:
Last Friday saw the launch of arguably the most hyped interaction-design driven (and marketed!) product ever: the iPhone. And yet…where were Apple’s interaction designers? Those animations, the way the keyboard works, how the touch scree
Farfur, the Islamic Mickey Mouse and star of his own show on Hamas satellite TV, died a brutal death in an episode last week at the hands of an Israeli official after refusing to turn over a deed to his...
I was surfing around checking out some of the popular entries to the PHP framework world today, when I came across this excellent Application Flow Chart diagram over at CodeIgniter. The Flow Chart
Spurred on by this review of GetWebContent.com over at Paul Stamatiou's site, I got to thinking a bit about web content and hiring, defining and measuring good web copywriters. Near the end of his post, Paul asks:
I can't take credit for this idea (lots of people have written about it), but I do have some nice figures to post from a recent change we made on a site that runs with the principle of what we call Converting the Converted. Squeezing more water from
Via Simon Willison, an interesting article - featuring the likes of Adrian Holovaty - that discusses a slow growing movement where newspaper are hiring programmers to help streamline work for journalists while at the same time creating mashups and o
During my work on the CSS selector test for CSS3.info I discovered a number of bugs in the selector implementations of all popular browsers. So I filed a number of bug reports with additional information on how to fix these bugs. It's now five month
A couple of months ago I wrote an article about geotagging, a new feature of Picasa 2.5. Thanks to this new feature you are able to store the location where a photograph was taken by finding the location in Google Earth. Today I am going to expla
Alexander Muse explains on his weblog why Big in Japan uses a slightly modified version of the GPL. In fact, he doesn't even consider it a change or modification, but only a clarification of something that he considers unclear.
Google's Webmail ( Gmail ) has now a new functionality allowing the consultation of a PowerPoint attachment. It is not necessary to install Powerpoint to have this functionality. You can instantly open the file in a new browser window by clicking
As I told you some days ago, I was making a new website, a HDR photo gallery with all my shots. For this website, I'm using Plogger customized a little ;) So here is the url: http://www.hdr-photogallery.com .
Avoid innovation traps. Change leaders will be tempted by three innovation traps. They're so attractive that leaders can expect to fall into one of them--or into all three--again and again.
Years of total quality management (TQM) and customer service improvements have significantly improved the perceived (and actual) quality and value of products and services in many categories. You might think that this would increase customer brand l
Every Sunday I like to take a moment and try to collect some of the blur that was the past week on Branding Strategy Insider and elsewhere. There’s much to take in. It helps that we’re all writing it down…Peter on Change LeadershipImprove systematic