I’m normally a “play-it-cool” kinda guy. I don’t like to fawn over people or even go out of my way to meet them. They’re just people. And if they’re well-known people they probably already have enough of that going on and wouldn’t mind a little bit of personal space.
But a combination of [...]
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SXSW Panel: Dogma Free Design
Notes from the panel discussion that is going on right now. I might even liveblog for the first time ever. Yeah, probably not. Click for the shortlist of DOGMA.
SXSW Update
A collection of links, applications (Textmate), presentations (Microformats), and photos (Flickr stream) from the last few days at SXSW 2006. This is a very tiny list — there just are not enough hours in the day for more, but everything on the list is worth checking out.
SXSW Panel: Beyond Folksonomies – Knitting Tag Clouds for Grandma
This panel defined folksonomy and the current state of tagging. During the course of the conversation there were a few suggestions on ways to improve upon the current state of affairs, which is what the panel was really about. I wanted to expand on that part of the conversation.
The Usability of Multiple Columns
As an independent web developer I don’t get to do usability studies for my websites. I have to rely on published studies and common sense. That’s okay: most small businesses can’t afford usability studies but they can, and should, have the best website they can afford.
Google Search Changes
Over the last year I’ve noticed changes to how Google searches. It stopped telling me that “the” and “of” were common words. It started searching for phrases first, then words. Now I can get different search results for the same words by putting them in a different order.
Lightbox JS
Today, my RSS reader popped up with a quick note about Lightbox JS. This is a cool, simple, and standards-compliant script to “pop-up� images without using a pop-up winndow or leaving the page.
The coolest PHP plugin ever
Okay, maybe I’m overdoing it a bit. It depends. Have you ever needed to pull complex data from a media file? Maybe the ID3 data? Maybe the width and height so you can display the object properly?