LINKS FROM December 2005
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IFILM's best viral videos of 2005. Clearly there are some fantastic videos I missed this year.
Tags: video viral funny bestof2005
Our Favorite Fonts of 2005 Part 1
Typographica's favortie fonts from the first half of 2005 . . . for whatever reason I love reading about typography . . .
Tags: bestof2005 font typography
The needle, the vise... and the baby rattle
An intelligent Seth Godin post about three different approaches to reaching consumers and why they work/don't work.
Tags: marketing
Matt Brett hooks everyone up with Illustrator and Photoshop versions of the new "standard" RSS icons.
Tags: icons rss illustrator photoshop
Passion of the Spaghetti Monster
A Wired interview with Bobby Henderson, creator of Pastafarianism.
Tags: funny interviews intelligentdesign religion
Aaron Swartz gives a quick rundown of how AJAX came to be. Very interesting stuff.
Designers: New York Commuters Need You!
Choosing new fonts for those signs asking for rides in and out of New York.
Tags: typography nyc design
Five questions on the role of the CMO and the future of marketing, as answered by Howard Handler, chief marketing officer for Virgin Mobile USA.
Tags: business marketing interviews mobile branding
For those nights when you aren't in any shape to direct the cab driver home.
Tags: funny
Google launched their personalized search trends page that even lists what other people who share your search interests searched for themselves. Number one thing people like me searched for: "blowfly alarm clock."
Pitchfork: Top 50 Albums of 2005
No matter how obnoxious Pitchfork may be, and they are pretty much unrivaled in that category, their year-ed best of list is always fantastic.
Tags: bestof2005 music
Erik Spiekermann - typography and design today
"Erik Spiekermann calls himself an information architect. He is equally comfortable and prolific as a writer, graphic and typeface designer."
Tags: design typography interviews
How to bring the information buried deep in your blog forward.
Breaking out of tables and into CSS offers new opportunities to extend grid and non-grid design further than we imagined on the web.
Structured Blogging: Who is Benefitting and How?
Joshua Porter explains structured blogging in terms that make sense.
Tags: aggregation structuredblogging
"We're primed to think that talent is the key to success. But what counts even more is a fusion of passion and perseverance. In a world of instant gratification, grit may yield the biggest payoff of all."
Tags: passion productivity psychology
Media gets messy in 2006 with experimentation
"The media plan of the future will look like the tiles of your bathroom floor ... a number of component pieces fitted together very precisely, but lots of pieces."
Tags: unbundled advertising media future
Jon Udell: Predictions for 2006
Jon Udell makes some 2006 predictions based on the fact that roughly 9 months after his first mention companies like del.icio.us, Flickr and Bloglines were acquired.
Tags: business future predictions internet
Top X keyboard shortcuts in OS X
Mac keyboard shortcuts for everyone from "the elite OS X ninja to those who are reading this on their first Mac which they pulled out of the box just yesterday."
Psst, Don't Tell Anyone, But the Internet Is Over
David Card explains, "People seem to be settling on what they use the Internet for, and doing fewer things overall."
Tags: internet trend youth research
Blogging Style: The Basic Posting Formats (Series Index)
There are seven basic blog posting formats: "link-only, link blurb, brief remark, list, short article, long article and series postings."
Career advice for young people?
The five skills Creating Passionate Users predicts young people will need are "creativity, flexibility, resourcefulness, synthesis and metacognition."
Bold predictions for the savvy designer, 2006 edition
Cameron Moll makes his web design predicitions for 2006.
Tags: design predictions
Seedmagazine.com - Lookin' Good
How Movable Type was implemented as the content management system for Seed Magazine's new website.
Tags: blogs magazines design movabletype
A blog featuring the best online banners from around the world.
Tags: advertising blogs onlinemedia
Baskerville Old Face meets Notorious B.I.G.
A typography music video. It seems so appropriate considering the man was best known for his words.
Tags: music typography video
Typeface of the month: Gill Sans
A deep look at Gill Sans, typeface of the BBC amongst others.
Tags: typography font
Small Biz 101: No one starts with a masterpiece
"Every successful business has a dirty little secret: They didn’t know if they were going to be successful when they started."
The 80/20 Of Search Engine Marketing - Part 2
Some good off-page Search Engine Optimization tips.
The 80/20 Of Search Engine Marketing - Part 1
Some good on-page Search Engine Optimization tips.
Microsoft has agreed to use the same RSS icon as Firefox.
Tags: browser firefox ie rss standards
Explain DOM to me like I'm a box of rocks.
"OK, the HTML Document Object Model is essentially the specifications for what objects can be included in an HTML/XHTML document and how they can be manipulated."
Tags: javascript dom
Stylus Magazine's Top 50 Singles of 2005
Includes some of my guiltiest pleasures of 2005.
Tags: bestof2005 music reviews
Trying to find the average New Yorker is much harder than one might think.
Tags: nyc demographics
CafePress brings customization to the world.
Tags: business consumerism internet
A Guide to Starting Your Business
"In an attempt to reduce the number of frustrating hours searching the web for what you need, we’ve written this article to help you with the small business paperwork, the basics of accounting, and an overview of some legal considerations."
Tags: business entrepreneur tips
"Having written an app for everything already, Google will unveil an API to their cafeteria allowing bloggers to choose what employees will eat at lunchtime  Lutefisk will go ranked number 1 for 47 weeks straight."
The New York Times picks up unbundling in a very unimpressive way.
Tags: unbundled nytimes business
Passing Up on the Super Bowl: Visa, McDonald's Are No-Shows
"The Winter Olympics, as well as clients’ interest in newer ad platforms like wireless and an unwillingness to undergo the creative scrutiny of Super Bowl ads, could divert some dollars from the football telecast, media buyers said last week."
Tags: advertising commercial
Testicular implantations for pets. Finally!
Trish Adams, MD of Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo on the basic tenets of WK's relationship with Nike.
Tags: creativity advertising nike process
For years, Web typography involved little more than choosing a typeface and font size. Unstyled Times New Roman was the norm, and the integration of established typographical techniques and rules was unimagined.
Tags: css design typography tips usability
An online to-do list manager that will email or text message you reminders.
Tags: organization productivity webtools
The Right Price for Digital Music
Record companies want to raise prices, is the answer a real-time market where price increasess or decreases based on demand?
Tags: economics itunes music mp3
Sony Draws Ire With PSP Graffiti
Sony's new street art campaign for the PSP is garnering some negative attention from the very people it's trying to impress.
Part three in The Official AdLand Advertising Tutorial, the dos and don'ts (as well as some serious advice) for art directors.
Tags: advertising design tutorial funny
Why Big Media Just Doesn't Get Mobile (And Many Other Things)
"The fundamental problem is that big media doesn't understand that there's just one big content market, not thousands of tiny little differentiated ones."
Tags: business media mobile unbundled
"An interview with Don Wise, creator of "incompetent design""
Tags: intelligentdesign funny evolution
Yahoo! gets another gem to add to the stable by buying del.icio.us.
Tags: del.icio.us yahoo
Jeff Jarvis writes a newspaper state of the union.
Tags: newspapers business future journalism socialsoftware
"A Hype Cycle is a graphic representation of the maturity, adoption and business application of specific technologies."
Tags: trend technology culture research
Does rivalry rewire the rapping web?
Social networks of rappers differ from all other human networks.
Tags: collaboration hiphop music networking
What do flag colors really mean? Using flags as visual tools for statistics.
Tags: art flags politics statistics visualization
Evan Williams, who started Blogger and now Odeo, gives some tips to potential web startups.
Tags: startups business tips technology
10 Questions to ask yourself when you are small
Rajesh Setty: "There was a discussion a few months ago on whether being small had its advantages - agility, speed etc. My response then was that it all depends and I stick to the same opinion even today."
Tags: business lists entrepreneur startups management
'Great managers know and value the unique abilities and even the eccentricities of their employees, and they learn how best to integrate them into a coordinated plan of attack."
Tags: business management
How to make a hip end of the year best albums list
"If you don't plan on naming a couple of Import albums that don't come out in this country until the Spring of next year then stop reading right now and get the fuck out of my blog."
Tags: funny bestof lists music
An Open Letter to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.
"Have you forgotten the rejection by your own father, Donner, who forced you to cover your nose in black dirt just to please Santa?"
CMYK jokes in advertising. Awesome.
Tags: advertising design colors funny
Lets you plug in your website and returns all the pages Yahoo! has indexed and all the pages linking to your site. Also lets you export the data.
Tags: yahoo webmastertools
"Getting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here's how we do it at google."
Tags: management innovation business
"He sends letters to 400 tuba players around the country and asks if they would like to be part of a Christmas concert. Three hundred say 'yes.' Woops. Better find a venue."
Dia Art Foundation's museum in Beacon, NY. It's supposed to be great.
"A small utility that will convert your Mac icons to Windows XP icons. The utility is free and part of the public domain. Source is available. Download size is just 50kB. That's about all you need to know."
Tags: software free apple design icons
Logoworks.com will make a logo for your company on the cheap. Apparently they manage to do this by simply copying the logo's of other companies.
An interview with Rex Sorgatz of fimoculous -- king of all lists
"First off, we live in a culture where events fly by so fast that history never has time to establish itself. (VH1's "Best Week Ever" is the personification of this -- a week is as far back as we can see)."
Tags: lists interviews culture media
"It's now officially annoying to use web apps that haven't replaced clunky html functionality with peppy Ajax goodness. Here are places Ajax should now be required in a web application"
Tags: ajax design interface tips usability
"Walt Disney Co.'s ESPN cable sports network is mulling a deal to distribute some television programs on Apple's iTunes music and video service"
Tags: sports itunes video mobile ipod
"HEL LOOKS is selected street fashion from Helsinki, the capital of Finland. The pictures are taken in the streets and clubs of Helsinki from July 2005 onwards."
Tags: fashion photography finland nicedesign
2005's Largehearted Favorite Albums
Leargehearted Boy's top eleven albums of the year with lots of good MP3s to download. Yum yum.
Tags: bestof2005 lists mp3 music
Blog from the Smithsonian American Art Museum. "Eye Level will be dedicated to American art and the ways in which the nation’s art reflects its history and culture."
Tags: art blogs museums culture history
I Invented ... the Yellow First-Down Line
"Meet Marvin White, the mastermind behind the greatest boon to televised sports since slo-mo."
Tags: sports innovation design television
A cool flash/video-based thingamabober that . . . oh hell, just go to the site.
Tags: design typography video
Socially Awkward Situations During Which It Would Be Acceptable to Mess With Texas.
McSweeney's: "Texas needs you to cover rent "just until I get back on my feet, man, I swear.""
McSweeney's: "Under Center"
Firefox 1.5 Session Saver Extension
"This extension allows you to save you Firefox session, tabs and all just the way you left it and is the only reason why a lot of users hadn’t upgraded to 1.5 yet."
Tags: firefox extensions
Cool Hunting 2005 Holiday Gift Guide
"We've got a few great exclusives. We've searched for the new and noteworthy. Added a few classics."
"Three years ago the company was considered a parasite and a scourge. Today it's a rising star - selling virtually the same product. How a pop-up pariah won the adware wars."
Tags: business advertising adware
There's no such thing as cyberspace.
"I find very compelling the idea that we beginning to see a generation that has not grown up with the idea of the internet as a separate "cyberspace""
Tags: internet youth research trend
52 of the top MP3s of the year.
Tags: bestof2005 mp3 music
"If we are going to help people cope with the arrival of the information society, where information can be delivered "any time, any place, anywhere," then information design needs to stake a larger claim in the corporate world."
Tags: design informationoverload business
Looking for Ads on Tivo -- Don't Laugh
David Card comments on Tivo's need to think creatively about advertising. Includes statistics on Tivo ad-skipping.
"A removable spare tire that also serves as a stealth beverage."
"You're saying I have to lose control of my medium to gain it? Get outta here!"
How a room at CERN turned into the message "404: File Not Found"
Garrett Dimon: "Something I’ve been doing for a while is always adding a comment after ever closing div tag that indicates which opening div it’s supposed to be related to."
Joshua Porter: "They’re networked. And being networked allows them them to accurately model our social behavior, of course!"
Tags: socialsoftware web2.0 networking
Generation Y Ripe For Experiential Marketing
"A recent survey of 2,574 US consumers commissioned by Jack Morton and conducted this year found Gen Y consumers - also known as "millennials" - respond strongly to live marketing events, which they prefer over TV and Internet advertising."
Tags: research demographics youth marketing
Amazon.com Music: Best of 2005
The Top 100 Editor's Picks from Amazon.com. It's a good list every year.
Tags: music bestof2005 amazon
Best Rejected Advertising Volume Three
Check out some ads that never made it out of the drawing room.
Tags: advertising
Rather than trying to hide or work around the ubiquitous grey air conditioners, these architects designed an exterior that embraces the grey rectangles.
Tags: architecture design
Nick Denton lists the tools he uses.
Tags: software business startups entrepreneur organization productivity
"There were quite a few extensions that didn't work with 1.5 but for most of them it was just a case of editing the install.rdf so that the max version was greater than 1.0"
Tags: firefox hacks extensions
capture, manage, access and deliver content across your enterprise
Tags: business collaboration design software projectmanagement