LINKS FROM February 2006
"86 Recipes is a city-specific collection of authentic recipes straight from professional kitchens to your home."
They call themselves the 13th best sketch comedy website on the internet, I say they're at least 11th.
"These are some of the links I came across in the last month . . . of reasonable interest, such as links to new foundries and pages of typographers."
Tags: font typography free
Site of a type designer with a TON of free fonts.
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Nando Costa: Brasil Inspired graphics
"Nando Costa created Brasil Inspired by Die Gestalten in 2003: a richly illustrated book featuring work from local and internationally renowned graphic artists about Brazil."
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"There are many reason to pepper a celebrity with fan mail: admiration, a sense of kinship, obsession, even boredom. Any are acceptable, all are believable, until you try to explain your motives to others."
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Google's 7 Marketing Principles
"Some very interesting insights into a company that has withheld the storms and stood up against the busts, to move along and create a magical world of search."
He of Tipping Point and Blink fame has finally entered the blogosphere.
Tags: blogs books culture marketing
The portfolio site of Thomas Schostok.
Tags: design portfolio typography inspiration
His mission: to redesign with today's readers in mind
"World-famous newspaper designer Mario Garcia embraces the challenge of blending the old with the new as he helps reinvent the Wall Street Journal."
Tags: design newspapers
Explaining Ice: The Answers Are Slippery
"What makes Olympic ice skaters slide across the ice? Physicists still disagree over the answer to this seemingly simple question."
"The democratization of content creation will not democratize value creation. Only a small handful of people has the gift of original insight and original ideas. All the rest is echo and noise."
Tags: internet blogs culture media2.0 web2.0
He talks about touring, whistling and a bunch of other stuff.
Tags: music interviews
Industry Note - The Great Divide: Why is the Valley Afraid of MySpace?
"Web 2.0 can't live up to its game-changing potential until and unless the geeks step outside and think outside their own box of geekery."
Tags: media2.0 internet web2.0 venturecapital geeks myspace
HTML Codes - Table of ascii characters and symbols
Standard ASCII set, HTML Entity names, ISO 10646, ISO 8879, ISO 8859-1 Latin alphabet No. 1.
Tags: design html ASCII reference internet
Issues Entrepreneurs Face as their Businesses Grow
"Growth also creates challenges for the entrepreneur. Here are some of the more common issues that entrepreneurs wrestle with as their business grows."
Tags: entrepreneur management business tips
Guy Kawasaki's tips for naming a copmany or product.
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A photo mosiac made up of the screenshots of the top 957 front page Digg stories.
Tags: visualization
Marketer's Paradise: Owning the Channel Itself
"In the experience economy, it seems the best thing you can be is a media company. It's really the only way to take advantage of all those advertising dollars sloshing around the Web these days."
Tags: marketing media2.0 advertising internet
"Younger people are not tied to a location anymore," said Ritch Blasi, Cingular's director of media relations. "They really are tied to their phones."
Tags: mobile trend youth nytimes
Creators, Synthesizers, and Consumers
"Everyone becomes a programmer without even trying, and that programming can be socialized, shared, distributed, etc."
Tags: socialsoftware attention collaboration communication yahoo media2.0
"Smashing and overexceeding projects of tantamount quality, ingeniosity and creativity. Speed travel through the past year, and rediscover amazing sites. As you will see, 2005, was indeed a very good year for design!"
Tags: design inspiration bestof2005 lists
Schrodinger's Products (ten ways to be desirable)
Kathy Sierra of Creating Passionate Users gives her "Ten ways to make your product desirable."
Tags: design marketing passion business
Rambling about blogging and TV
"It's only because things are so lax that everyone and their brother saw the Chronicles of Narnia SNL spoof video, and SNL ratings definitely saw a spike in the shows that followed."
Tags: television viral video technology internet
A Flickr photoset of sites that Andy Budd finds inspirational.
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PingMag’s choice of Japanese cigarette packaging.
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The Art of Creating a Community
Guy Kawasaki's eight tips for creating a community around your product or company.
Tags: marketing business community passion
On the New York Magazine Blog Article
Terry Heaton: "This otherwise excellent piece of work begins with the assumption that the purpose of getting into blogging is to reach the largest audience possible and monetize that audience through advertising."
Tags: blogs media magazines advertising
"This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns. In many cases we have bundled the patterns with pointers to related code from the Yahoo! User Interface Code Library."
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How can the design of digital surfaces help engender trust?
"In other words, when we're presenting interfaces of tracks or radio programmes or books that people have a relationship with, how do we represent those relationships and patterns of usage at the surface layer?"
Tags: design communication culture ux usability
"While many within the design world pursue linear processes, and embrace well-meaning philosophies such as the user-centric model, real integration – real vision – demands something both more profound and more difficult to achieve."
Tags: design management business
What Web Designers Really Want for Valentine's Day
There's nothing quite like geek humor.
Bottled Water: Nectar of the Frauds?
"For a fraction of [the $100 billion spent yearly on bottled water], everyone on the planet could have safe drinking water and proper sanitation, the Washington, D.C.-based organization said this week."
Tags: water culture health environment
Madison Avenue's 30-Second Spot Remover
Robert M. Greenberg is redefining advertising by making the delivery of the message a two-way street between marketers and consumers.
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"Last year, Apple sold 32 million iPods, or one every second. But for every $3 spent on an iPod, at least $1 is spent on an accessory."
"As you're speaking, slowly lower your voice so that at the end of the 10 minutes everyone is leaning forward to hear you and your speaking at the level of a stage whisper."
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Their Own Version of a Big Bang
Those who believe in creationism -- children and adults -- are being taught to challenge evolution's tenets in an in-your-face way.
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Oded Ezer - experimental Hebrew typography
"A letter is something that came up from culture, it is an artificial sign for something which has a meaning and long history behind it. What I’m trying to do is to understand this process of creating and re-shaping this cultural element."
Tags: typography design inspiration
"It [DoubleClick] showcases real users right up front at the top of the main page, which I think is great (much better than what I've done so far), and the quotes are a combination of category 3 and 4."
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The portfolio of Mario Hugo.
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Instant Study Hints Advertisers Should Objectify Women
"Your brain's favorite Super Bowl ads may not be the ones you wanted to like the most."
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Study Probes the Mystery of Hit Songs
"Popular songs became more popular and unpopular songs became less popular when individuals influenced one another."
Just in case anybody ever needs 'em.
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Some amazing poster design from China.
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Hungry? Want another bullshit sandwich?
"Those who say that poorly designed websites are partly responsible for some companies’ success are feeding you a load of crap. And too many of you are eating it up."
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Andy Rutledge redesigns Google's homepage.
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"Engineering is the construction of function: enabling products to work. Marketing is the understanding of context: who is this for and what are we telling them. Design is communication: the interfaces . . . and ads that speak to potential customers."
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"Start-to-finish publishing software simple and smart enough to make you an author."
Tags: books internet personalization
The Rise of the Participatory Panopticon
"Digital devices and network connections can allow individuals to bypass chains of command and control."
Tags: culture mobile technology photography privacy surveillance identity
"What Google wants to do with these trailers is SERVE EVERY TV COMMERCIAL ON THE PLANET because only they will be able to do it efficiently."
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"Use the dream on! patches for as long as your body says you need to and let the unwanted side effects of 21st century life seep away as you sleep away."
Everything Counts (in large amounts)
In this essay we will look at some of the ways that ideas about architecture are affected by electronic communication and the culture that surrounds it.
Tags: architecture design attention technology media culture art
Rupert Murdoch On the Media Microchunk
"We're downloading minute segmentsâ€â€original "mobisodes"â€â€of the Fox hit "24." Soon we'll be downloading the funniest joke of the week in "Family Guy." People will be sitting in bars and holding up their phones and laughing. It'll be a pretty serious pi
Tags: unbundled media television mobile
The Most Important Statistic of them All
"So, what is the “personal killer app� that Karp is looking for? It’s recommendation systems, just like Netflix. They’re out modeling where YOU pay attention, what media YOU want, not the media THEY try to sell you."
Web economics 2.0 and paying with data instead of dollars
"People understand that someone has to get paid to develop apps or write articles, and if we can pay with something other than money, that’s great!"
Tags: attention internet economics
Bubble 2.0 Is a Bubble in Media
"There’s a bubble because the tech industry is trying to be the new media industry, and very few people in the tech industry understand what’s really happening to the economics of media."
Tags: attention business media economics
Discussing the new (somewhat bizarre) design chosen as the winner in the Swiss banknote redesign competition.
Tags: money design switzerland
Could we chart the branches and connections of 100 years of music using the London Underground map? Dorian Lynskey explains how a box of coloured crayons and lot of swearing helped.
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25 words that hurt your resume
Words don't tell potential employers as much as deeds
Guy Kawasaki: "The art of recruiting is the purest form of evangelism because you're not simply asking people to try your product, buy your product, or partner with you. Instead, you are asking them to bet their lives on your organization."
Tags: recruiting entrepreneur business passion
"Most teams (or start-ups) have some kind of written charter, even if it’s just a beat up e-mail, for what the over-arching goals are supposed to be. Why are they often so bad?"
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Attention, Media, Value and Economics
"Building on the debate about the "attention economy" initiated by Michael Goldhaber and Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, I introduce the notion of valuing process, i.e. the process by which potential value can be translated in an economy."
Tags: attention economics media
The Attention Economy: The Natural Economy of the Net
Michael Goldhaber's speech about the relationship between the new attention economy and the internet.
Tags: attention economics internet trend
Allows you to use more (and older) mobile phones with your Mac. Finally . . .
The Moment of Zen: The Daily Show and Product Development
"While there’s nothing particularly unique about the way The Daily Show involves the audience, it does remind us that good design practices that truly include audiences are ubiquitous; not just for narrowly defined brainstorming sessions and design revi
Tags: television process design
get out of your lab, and into their lives
Petere Merholz of Adaptive Path recommends abandoning traditional usability testing and instead allowing people to test in their normal computing environments.
Tags: usability research design
Report from /Vaultstock!: Access is Everything
Seth Goldstein gives his /Vaultstock wrap up with some interesting thoughts and quotes about attention.
Tags: attention
A brainstorming tool for advertising creatives. You put in a bunch of criteria, it pops out some "thought starter" questions.
Tags: brainstorming creativity tools marketing
Draft mandate for the Media 2.0 Workgroup
Very interesting overview of the current state of media. Choice quote: "Simply put, advertising needs to move from ‘interruption of experience’ to ‘enhancement of experience’. An unprecedented cultural, strategic and creative challenge."
Tags: media unbundled future marketing
Thinking about the Stanford marshmellow experiment, which showed that "Delayed gratification seemes to play a significant part in success," and considering what that means for entrepreneurship.
Tags: entrepreneur culture business
"Your mobile phone company could make money from selling information about your location to the companies that offer this service."
"Adrian Shaughnessy’s first book “How to Be a Graphic Designer, Without Losing Your Soul� takes readers through the pitfalls of client pitches to the hazards of portfolio preparation."
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Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
Google: "In December 2005 we did an analysis of a sample of slightly over a billion documents, extracting information about popular class names, elements, attributes, and related metadata. The results we found are available below."
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How Pixar Adds a New School of Thought to Disney
"We've made the leap from an idea-centered business to a people-centered business. Instead of developing ideas, we develop people. Instead of investing in ideas, we invest in people."
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"So add one more skill to our career advice for young people: be willing to take risks! Perhaps more importantly, be willing to tolerate (and perhaps even encourage) risk-taking in those who are managed by you."
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