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• "Streams of Content, Limited Attention: The Flow of Information through Social Media"
  For the longest time, we have focused on sites of information as a destination, of accessing information as a process, of producing information as a task. What happens when all of this changes?
• Daring Fireball: The OS Opportunity
  There are massive business markets where Windows remains essential. But the Web is a bigger platform than Windows. The Web is universal. Every computer is on the Web. The Web provides us with a core set of software and APIs that work everywhere.
• Obama Team Challenges Web Developers — Open Source — InformationWeek
  The White House is planning to make increasing use of RDFa, a way of tagging metadata to content that could make hard-to-find data more searchable. "We have a lot of primary source content and have it exposed in ways that traditionally hasn't been done by government," Cole said. "Instead of just having PDFs that are scanned, we're trying to reverse that trend."
• A Design Apart: Q&A with Jeffrey Zeldman | Sparksheet
  Content informs design; design without content is decoration.
• An Entirely Other Day: Birdhouse for Your Soul
  That small obituary — hosted on some cheesy advertising circular’s Web site, last modified in January 2001 — has sat out there, patiently waiting for someone to need it.
• Typekit
  Add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

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• Typography on the Web: Questions for Jeffrey Zeldman—Part 1
  The difficulty has to do with the fear of piracy. Thus, while modern versions of Safari, Firefox, and Opera all support @font-face embedding of TrueType and OpenType fonts, Microsoft's Internet Explorer only supports @font-face embedding of Embedded OpenType (.EOT), a format that embeds fonts on the page but obscures them so they cannot be pirated.
• A List Apart: Articles: Real Web Type in Real Web Context
  Now that browsers support real fonts in web pages and we can license complete typefaces for such use, let’s move past the hype of web type and think pragmatically about how to use real fonts in our web projects.
• Nice Web Type – Where to get web fonts
  Let’s revisit WOFF, talk about EULAs, and list some places to find typefaces that are legal for use with the CSS @font-face property, including type delivery services, free font libraries, and curated lists of fonts available for web linking.
• Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » The Yahoo! Search Open Ecosystem
  By supporting semantic web standards, Yahoo! Search and site owners can bring a far richer and more useful search experience to consumers.
• XML.com: The Web is Ruined and I Ruined it
  Some people say I've ruined the Web, and to them it's true.

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• Font Squirrel
  Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
• css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
  The Nerw Road to Enlightenment.
• Design View / Andy Rutledge – How Well Do You Understand Design?
  In order to help spark a bit of interest in fundamentals and/or inspiration for readers (I hope) I’ve put together a little multiple-choice quiz to help test your understanding of design.
• mezzoblue § Isolation
  You probably experience this on a regular basis: a client sends you an illustration or a logo they’d like to use in a project, but it’s a low-res bitmap or a flat image file with a background texture.
• Reinventing HTML | Decentralized Information Group (DIG) Breadcrumbs
  Making standards is hard work.

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• Interview with Web Usability Guru, Jakob Nielsen | Webdesigner Depot
  "I find it quite amusing that in the early days of Web usability, critics complained that you couldn’t apply usability methods to websites because they only work for software applications."
• Can You Be a Web Designer?
  Got what it takes?
• XML on the Web
  Primarily (and getting all touchy-feely on you) the Web isn’t a data transfer mechanism, it’s about communication. Forgiving browsers and liberal validation rules lower the barrier to entry to publishing on the Web.
• Allan Jardine | Reflections | Grid
  Grid is a highly configurable JavaScript bookmarklet which overlays a layout grid on any web-site you wish.
• mezzoblue § Starting with @font-face
  Native CSS @font-face rule is becoming increasingly viable.
• Il futuro dei giornali? Va cercato altrove | Apogeonline
  Il giornalismo è un bene pubblico terribilmente costoso, per il quale stanno venendo meno tutte le storiche fonti di finanziamento.

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• Context Free Art
  Context Free is a program that generates images from written instructions called a grammar. The program follows the instructions in a few seconds to create images that can contain millions of shapes.
• Popular Logos with Hidden Symbolisms
  Some logos are very creative and have subtle symbols and messages that represents something about the company it stands for
• How to Create an Organic Web Design (and Showcase) | Webdesigner Depot
  Whether overt or subtle, whether scanned elements or graphics that mimic nature, organic web design has taken on many forms. But what constitutes organic design? What makes it successful? Let’s find out…
• How to Publish a Magazine in a Day and a Half
  31.5 hours from idea to publication, and that’s with a few hours of sleep thrown in.
• The Most Controversial Magazine Covers of All Time | Webdesigner Depot
  These covers can serve as object lessons for what to do and what not to do both with design and editorial.

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• Yahoo! Search Blog » Blog Archive » See More SearchMonkey in Your Search Results
  Want a little more SearchMonkey in your Yahoo! search results? Starting today, more enhanced results for product, local, entertainment, reference, social, and tech sites will appear automatically in your results, putting more information and answers right at your fingertips.
• Copyediting: Man vs. Machine – (37signals)
  Lesson learned: Don’t be so quick to dismiss the old in favor of the new just because the new seems like it should be better.
• Typedia: A Shared Encyclopedia of Typefaces
  Typedia is a resource to classify, categorize, and connect typefaces.
• Edge: HOW DOES OUR LANGUAGE SHAPE THE WAY WE THINK? By Lera Boroditsky
  For a long time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered at best untestable and more often simply wrong. Research in my labs at Stanford University and at MIT has helped reopen this question.
• Loving HTML5 – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  Some friends and I gathered at Happy Cog’s New York studio to hash out the pros and cons of HTML5 from the perspective of semantic-markup-oriented web designers.

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• Benlog » Real-world usage sometimes includes things you don’t like
  If HTML5 fails to specify how to include RDFa markup, then the HTML Working Group has failed to capture real-world usage.
• Taming Advanced CSS Selectors | CSS | Smashing Magazine
  Despite the fact that we are all well aware of its usefulness, CSS selectors are still not used to their full potential and we sometimes have the tendency to litter our HTML with excessive and unnecessary classes and ids, divs and spans.
• Adactio: Journal—The HTML5 Equilibrium
  HTML5 is a strange character with what appears to be a split personality. Hardly surprising then that something so divided would appear to be so divisive.
• Plugins That Make WordPress Into A Company Intranet | StylizedWeb.com
  With these assortments of plug-ins we can use our favorite open source software to improve our businesses, efficiency and offer more solutions to our clients.
• ALA 289: Redesign yourself – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
  The hardest redesigns are the ones you do for yourself.
• Text Rotation with CSS
  Thankfully, many of the popular browsers of today support the ability to rotate HTML elements.
• Nice Web Type – Pure CSS text gradient (no PNGs)
  Folks, grab a copy of Safari 4.

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