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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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• Music Thing: Tuesday is Prince Day: Pt 3: How ‘Kiss’ was made
  The record company were horrified by the track, saying it was too minimal, with no bass and no reverb.
• Spot.us
  We are an open source project, to pioneer “community funded reporting.”
• Website Features That You Can Easily Offload
  To alleviate the work that your web server is doing, it’s a good idea to offload certain site features to share the burden. In this article, you’ll read about six site features you can easily offload, and the web services that you can use for them.
• Nieman Reports | An Antidote for Web Overload
  With a hunger for explanatory guidance amid the raging storm of Web news flashes, a journalist stresses context to attract digital users.
• WordPress, Twitter, the Elks Club: 10 new routines at a news startup » Nieman Journalism Lab
  15 hours a day, seven days a week, from the 7 a.m. check-in with your spouse-turned-business-partner to the midnight bookkeeping.

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• A List Apart: Articles: Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!
  Understanding of your site visitors’ intent is one of the most delightful parts of web data analysis.
• 35 Stylish And Modern WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI | Graphic and Web Design Blog -Resources And Tutorials
  In this post you’ll find out about very flexible and stylish WordPress plugins, which are based on Jquery UI.
• Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
  Google has ignored the keywords meta tag for years and currently we see no need to change that policy.
• University of British Columbia Selects WordPress « WordPress Publisher Blog
  A Place of Mind is a web site created for the University of British Columbia to aggregate their content from a variety of online sources like YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, and blogs. The site is configured to pull feeds from these sources and import specially tagged posts.
• SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers
  A simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation.

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• Tagaroo » Make blogging better!
  Tagaroo is designed to make your WordPress blog better for you, better for your readers and more accessible to search engines. As you’re writing, Tagaroo analyzes the text in your post and suggests intelligent tags for the things and events you’re writing about.
• OpenCalais
  Calais is a rapidly growing toolkit of capabilities that allow you to readily incorporate state-of-the-art semantic functionality within your blog, content management system, website or application.
• Gov 2.0: It’s All About The Platform
  The real secret of success in Government 2.0 is thinking about government as a platform.
• Social Media Outsourcing Can Be Risky (Jakob Nielsen’s Alertbox)
  Hosting a company's content and services on 3rd-party social networking sites involves both tactical risks (lower usability) and strategic risks (less user loyalty).
• Authority Rules: The 10 Rock-Solid Elements of Effective Online Marketing
  Authority Rules is a report about online marketing that works. It’s written by Copyblogger founder Brian Clark, and it’s absolutely free.

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• Bruce Lawson’s personal site  : This millenium in HTML 5 (politics)
  OK, so it’s not quite a millenium but the flame wars, bitch fests on the mailing list make it feel that way.
• HTML 5: The Markup Language
  This specification describes the fifth major version of the HTML language and provides details necessary for producers of HTML content to create documents that conform to the language. By design, it does not define related APIs nor attempt to specify how consumers of HTML content are meant to process documents.
• Google inimitabile brevetto sul sito – Tecnologia – Repubblica.it
  Per la prima volta il design di un'homepage viene vincolato a copyright. Il colosso dei motori di ricerca afferma così un primato e crea un precedente.
• 20 Excellent JavaScript Navigation Techniques and Examples
  JavaScript allows you to add interactivity and feedback, making the user’s experience better and more intuitive.
• Concept Feedback | Free Concept Reviews for Marketers, Designers and Developers
  Getting ready to launch a brand new concept? Would you like to know what other professionals think before you release it to the world?

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• Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Archives: The New Media Literacies: An Introduction
  If you can’t read and write, you may not be able to meaningfully participate in this new media landscape.
• 20+ WordPress Recipes (Codes)
  This post contains over 20 recipes that I hand picked from WpRecipes.

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• 5 Tech Things Every Blogger Should Know | The Blog Herald
  Social networking sites make it easy to get online, but blogging, especially over the long haul, takes something more.
• Things To Consider When Using WordPress as a CMS | Devlounge
  Add a solid support for “static” content, being the WordPress Pages, and more newsy update flows controlled by the Posts, and you’ve got your needs pretty much covered for most websites online today.
• Pods : WordPress CMS Plugin
  Pods is a CMS framework that lets you create, manage, and display your own content types.
• Google Chrome Operating System
  Google’s blog announces a natural extension of the Chrome project: an operating system for netbooks.
• 12 Excellent Social News Sites for Web Designers
  This article features social news/bookmarking sites for web designers and developers. Whether you’re seeking tutorials, information on the latest trends and web technologies, or a design community that you can participate in, these are the websites to check out.

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