Paul Lewis to head new Guardian special projects team
5 days ago
The award-winning Guardian reporter, Paul Lewis, is to head up a newly-created multimedia special projects team. Lewis will recruit a small team that will be charged with finding new angles on breaking news stories. This includes using multimedia and crowd-sourcing.
Guardian Multimedia Crowdsourcing Journalism Publishing 5 days ago
Seth Godin at Gel 2006 on Vimeo
7 days ago
Seth Godin gives a tour of things poorly designed, the reasons why they are that way, and how to fix them.
Broken Simplicity 7 days ago
Seth's Blog: Moving on
8 days ago
Godin examines the cracks in the current corporate publishing model. Identifies avenues he wishes to explore when it comes to methods for spreading ideas and engaging with people. He wishes to figure out who his audience is and take them where they want and need to go.
2010 books publishing 8 days ago
News Corp. plans national newspaper for tablet computers and cellphones
15 days ago
LA Times: "It's the latest bid by a major media company to build readership using new devices such as the iPad. The new publication would offer short, snappy stories"
iPad Mobile-specific-content 15 days ago
HTML5 Boilerplate
15 days ago
Paul Irish and Divya Manian have developed a base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site — HTML5 Boilerplate.
HTML5 CSS3 web 15 days ago
Designing the new Campaign Monitor iOS icons
15 days ago
Jesse Dodds blogs about the his process and shares some helpful illustration tips regarding iOS iconography.
iconography icons iPad 15 days ago
Quixly
15 days ago
"Whether you need to store your digital products for customers or design and video comps for clients, Quixly's File Manager has you covered. With multiple file uploads, bulk editing and deleting, download tracking and more, File Management in Quixly is a breeze. Plus you files are stored on our servers forever."
digital file storage management ecommerce 15 days ago
Press the Magic Button
9 weeks ago
Derek Powazek writes about his usage of the 'block' functionality on social web sites such as Tumblr and Flickr.
Block Social Web 9 weeks ago
Launchlist
10 weeks ago
"Your one stop website checklist! Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large."
Design Checklist Launch Pre-Launch Testing Usability 10 weeks ago
iPad On Commercial Set
10 weeks ago
Vimeo: "A quick video that shows how the iPad is becoming a viable tool to bring on set - as we know, scripts, storyboards, shot lists and schedules are always changing until the very last second. Being able to download this new material while on location - and being able to reference them (and other videos/reference photographs) on set is a great to have at your fingertips. It sure beats having a stack of papers or folders of images - that are somehow never around at the critical moment that you need them."
iPad Commercial Set Mobile 3G 10 weeks ago
Battle of the e-Book readers: Stanza vs. iBooks – Jeffrey Zeldman Presents The Daily Report
10 weeks ago
Mr Zeldman highlights the ways in which the Stanza ebook app (on iPad and iPhone) currently pwns iBooks digital ass when it comes to readability.
Readability Ebook iBook Stanza Zeldman 10 weeks ago
MediaPost Publications Gartner: Mobile To Outpace Desktop Web By 2013 01/14/2010
may 2010
"Mobile phones will overtake PCs as the most common Web access devices worldwide by 2013, according to a new forecast by research firm Gartner."
Mobile Web may 2010
Brain Traffic
may 2010
"Content strategy plans for the creation, delivery, and governance of content. Better content. Content people care about. Content that supports your business objectives and meets your users' goals. It's a long-term fix for content problems of all sizes."
content design strategy ux ia may 2010
Danzico’s Text playlist
may 2010
Build Conference 2010 speaker Liz Danzico, has followed in the footsteps of another speaker (Frank Chimero) by outlining her own Text playlist. I'll definitely be sampling the best of both lists and creating a text playlist of my own.
Danzico inspiration creativity may 2010
How Facebook And Twitter Are Changing Business Models, Shaping Brand Identity
may 2010
Now that many corporations have mastered the tricky art of signing up for a Twitter or Facebook account, the next step is leveraging social media tools in a meaningful way that impacts your brand and your bottom line. Jeremiah Owyang, offers four laws of social business: don’t fondle the hammer, live the 80% rule, customers don’t care what department you’re in, and real time is not fast enough.
Twitter Facebook Business Models Brand Identity Leveraging Social Media may 2010
HTML5 Readiness
may 2010
HTML5 Readiness, from the asylum run by Paul Irish and Divya Manian, shows how HTML5 support has evolved since 2008.
browser readiness html5 css3 visualization may 2010
The Newsonomics of copyediting value.
may 2010
Ken Doctor on Copyediting in Newsonomics: "What’s copyediting worth these days? Of course, it used to be something we took for granted — like writing and design — just part of the journalistic process. You know, a second set of eyes, at least, on any story that would be published. There’s been a fair amount of craft skirmishing about copyediting, its role and its decline, over the last decade. I’ve been confronted this week by several recent “editing” experiences and data points, which have renewed my own thinking about editing, its value and how news people can harvest that value."
Newsonomics Copyediting Harvesting Content may 2010
Text Playlist
may 2010
"A lot of designers and creative folk that I know keep a morgue file, a folder of random elements that they find from old jobs that got killed, inspirational bits, torn images from magazines, and other scraps. I do a bit of that myself, but I keep what I perceive to be a more valuable, important morgue file: one made of the best writing on the web I come across."
creativity inspiration writing mixtape may 2010
Sentences, paragraphs and chapters
may 2010
"Four people may tell you that there was a typo on the third slide in your presentation. A generous and useful editor (hard to call them a consultant), though, points out that you shouldn't be doing presentations at all, and your time would be better spent meeting in small groups with your best clients." — Seth Godin
Seth Godin Strategic Thinking Advice Editors Mentors may 2010
Sleepover
may 2010
Modern web sites for: magazines, writers, publishers. A San Francisco based studio specialising in providing content providers with fan-dabby-dosey websites and other related shizzle.
blogs design writing inspiration publishing may 2010
Apple Building Facebook Into iPhone OS
may 2010
"Apple is building Facebook features into the latest version of its iPhone software, we're told by a plugged-in source in the mobile industry. These features could be announced during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference keynote on June 7, when Apple is expected to unveil a new iPhone."
iPhone Facebook WWDC Apple may 2010
Behind the Scenes at 48 Hour Magazine - San Francisco News - The Snitch
may 2010
"This weekend, a group of San Francisco media friends got together and produced a glossy print magazine, start to finish, in just about 48 hours. The theme was "hustle," and they got 1,502 submissions from around the world. Their 60-page final product is now for sale online, and you can also preview the magazine's contents."
48HrMag 48 Hour Magazine Publishing may 2010
In Business: Press Under Pressure
may 2010
30 Minute long BBC Radio 4 show looking at how … "Many of the world's best-known business newspapers and magazines are being painfully squeezed by the recession and the rise of rival media. In London and New York, Peter Day finds out why it matters... and how they are going about fighting for survival." Via Mr Murphy.
Publishing Newspapers Journalism BBC Radio 4 Business may 2010
This is You
may 2010
"A piece that tells people about a great place to work, and reminds Herman Miller employees they've already found one." Fantastic animation. Just brilliant. I hope to establish a design studio with similar values one day.
Values ThisIsYou HermanMiller may 2010
Don’t Be Afraid of the S-Word
may 2010
Uber fantastic post by Uzi Shmilovici on The 99 Percent blog. The subject: Embracing the importance of sales stratefy in your role as a designer. Brilliant resource/tips for establishing a sales process for my own practice.
Resource Sales Design may 2010
An Enchanted Alphabet
may 2010
Hoefler & Frere-Jones Blog: "I have a special affection for decorated letters, especially the ornamented designs of the nineteenth century. You know the kind: they're chubby Regency typefaces, slab serifs or high-contrast ‘Fat Faces,’ mostly, whose surfaces are emblazoned with intricate patterns or pastoral scenes." Me too JH, Me too.
Typography Fat Slab Regency Type may 2010
Webkit CSS Properties
may 2010
Comprehensive list of WebKit-specific CSS properties. Via Mr Gruber.
css3 webkit may 2010
Get Your eBook in the Apple iBookstore | Lulu Blog
may 2010
Daniel Wideman of Lulu on how to use their service to get your eBook into the Apple iBookstore.
books ebooks epub publishing may 2010
How to Make an eBook Anyone Can Read with ePub | Lulu Blog
may 2010
Lulu’s AJ McDonald presents a how-to tutorial for the most universal eBook format: ePub.
ePub Lulu may 2010
Andrey Ternovskiy’s Web site, Chatroulette.
may 2010
The New Yorker profiles Andrey Ternovskiy, the 18-year-old founder of Chatroulette
Chatroulette may 2010
The real reason Apple is so innovative
may 2010
Simon Sinek explains in 18 short minutes why Apple has an edge over its competitors.
Apple Remarkability Talkaboutability Strategy may 2010
The Death of Files
may 2010
From Dustin Curtis, this passes the awesome test hands down: "Mere mortals don’t think of things on their computers as “files.” People think about digital representations of things the same way they think about real physical things: they think about photos, videos, text documents, articles, and people. A “file” on a computer is just a universal container for one of those things."
design ipad files may 2010
iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing
may 2010
"iPad apps are inconsistent and have low feature discoverability, with frequent user errors due to accidental gestures. An overly strong print metaphor and weird interaction styles cause further usability problems." — Jakob Nielsen
ipad usability may 2010
A good problem to have
may 2010
Mike Davidson of Mike Industries examines the rise of Apple and fall of Microsoft. Their ability to provide awesome experiences and what their strategies mean for web developers in the mobile-web era.
Business Mobile Web Apple Microsoft Developers may 2010
A Brief History of Markup
may 2010
From A List Apart, the first chapter of A Book Apart's HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith of Clearleft. I've the whole book coming my way in June (pre-ordered). If the other chapters are as good as this I'm in for an enjoyable read!
HTML5 Jeremy Keith A Book Apart List History Markup may 2010
Why front-end developers are so important to the future of businesses on the web
may 2010
"How traditional businesses who have moved to the web regularly undervalue their front-end web developers, and are worse off because of that." — Paul Carvill
career front end developers business may 2010
iA » Designing for iPad: Reality Check
may 2010
Information Architects do not disappoint with this pretty thorough overview on the subject of designing for the Apple iPad.
design typography ipad ux ui may 2010
Why Twitter looks like a social network but feels like news media » Nieman Journalism Lab
may 2010
"Information Week posted an interesting account of an academic paper presented at the International World Wide Web Conference last month. The paper, written by four Korean researchers, analyzed 41.7 million Twitter user profiles, 1.47 billion social relations, 4,262 trending topics and 106 million tweets to examine the relationships between tweeters and the distribution of information across the microblogging network. Their conclusion: Twitter isn’t a social network, but something more akin to traditional news media."
Twitter Traditional News Media Social Network may 2010
HCI Lab - University of Udine - Publications
may 2010
"People want to do more with their mobile phones, but their desire is frustrated by two classes of limitations. One is related to the device, its hardware and software. The other is related to the context, and comprises perceptual, motor, cognitive and social aspects. This paper will discuss some of the opportunities and challenges that this complex scenario presents to multimodality, which can be a key factor for a better design of mobile interfaces to help people do more on their mobile phones, requiring less time and attention." — L Chittaro 2010
Multimodel interface moble ux ui on-the-go consumption may 2010
Grid-Based Web Design, Simplified
may 2010
A fantastic introduction to grid systems by Chris Brauckmuller on behalf of Design Informer.
Grid design css may 2010
Sam Brown ~ Empowering Users with Two-Sided Incentives
may 2010
Sam Brown writes about Dropbox's referral model. Why it works. Ways in which they could improve it and calls for other companies to adopt similar methods that promote two-sided incentives. Via: Mr Turley.
Dropbox Win-Win Incentives Talkaboutability may 2010
How To Save A Newsweekly in 5 Easy* Steps
may 2010
Fantastic post by Derek Powazek at powazek.com. It all seems so simple. I'd love to try this out will a failing news-weekly.
Newspaper Publishing Journalism User Generated may 2010
Calmness, curation, cat porn: Dave Eggers’ joys of print
may 2010
Nieman Journalism Lab's Megan Garber comments on Dave Eggers' talk at ASNE’s conference. In the keynote Eggers confesses “I love print … I just love the form.” But it's not just print itself — ink, paper, the tactile nature of text — that he admires. It’s the sense of comprehensiveness and direction — physically, and, he suggests, psychologically — that print represents. The ideas Eggers highlighted in his defense of print…are actually readily applicable to the web.
1. Comprehensiveness and containment.
2. Length and thoughtfulness
3. Professionalism and expert curation
4. Physicality and variety
print web news journalism publishing 1. Comprehensiveness and containment.
2. Length and thoughtfulness
3. Professionalism and expert curation
4. Physicality and variety
may 2010
Drawing out the audience: Inside BBC’s User-Generated Content Hub » Nieman Journalism Lab
may 2010
Following on from my previous Pinboard post, the Nieman Journalism Lab's Jonathan Stray has had the opportunity to find out more about the BBC's User Generarted Content Hub from one of its contributors Silvia Costeloe.
BBC User Generated Content Hub Journalism Online may 2010
Visit to BBC User Generated Content (UGC) Hub
may 2010
MA Online Journalism (Birmingham City University) student Caroline Beavon has posted a series of videos from her workshop with Matthew Eltringham, who heads up the BBC's User Generated Content Hub.
BBC Online Journalism User Generated Content Hub may 2010
Color photographs from a lost world
may 2010
"Albert Kahn was a French banker and philanthropist who financed an extensive photography project in the early 1900s. His photographers traveled all around the world, eventually amassing a collection 72,000 color photos."
First Colour Photographs Albert Kahn may 2010
Why does the BBC want to send its readers away? The value of linking
may 2010
With a 25% budget reduction coming its way the BBC website has announced that it will actively seek to add more external links to its news stories. A BBC strategy review document states the goal of: "Turning the site into a window on the web by providing at least one external link on every page and doubling monthly ‘click-throughs’ to external sites." Interesting that the BBC are going down this route while many privately owned and for-profit news organisations are talking about installing a pay-wall around their content. Nieman Journalism Lab article.
BBC Links External Click-through may 2010
Tweets are the new quotes.
may 2010
Twitter on their Media blog, gear up for the launch of a new service that will allow for the generation of simple, selectable flat-HTML tweets for use on blogs, etc. This will be achievable by pasting in a snippet of code.
Twitter Quotes may 2010
Announcing A Book Apart
may 2010
Jason Santa Maria: "A Book Apart, a new publisher of brief books for people who make websites, founded by Jeffrey Zeldman, Mandy Brown, and myself. Our first book is HTML5 For Web Designers, by the indomitable Jeremy Keith. If you’re already getting your feet wet with HTML5, or just trying to figure out what the hell it’s all about, you’ll want this one."
alistapart book books design html5 may 2010
Ten times better
may 2010
Eoghan McCabe echos Seth Godin's advice to people considering embarking on a new business venture. Ensure your product/service is ten time better than what your competitors offer. Otherwise don't bother.
Contrast Godin McCabe Ten Times Better Remarkability may 2010
iPad Case Finder
may 2010
iPad Case Finder features just some of the many iPad cases on the market today. With iPad Case Finder, you can search for iPad cases by case maker, or just browse the site for cases.
ipad cases may 2010
Google Buys BumpTop: 3-D Multitouch Tablet Interface on the Way?
may 2010
"Is there a tablet in Google’s future with a three-dimensional, multitouch user interface? It’s increasingly likely, given that the search giant has just acquired BumpTop, a startup whose unique software creates a 3-D environment where users can toss files and folders around as though they were playing cards, stack them in related piles and “hang” them on the virtual walls."
Google BumpTop 3D Tablet OS may 2010
The Newsonomics of reborn newspaper profit » Nieman Journalism Lab
may 2010
Newspapers in the US are reporting profits from the last quarter. Small profits in single figures. "It’s a fragile stability. One big question for all publishers: where do we go from here?" Nieman investigate what these institutions will have to do to remain profitable.
Money Newspapers Publishing may 2010
In Praise of the Purple Cow
may 2010
Fast Company profiles Seth Godin's Purple Cow. Extract.
creativity remarkability may 2010
The New Yorker On Brand: Q&A with Web Editor Blake Eskin
may 2010
As The New Yorker’s first Web editor, Blake Eskin has led the iconic magazine brand into the digital age. Sparksheet's Dan Levy interviews Eskin about the challenges of maintaining editorial excellence in the digital age.
New Yorker Blake Eskin Web Editor Brand Digital Publishing may 2010
Design For the First World
may 2010
"Dx1W is a competition for designers, artists, scientists, makers and thinkers in developing countries to provide solutions for First World problems."
First World Problems Design Developing Countries may 2010
7 Quick CSS Enhancements for Better User Experience
may 2010
David Walsh gives 7 Quick CSS Enhancements for Better User Experience. Via Mr Turley.
css design usability may 2010
TouchScroll Demo
april 2010
TouchScroll is a JavaScript and CSS3 based scroller for devices using Webkit Touch. It is meant to mimic 'native' scrolling feeling and behavior as much as possible.
css ipad april 2010
The $300 Million Button
april 2010
Jared Spool writes on 'User Interface Engineering' about the importance of correct wording and through user testing. By changing one simple button value, Spool helped an unnamed company increase their sales to the tune of $300 million in one year. Removing ambiguity ensures that the user knows exactly where they stand.
design usability button wording interface april 2010
Flip Clock
april 2010
Some web-kit CSS3 sandbox fun from Tim Van Damme.
WebKit CSS3 MaxVoltar TimVanDamme april 2010
Barnes & Noble e-reader to offer web browser
april 2010
Yahoo! News: "Barnes & Noble plans to roll out a software update to its electronic reader the Nook that will let users surf the Web and play games."
Nook eReader eBook browser games april 2010
The State of Web Development 2010 | Web Directions
april 2010
"The second installment of the “State of Web Development” survey of professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today’s web professionals employ."
industry web survey professional april 2010
Colours In Cultures
april 2010
"Courtesy of Information is Beautiful, Colour in Cultures visualises the meanings of different colours in different cultures. Produced by David McCandless and Always With Honor the piece is available to order as a five colour limited edition print. Tempting." — Standardistas
colour color perception culture april 2010
Preparing Your Web Content for iPad
april 2010
Apple's Safari Reference Library. Technical Note TN2262: Preparing Your Web Content for iPad
css ipad web april 2010
jQuery Masonry
april 2010
"Masonry is a layout plugin for jQuery. Think of it as the flip side of CSS floats. Whereas floating arranges elements horizontally then vertically, Masonry arranges elements vertically then horizontally according to a grid. The result minimizes vertical gaps between elements of varying height, just like a mason fitting stones in a wall." By David DeSandro
css layout jquery masonry no-floats april 2010
Dollar Redesign by Michael Tyznik
april 2010
Excellent graphic design inspiration from an ongoing design competition (The Dollar ReDe$ign Project) to redesign the US Dollar. These entries by Michael Tyznik caught my eye for the simplicity and modern nature of their design.
currency april 2010
Type Coaster
april 2010
A coaster/beer-mat that demonstrates type anatomy. Perfect companion for a cold pint of cider.
type anatomy beermat coaster typography april 2010
Longform.org
april 2010
A curated collection of great longform pieces of journalism.
journalism longform blog april 2010
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