Links from 2007

I've been waiting for this for a while; John Grant's The Green Marketing Manfesto is now available.

A small script that sits on top of SWFObject and provides deep linking for Flash websites and applications.

"Ploughing a uniquely British furrow through the woozy outer limits of electronic music, the London-based imprint is now six years old; this year, it gave birth to Signals - a subscription-only series of 7"s by artists including Cursor Miner and Si Begg."

An understanding of what makes a piece of copy really good is one more useful device a web designer or developer can slot into his or her mental tool belt.

For me, jQuery's philosophy (type less, do more, keeping things intuitive and unobstrusive) makes a big difference. But, I miss prototype core javascript additions.

Great Sherburne article on the past, present and future of electronic music. "Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth."

“Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth.”

— Philip Sherburne, From Glitch To Blog House

Great article on the past, present and future of electronic music.

“Torrent Raiders is a dynamic network visualization realized through the idioms and aesthetics of arcade-style video games. Driven in real-time by the activity of bit torrent swarms, Torrent Raiders takes place on the ad-hoc networks created by bit torrent users.”

But why not charge more? Accessible, standards-complaint sites are quality sites, and quality sites, like quality cars, quality watches, and quality everything else, tend to be more expensive.

"[A] controversial session in which six teenage girls [...] discussed their music consumption practices." Fascinating stuff, especially the question from the former BPI Executive Chairman.

Create your own private network with your friends

"Centralized storage vault for all types of files." 50Gb

List of tumblr custom theme tags.

In early October, Yahoo’s Tom Coates presented Fire Eagle, a geographic service now in alpha testing that will provide data to location-based internet applications.

So it’s out, and lots of people are talking about it, but I’m still trying to work out exactly what it is.

Some good points, some contentious.

Dead handy.

Walk London is organising guided walks on every section of the 326 mile / 525km Strategic Walk Network in London over the weekend of 17-18 November.

Internet Archive Wayback Machine – Web Pioneers

A special Wayback collection of websites that began the Internet revolution.

"Jeff Parks [and] Milissa Tarquini [...] talk about how this long held rule in web design is being de-bunked by web analytics and user testing, as well as how this will impact design and development processes based on screen resolution and browser compati

"Typography has an important place in the web at the moment. Social interaction, and how to design for it, it a hot design topic [...] But don’t forget that the medium of social interaction is language, and the way language is shaped and looks is typogr

Eventually, once every efficiency has been wrung from the web, they'll start to need those skills of imagination, craft and intuition that our funny little industry has so painstakingly acquired.

Lots of new tumblr features. Nice work.

Choosing the right framework can be tricky, and weeding through a mess of opinionated fanboys (myself included) is intimidating.

KitchenBug could be described best as a social recipe application. It allows you to create, bookmark and share recipes in a very seamless way.

Free download, released today.

Wish I’d seen this yesterday.

TwitterPoster

“A visual application based on Twitter API. It provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users.”

There are prettier demos but Mental Hangover sums up the era for me.

I miss my Amiga.

Not replicating browser functionality and making accessibility help videos.

A presentation that covers the benefits of WCAG 2.0, shortcuts for using WCAG 2.0, how it differs from WCAG 1.0, and other topics listed in the outline

"Easily create and share personalized, annotated maps of your world". Nice video tutorial

The evidence from the £12m four-year project will end years of debate and is likely to overturn government advice that eating organic food is no more than a lifestyle choice.

In this 40-minute presentation, Nate takes you on a detailed tour of the YUI CSS foundation, its philosophy, and its usage.

If the volume of searches reflect the regional popularity of a search string, then Google Trends reveal useful information for marketing agencies, record labels, and booking agents.

Not a particular fan of Reznor but there's some smart opinions in this piece.