Links from 2008

A few notes when trying to create a grid layout using ems

"Just forward your travel confirmation emails to: plans@tripit.com." Clever clever.

I know that this is all a waste of time if there's no follow-through from management. But assuming that the required support is there, how do you guys do process documentation?

Before you run over to Survive Digg hosting and plunk down even more money, take a look at your Wordpress setup and LAMP stack. You can make them better.

Ethnio is a friendly new way to recruit people from your website for research. Usability studies / Marketing studies / Surveys / Focus groups

In this post we look at how content owners can implement simple annotation strategies which can help the top-down tools and search engines to make the web more structured.

Yesterday, I discovered that The Times (UK), a well-respected newspaper owned by News Corp., is involved in an extensive campaign to spam social media websites with links to Timesonline.co.uk articles.

Doh, mine too.

Clone your bootcamp partition

In contrast to their apparent universal appeal, [social networking sites] are effectively ‘locking out’ disabled visitors, the majority of whom can’t even register, let alone participate in the on-line communities they wish to join.

"Because the stomachs of cattle are meant to digest grass, not grain, cattle raised industrially thrive only in the sense that they gain weight quickly. This diet made it possible to remove cattle from their natural environment and encourage the efficienc

provide some control on how Wordpress displays the hierarchy of its page menu.

Free album from JH. Hurrah!

Watches what is going on within twitter and picks up anyone posting links to content. [Then tracks]how many other mentions of the same content are made (and how influential they are.)

If you’re a fan of the YourSQL utililty for MySQL, and you’ve recently switched to an Intel based Mac you’ve probably found that it runs slowly (or not at all) under Rosetta. I’ve compiled an Intel only binary and am making it available here.

In return for your help on organic farm, gardens and smallholdings you receive meals, accommodation and the opportunity to learn. Wwoof volunteers do not pay to stay with hosts and Wwoof hosts do not pay volunteers for their help.

With gDocsBar, you can drag and drop multiple files into the sidebar to upload documents. You can search, filter documents right from the sidebar.

Ever needed to find out who took a Flickr photo that you have saved? Type it in here and we'll find out who took it...

Is there a dearth of candidates in the digital industry? Is it hindering the growth of the sector? And what do employers, recruitment consultants and HR professionals think is going to happen this year?

Great article on the whole IE Version Targeting thing, including some excellent point on Mac/Safari user base and not relying on pure percentages when deciding on browser support.

Web sites can more efficiently meet both goals when developers understand the significant overlap between making a Web site accessible for a mobile device and for people with disabilities.

The relaunch of JKRowling.com saw LightMaker push the boundaries of accessible Flash. This case study provides an overview of key issues tacked to make the site as accessible as possible.

APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.

Probably best to ignore the dir="ltr" for majority of cases.

My personal experience registering for 87 accounts with the top online retailers and offer some tips for registration form design.

Painless ssh key management for OS X

a complete overview of many of the processes, techniques and strategies used by professional search engine optimization specialists.

GU site for coke

"Bread and Wine inhabits a smaller space than it's larger sister and is thought of as being less formal with a menu structured toward sharing plates amongst guests." Great meat, nice staff, reasonable prices.

About a year ago, I spent the better part of a day making this site's layout entirely em based and set on a vertical baseline grid [..] Your CSS becomes completely unmaintainable.

A real-time search engine for Twitter posts. Beyond that, TweetScan can do your searches automatically and email them to you

"Lightbox that supports images, flash, video, mp3s, html." Uses mootools, unfortunately.

Research-behaviour traits that are commonly associated with younger users – impatience in search and navigation, and zero tolerance for any delay in satisfying their information needs – are now becoming the norm for all age-groups.

Should any music be able to weather such a storm, it's reggae. If nothing else, its largely informal economy allows it to adapt much faster than the major labels in the US or Europe.

Advanced search functionality has not significantly developed in years. Poor matches and overwhelming search results remain a problem for users. Perhaps the standard search pattern deserves a new look.

Great article on Etsy.

I suspect, if micro-blogging is being used to replace stimulating, long-form blogging then readers will vote with their feet

More CSS resetting from Eric Meyer.

2008 may well also be the year of Peak Advertising. In the West at least. The year in which there is the most advertising. And after that there's less and less each year.