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"Wired asked David Byrne — a legendary innovator himself and the man who wrote the Talking Heads song "Radio Head" from which the group takes its name — to talk with Yorke about the In Rainbows distribution strategy and what others can learn from the

"Some of the more notable releases on the PS2 in 2007." So I have a PS2. What of it?

This book will tell you how to market products and services through social media channels like blogs, podcasts and Facebook.

Should be testing their own site first, I think.

We have fallen in love with a particular visual style and we just will not let it go. Everywhere you turn there is a gradient. Drop-shadows are surrounding us. We are pinned down by rounded corners.

The idea of DOMAssistant is to provide a simpler and more consistent way to script against the Document Object Model (DOM) in web browsers.

"The idea was to collect sounds that came from all over the world to later integrate them to the song called "Going Places". So I posted a little loop taken from the song [and] 6 weeks after the post, I had received about 70 sounds." Good idea.

I think of all those endless microsites as the MarketingWeb; a large collection of gorgeous, entertaining, imaginative visually dynamic websites, only ever seen in boardrooms and awards ceremonies.

AJAX, rich Internet UIs, mashups, communities, and user-generated content often add more complexity than they're worth. They also divert design resources and prove (once again) that what's hyped is rarely what's most profitable.

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The Group calls itself a "place for anyone to share their experiences, frustrations and successes in driving change inside large organizations." Monthly meetings, the first being this week, will combine guest speakers and open discussion.

75 Best Practices for Design of Websites and Intranets, Based on Usability Studies with People Who Use Assistive Technology

I have put together a matrix of (western) fonts showing which are installed with Mac and Windows operating systems, which are installed with various versions of Microsoft Office, and which are installed with Adobe Creative Suite.

I've been thinking about a number of new product ideas lately. In doing so, I've been trying to come up with a way more structured way of evaluating them. Here's a first attempt at defining that.

"A suite of three applications to make network printing a bit easier for the mac enterprise community. Its designed to help end users to manage their network printers with ease, customize that process for your network, and operate a mac print server for a

"My intent for weblogs in 1997 was to make the web as a whole more transparent, via a sort of "mesh network," where each weblog amplifies just those signals (or links) its author likes best. 1998-1999 was for me the Golden Age of Weblogs."

A parody of Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years.

"BitTorrent and the like are simply new distribution models and the number of our viewers choosing to view our content this way is as relevant as those still choosing to watch on broadcast television. What’s missing is the definitive business model for

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Promo for The Internet Now In Handy Book Form! by David McCandless

Following Opera's action, today I am calling on Bert Bos, chairman of the CSS Working Group, and those higher up within the W3C including Sir Tim Berners Lee, to immediately disband the CSS Working Group in its current form.

Flickr now has stats for pro users. Nice.

Unofficial Flash iPlayer announcement with quick round-up of the competition.

New BBC iPlayer

Streaming Flash. Much better.

A few new tips in here.

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For those of us who make a little bit of money from royalties and permission fees [..] it's different. Free publicity has no value if all that happens is that even more people download your poems from the internet without paying for them.

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A blog of Radio 4. Not about Radio 4 but of it. We point to the bits we like, the bits you might have missed, the bits that someone might have sneakily recorded. Other speech radio from around the world will no doubt find its way here too.

Helps companies make sense of the mass of positive and negative things that are said about their brands in blogs, user generated videos, and images.

"The BBC [..] has a great blogging policy. Basically, so long as I don’t talk about finances, insult colleagues or things which obviously need to be kept secret (such as an impending deal with a company), I can say what I will. That includes admitting w

While it’s good to know that users of tools such as Tails and Operator will derive added value from your shiny semantics, it’s nice to be able to reuse that effort in your own code.

A package that contains everything you need to install, configure and manage Subversion server for your team on Windows platform. It includes Subversion, Apache and a management console.

These Guidelines apply to personal blogs and all other personal webcontent.

"Ten things Google has found to be true". Classic vision.

Amazon is ahead of the competition when it comes to selling physical goods over the web - so it is galling when the company gets it so wrong with digital downloads, says Cory Doctorow

If the fear of losing clients is holding you back from raising your rates, here are some pointers to help you broach the thorny subject of asking for more…

Google could return a search page with lots of results all from one domain. In the last few weeks we changed our algorithms to make that less likely to happen.

The iWPhone WordPress Plugin and Theme automatically reformats your blog’s content for optimized viewing on Apple’s iPhone and iPod touch.