Ma.gnolia’s linkroll feature rules, but, like a list of “last 10 blog posts,” it is forever sending interesting content into the offscreen past. So here, frozen in time, and in some cases with expanded blurbage, are some of the latest bookmarks to appear in—and soon disappear from—the zeldman.com sidebar:
- Microsoft iPod
- A parody that says a lot about how design processes go wrong.
- Google Code: Web Authoring Statistics
- Which HTML ids and classes are most common? How many sites validate?
- Eyebrow Antics
- Illustrator Brian Tapley uses Flickr as a portfolio delivery system.
- Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business
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What do Boeing, General Motors, and a small bag-clip company have in common? They are all blogging about their business. It’s time for a practical book about business blogging: a book that offers concrete advice, no-nonsense research, warnings about common pitfalls, and real-world examples of business-blog successes and failures. A conversation with your market is stronger and more meaningful with a blog. When you’re ready to bridge the gap between blogging theory and business reality, this book will get you talking, easily and professionally.
- So runs the pitch for Peachpit’s upcoming Publish and Prosper: Blogging for Your Business, by DL Byron and Steve Broback (ISBN: 0321395387), now in presale mode. To save 35% and get free shipping, enter this code when you checkout: PP-234P-LKMS. (Journalists and teachers may request free evaluation copies.)
- Netdiver’s Best
- Long-running, always great design ’zine Netdiver.net publishes its Best Site Designs of 2005.
- S5 1.2a2
- Eric Meyer’s CSS-based slideshow hits 1.2 alpha 2 version.
- Open Letter to AOL
- The Open Letter to America Online is a vehicle for the entire internet community to express its “serious concern [about] AOL’s adoption of Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail, which is a threat to the free and open Internet.” The group explains:
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In February 2006, AOL announced that it would accept payment for incoming emails. For these certified emails, it would skip its usual anti-spam filters and guarantee delivery for cash. Our coalition believes that the free passage of email between Internet users is a vital part of what makes the Internet work. When ISPs demand a cut of “pay-to-send” email, they’re raising tollbooths on the open Net, interfering with the passage of data by demanding protection money at the gates of their customers’ computers.
- ourcommon.com
- The design portfolio of Peter Reid.
- Fl.ower
- Greg Storey blogs the creative process behind Ma.gnolia’s user interface design.
- Beggr 2.0 beta
- A one-way ticket to easy street.
- Images, Tables, & Mysterious Gaps
- It lives! Eric Meyer’s classic on CSS layout as intepreted by Gecko—core of Firefox, Mozilla, Camino, and Netscape—finds a new (and hopefully permanent) home at developer.mozilla.org. Rumor has it all the old Meyer writings are or will be available here.
- Linkology: How the Most-Linked Blogs Relate
- New York Magazine discovers blogs. I usually ignore this kind of coverage by this kind of source, but I’m linking because this is actually a good article of its kind—and of course because it includes A List Apart in its coverage (albeit with blurbage that suggests that the author doesn’t really know what he thinks he knows).
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