Creative Community Bulletin 30 May 2009 Through 03 June 2009

These are the arti­cles, blogs, and resources I found inter­est­ing and wor­thy of shar­ing for 30 May 2009 through 03 June 2009:

  • WordPress 2.8 Beta Hands On Review | Weblog Tools Collection – If you haven’t tried the beta ver­sions of WordPress 2.8 yet, here is a hands-on review that talks about the key fea­tures made avail­able in this ver­sion of WordPress.
  • White People Problems (LOL) – Difficult cross­word puz­zles, in-grown hairs, and declin­ing stock port­fo­lios — it’s hard out here for a caucasian.
  • How to Quit Your Job with Style – Steven DeMaio – HarvardBusiness​.org – Maybe it’s because I quit my job sev­er­al months ago, but late­ly I’ve been con­nect­ing with a lot of oth­er peo­ple who have just quit or are on the verge of it. Reasons for tak­ing the plunge vary wide­ly, of course. But odd­ly, approach­es to announc­ing the deci­sion don’t seem to be near­ly as diverse. Many quit­ters more or less slink qui­et­ly out the door, with­out ful­ly artic­u­lat­ing why they’re leaving
  • Ten Years After Napster, Musicians Are Still Getting Screwed – Ten years ago yes­ter­day, Napster rev­o­lu­tion­ized com­mer­cial music by – we’re all grownups
  • The Wild Wild West of Social Media | Blellow: A Productivity Microblog for Professionals – the idea that social media is a new fron­tier of sorts for many folks has real­ly stuck in my head
  • Who owns your Twitter account? – So here is a legal conun­drum. You’ve been active on a num­ber of social media web­sites, such as Twitter, FaceBook or Digg. You have amassed a num­ber of friends and fol­low­ers and built a cer­tain amount of cred­i­bil­i­ty. You leave your job – take a bet­ter posi­tion else­where, move to anoth­er city, get laid off or fired – doesn’t mat­ter the rea­son.

    Who owns your Twitter account? Your FaceBook account? Etc.

    I thought it was a very straight­for­ward ques­tion, too. If it’s in your name, it’s yours. If it’s in the company’s name, it’s the company’s. Period. Or maybe not peri­od. Maybe ques­tion mark.

  • Jeff Dunham, Puppet Master – TIME – For most peo­ple, being caught in an enclosed space with either a ter­ror­ist or a ven­tril­o­quist would qual­i­fy as a hostage sit­u­a­tion. But Jeff Dunham, a ven­tril­o­quist, is per­haps the most pop­u­lar stand-up come­di­an in the U.S. And he broke through by play­ing straight man to a ter­ror­ist — a fiber­glass one.
  • 100 Tips about All Adobe CS4 Applications | Layers Magazine – Here we are three years lat­er with our Fourth Annual install­ment of one of our most pop­u­lar features.
  • Drifting Creatives | Designing Our Way Across the Country – We met a lot of cool peo­ple in down­town Texarkana, and some cool typography.
  • Google Wave: Future Of Communication On Web | Internet Techies – Important Activities On Wave

    * From the ini­tial look, it seems that one can share images between his friends and per­form real time com­mu­ni­ca­tion for that as well. kind of real time comments.
    * Playback any part of wave to see what was com­mu­ni­cat­ed at that time
    * Waves can be embed­ded on blogs and web­sites and invite view­ers to join your wave
    * Just drag and drop file shar­ing which means no con­cept of attachments
    * Language trans­la­tion and spelling cor­rec­tion will be done on fly in Wave
    * Developers can devel­op gad­gets for Wave. It is going to be an open source platform

    Screenshot of Google Wave

  • 20 Brilliantly Creative Bookcases – While it becomes eas­i­er to store dig­i­tal media, it seems to become more inter­est­ing to store the real deal. Your book col­lec­tion in par­tic­u­lar says a lot about your per­son­al­i­ty, so why shouldn’t your book shelf do the same? We found 20 of the most bril­liant book­cas­es for styl­ish readers.