These are the articles, blogs, and resources I found interesting and worthy of sharing for 22 May 2009 from 09:46 to 16:52:
- Print versus Pixels in Newspapers – Lately, there has been a lot of talk about taking the “paper” out of the newspaper. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer recently went to an online-only format, and there has been criticism of the medium coming even from within the Times itself. Nick Bilton, who works in the Times’s research and development lab, was quoted in a recent Wired article saying, “Paper is dying, but it’s just a device… Replacing it with pixels is a better experience.”
- Oregon Police Performing Illegal Random Search and Siezure? From Salem-News.Com #PDX – You see Americans have this thing called the Fourth Amendment. Regardless of what police and government agencies say or admit, they do not have a right to randomly search your car or person or home.
The reason police get away with what they do is attributable to nothing less than a weak citizenry
- A Review of 25 of Your Favorite URL Shorteners – If you are a regular on twitter you know URL shortener services are all the rage. Some of these services have been around long before Twitter was ever conceived, others are brand new. Most of these services have one specific purpose, to take your long ugly URL and turn it into a shortened, easy to share one. When you click on the shortened link you are magically redirected to the original page of content.
- How to Write Really Bad Web Content – Your copy can make or break your website
- Advertising Agencies Treated Poorly by Marketers? – Small Agency Diary – Advertising Age – Marc Brownstein
Have you noticed lately that some people you have been accustomed to doing business with for years have suddenly had a personality transformation?I have. So have many of my friends and colleagues in a variety of industries. Tough economic times tend to bring out the dark side in perfectly civilized professionals. In the agency business, I’ve heard many troubling stories:
- SquareSpace v. WordPress – The Best Blogging Platform – I blog, you blog, millions of people blog. Finding the best platform or software package is vital to any blogger. I recently went through a very messy transition from TypePad [for blogging beginners] to my own self hosted WordPress install. However, I started talking to the lead developer and founder of SquareSpace, Anthony Casalena , an acquaintance of mine, about the commenting system they use, and how they handle spam. I began to wonder how SquareSpace was doing, a service that I had not played with for a while. I have tested the system extensively, and am now prepared to compare a self hosted WordPress install and a hosted SquareSpace blog.
- Review: Squarespace.com vs. Wordpress –
- How [the Opera Web Browser] Business Model Works – In the Jon von Tetzchner Q
- Can Anybody Be A Freelancer? – Naturally, there are some practical prerequisites to starting a freelance business. Without these practical prerequisites, I don’t believe that a person could freelance successfully.
- TypeTalk: Letterspacing – Is it a type crime to add lots of space between characters? Or is letterspacing OK?