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New Slab in Town via typographyserved.com
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Betting on the web Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the “war” between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that build best-of-breed experiences atop lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the…
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The First Time A friend’s young son had just used the toilet and wiped himself for the first time. She congratulated him on being a big boy. To which he replied: “Mother. Surely you don’t expect me to…
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Doctorow on Pricing In Publishers Weekly, blogger, novelist, and bon vivant Cory Doctorow discusses price discrimination(“the idea that you make more money by segmenting your customers based on how much they’re willing to spend”) and demand elasticity (“the straightforward…
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Keming via zazzle.com
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Mid-Century Modern via blog.wanken.com From Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?
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You cannot copyright a Tweet CONTRARY to popular belief and Twitter’s terms of service, you cannot copyright a Tweet. Under US law, copyright is granted on publication to “original works of authorship” finalized in “fixed forms of expression” but this…
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Pixen: Bitmap Graphics in Style via opensword.org Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It’s designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But…
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David Berlow Type Specimens “A collection of David Berlow’s prolific typographic work as co-founder of Font Bureau is showcased in this impressive booklet, a celebration of him receiving the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) Typography Award in 2007. Specimen…
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Tumblr v. Posterous Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous’s Ass Posted via web from Does This Zeldman Make My Posterous Look Fat?
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Recent Tweets The Ultimate Hipster Irony http://bigthink.com/ideas/18758 Why You Can’t Work at Work | Jason Fried | Big Think: http://bigthink.com/ideas/18522 Seeing too many ultra-minimal/undesigned blogs labeled “beautiful” cuz they use a @typekit font or two. Uh-uh. I…
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Danzico on Berkun Whether it’s in front of a huge audience or a handful of executives, smooth public speaking is essential to a successful web design career. Yet most of us are more afraid of speaking in public…
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Fold, Spindle Another generation of technology has passed and Unicode support is almost everywhere. The next step is to write software that is not just “internationalized” but truly multilingual. In this article we will skip through a…
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Books Not Dead Headed to SXSW Interactive? Concerned about the future of books, magazines, and websites? Attend “New Publishing and Web Content,” a panel I’m hosting on the creative, strategic, and marketing challenges of traditional and new (internet…
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Quack I dreamed that my friend R__ turned into a giant, invisible duck. His only hope lay with a mystical lady doctor. While she worked on a magical cure, he stayed hidden in a small safe…