CSS-Tricks: Color Rendering Difference: Firefox vs. Safari
"The purpose of these color profiles is something I could into another time, but the important thing to remember to avoid problems like Norm's is to make sure all your images were exported in the same way and so they either don't have a color profile or all have the same color profile. This will ensure that the site, at least color-wise, renders the same from browser to browser."
lonelysandwich: excerpt from Obama’s speech to his staff
"...would he be instituting the most open and participatory executive branch our nation has seen, directly following the most closed and secretive? ... Oh, the answers are: yes, sure, and of course."
"I’d go so far as to say that the majority of the Web design field, by and large, is too easily motivated by technique, that the majority of us are thinking tactically far more often than we’re thinking strategically."
The Long Tail: Are dead-tree magazines good or bad for the climate?
"...although it generates no more or less carbon than magazine publishing, web publishing takes no carbon out of the atmosphere. So by this analysis dead-tree magazines have a smaller net carbon footprint than web media."
TechCruch: The Secret Strategies Behind Many “Viral” Videos
The head of a company that makes videos go viral explains exactly how it's done. The commenters go crazy. Very interesting in the specific sense, but even more so in the overall evolution of media.
Finally, a tutorial for getting size and line height to render and scale exactly the same in all browsers for a given font size. Requires some basic math in the stylesheet.
"Ponoko is the world's first personal manufacturing platform. It's the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand."
The API, which "has 10 times as much traffic as the site itself," has been arguably the biggest reason for Twitter's success. I'd say its simplicity and the fact that it was more or less the first of its kind were just as important. Good article.
Open Social Web: A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web
Authored by Smarr (Plaxo), Canter, Scoble, and Arrington. Brief but a good summary of recent concerns. Comments interesting, but post needs a follow-up soon, and we can probably expect a lot of activity on this blog after DataSharingSummit.
Redefining identity digitally. "As part of their Identity 2.0 profile, the user says what they want, and companies come looking for business. With companies in a position of constantly bidding for customer loyalty,