19/11/06
Spring Clean
I’ve had a couple of long train trips recently, which have given me the chance (with enough foresight to open all my bookmarks in the presence of an internet connection before getting on the train) to go through everything I’ve wanted to flag up for the past couple of months.
These things are never really that much fun to read, I know, and are almost offerings to the blog-god to ask forgiveness for being slack, so I’ll try to keep it brief.
Pimpmyspace:
includes how to add RSS incoming.
Colour Generator chooses a palette from a photo you upload;
Booksquare on how to avoid DRM, (and ACAP)
Yochai Benkler on networked communities:
The networked economy is transforming the way we capitalize business and culture. Yochai Benkler, one of the top thinkers on commons-based approaches to managing resources, weaves together several fascinating threads to argue that decentralization and collaboration are shifting the balance of power to the people in the production of knowledge, goods and services.
Which reminded me that Lewis Hyde, author of the Gift, incredibly smart and lovely guy, and who has this week appeared in a series of conversations with Margaret Atwood (who says that the Gift is the only required reading for writers), is writing a book on the commons.
Musically, Pandora tailor makes me radio based on Moodymann and Alice Coltrane; SeeqPod sadly didn’t work when given the same task. And I have no idea how I found this. Although today I found a great record shop on Leith Walk: ElvisShakespeare which also does books and was recommended on the Guardian Blog.
Some nice publishing creativefor the anagram bookshop in amsterdam, and by saatchi for mondadori
Overview of semantic vs table css
Michael Bierut on process:
For over twenty years, I’ve been writing proposals for projects. And almost every one of them has a passage somewhere that begins something like this: “This project will be divided in four phases: Orientation and Analysis, Conceptual Design, Design Development, and Implementation.” All clients want this. Sometimes there are five phases, sometimes six. Sometimes they have different names. But it’s always an attempt to answer a potential client’s unavoidable question: can you describe the process you use to create a design solution that’s right for us?
Businessweek on Jeff Bezos’ new direction (and first of many): leveraging latency in the network.
Oh, and finally, my reading list, recommended from the blogs:
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