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Free Culture to Change Congress
Lessig believes that money is acting as a corrupting influence in Washington and is establishing a Change Congress movement to address that issue. Continue reading
Google Reader Shared Items- Mozilla Launches Initiative to Promote Browser Games September 8, 2010Mozilla, makers of the Firefox web browser, is looking to promote browser gaming in a big way by convincing developers to harness the power of HTML5 and other open web technologies.Earlier today, Mozilla Labs launched a new division: Mozilla Labs Gaming. It’s an initiative “committed to providing the game developer community with the platform and tools they […]Ben Parr
- WebPagetest and PageSpeed join up via PageSpeed SDK September 7, 2010Steve Souders just pointed me to the great news that two great open source performance projects are working well together: Pat Meenan just blogged about Page Speed results now available in Webpagetest. This is a great step toward greater consistency in the world of web performance, something that benefits developers and ultimately benefits web users. The Pag […]Dion Almaer
- Sign up with Google using OpenID September 7, 2010Some websites use the OpenID standard so that users don’t even need to type a password to sign in. While Google does not yet support the usage of OpenID for replacing passwords on its own sites, we are involved in the OpenID community’s efforts to research how to best implement that type of support. As a next step in those community efforts, we announced tod […]A Googler
- The Difference Between Good Design and Great Design September 7, 2010What’s the difference between a good design and a great design? When you sit down and start a new project, that should be one of the questions at the forefront of your concerns. Yours is a quest to constantly outdo your own past work. To go further and genuinely become better at what you do rather than falling into complacency, stagnation, and eventually, ob […]Jacob Gube
- TinySrc: Free Easy Way to Reformat Graphics for Mobile Devices September 7, 2010If you're working with mobile browsers tinySrc will dynamically scale your images down to the right size on the server side: PLAIN TEXT HTML: http://i.tinysrc.mobi/http://mysite.com/myimage.png To use, you simply prefix the URL to your image with a pointer to tinysrc: PLAIN TEXT HTML: tinySrc will then do the magic for you: Unless you tell it otherwis […]Brad Neuberg
- Mozilla Launches Initiative to Promote Browser Games September 8, 2010
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- Better than a Paywall May 26, 2010I'm impressed by the way the Guardian is engaging creatively with the internet instead of locking itself up inside a paywall. […]
- Layout Engine and Page Templates are a great combination April 6, 2010I've used this feature on a test server. It's giving me much more flexibility with fewer page templates. […]
- Guardian report on British Council evolution survey results is inaccurate. October 25, 2009The poll is far broader in scope. The summary from the pollster's website is:"New research, conducted by Ipsos MORI for the British Council, investigating awareness of Charles Darwin and attitudes towards evolution, has found that there is a broad international consensus of acceptance towards his theory of evolution."http://www.ipsos-mori.com/ […]
- It's not about you, it's about us October 2, 2009If you go into a bar, a restaurant, a convention or a dinner party you would not assume that all conversations were about you, or that you needed to participate in all of them simultaneously. Google Wave is like that. It's easy to see public conversations, and you can join in, but you don't have to. You can find the few people that interest you and […]
- These are the best cakes I have ever eaten. September 27, 2009I used to work within walking distance of Maison Blanc and would use any excuse to sample one of their cakes. My wife and I still obsess over the taste and texture of one particular cake base. My mouth is watering just thinking about the taste. Must visit Oxford again soon. […]
- The Sidewiki ranking algorithm can be seen in action on the New York Times home page. September 27, 2009At the time of writing only the two meatier posts are visible. The remainder have been relegated to the second page. I think the voting system will have an impact on the tone of the comments, as will the linking comments to a users profile. […]
- We have "fair use" rights. September 27, 2009"Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C. and 17 U.S.C. , the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, […]
- You own that site and I own these comments. September 27, 2009I'm intrigued by the question of ownership of engagement and discussion. I'm seeing a lot of successful bloggers expressing a lot of outrage, and yet normally receiving comments is something that bloggers love, excepting spam, unless it's really good spam. As I'm typing this I don't see what I'm doing as a defacement. My comment […]
- Balsamiq works well for me September 27, 2009I've used it on a couple of projects and found that it saves a lot of time, especially in the early stages. It's very convenient to be able to sit with a client and create a mockup of a site in a single meeting instead of having to bounce emails back and fore. Being able to type the names of controls and have them dropped straight into the workspac […]
- Useful white space in these free Twitter Graphics September 27, 2009It's nice to have room to drop in an @twitteraddress. […]
- Better than a Paywall May 26, 2010