Reuters is offering it s customers a dedicated online Olympic news service. The dedicated news service plugs straight into client websites and can be customised to fit with their own look and feel….
Bots, blogs and news aggregators
The brilliant Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a free 20-page whitepaper on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (PDF). Good stuff. I’m working on a similar effort for a new Social Media blog I’m about to announce….
Enhance your creativity through synchronicity
Making creative connections with other people is a powerful avenue to personal creativity, according to Jordan Ayan, in his excellent book, A-ha! 10 Ways to Free Your Creative Spirit and Find Your Great Ideas.
ChangeThis: Up And Running
Don’t think my “quiet period” about Seth Godin’s publishing effort — ChangeThis — last Friday had anything to do with a lack of enthusiasm for the project — not at all, I was just out and about, off to Vermont and generally very busy. So it’s even more fun to gush about it here on a Monday morning. It’s live…
Web as Platform
Jason Kottke writes: a distributed data storage system would take the place of a local storage system. And not just data storage, but data processing filtering formatting. Taking the weblog example to the extreme, you could use TypePad to write a weblog entry; Flickr to store your photos; store some mp3s (for an mp3 blog) on your ISP-hosted shell account;…
Digital Railroad: A New Hub For The Professional Photographer To Organize And Sell His Work
Digital Railroad Inc. today launched the first online archive system that gives the power of a large photo agency to individual photographers. Digital Railroad’s Web-based application services transform the individual photographer’s business. Digital Railroad, www.digitalrailroad.net, automates repetitive workflow tasks, as well as streamlines delivery of images and communications with clients providing photographers an online searchable archive that unlocks potential image…
From Beyond Bullets: Mystery Media
What kind of medium is PowerPoint? And where does it fit in the range of other media including film, TV, photography, comics, websites, and paper? Scott McCloud is one of the smartest people I know when it comes to understanding media, and when I asked him the same question in an interview recently, his response was basically: “I don’t know.”…
From Beyond Bullets: Signal to Noise
If your PowerPoint slides are generating more noise than signal, it’s time to fine-tune your approach and re-engineer your headlines. The engineering term signal-to-noise ratio describes the relationship between meaningful information (signal) to meaningless information (noise). The higher the ratio of signal-to-noise, the more meaningful information is being communicated. Read the rest here.
CSS Positioning
Heres a good explanation of CSS “positioning”:http://www.brainjar.com/css/positioning/default.asp from Brainjar. I’ve been working on a layout that is giving me fits lately – this should help.
From ALA: Preventing image/bandwidth theft
I need to dig into this a bit: “Preventing image/bandwidth theft.”:http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0704c.shtml#ala185