The Daily Report
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Fifth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards – #bbd11
GET YOUR BEANIE ON! The Fifth International Blue Beanie Day in support of web standards takes place around the globe on 30 November 2011. How can you participate? Glad you asked! Details are now available…
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Veen: Building Typekit on relationships
TYPEKIT FOUNDER JEFFREY VEEN has always shared knowledge freely, whether writing great books about web design and user experience, or (in this case) happily sharing a key secret of his business’ success: raising money isn’t…
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OFF MY LAWN!
IT IS NOT “IRONIC” when an article about web standards is published in an online magazine formatted in Flash, or PDF, or some other non-HTML format. It is not “ironic” when an article on responsive…
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Survey for people who make websites
THIS WEEK some friends launched Contents Magazine. Last night other friends threw a party to announce the new (free) Readability. Every day, around the world, hundreds of thousands of web people make magic, working in…
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SXSW love me long time
SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST Interactive (“SXSWi” or simply “South by” to its friends) has somewhat brazenly announced that I will be the first inductee in its new Hall of Fame. The induction will take place during…
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A Sea of Blue Hats
“LONDON, ONTARIO Digital Interactive Game and Web Conference Day 1. Jeffrey Zeldman delivered the keynote in the Web stream downstairs at London Convention Centre. Later that day, SxSW announced his upcoming Hall of Fame Induction…
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Air Travel As We Know It
My thrice-delayed, once-cancelled flight home has been resurrected and is boarding. No one was ever so happy to be flying coach to Newark.
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.net Magazine’s Top 25 Web Design Books
CONGRATULATIONS TO A List Apart technical editors Aaron Gustafson and Ethan Marcotte, whose Adaptive Web Design and Responsive Web Design were ranked #1 and #2 in .net Magazine’s “Top 25 Books for Web Designers and…
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5th annual Blue Beanie Day is November 30, 2011
New! Official Blue Beanie Day 2011 page, with banners and instructions.
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HTML5 dumps TIME element
“It’s with great sadness that I inform you that the HTML5 <time> element has been dropped, and replaced by a more generic – and thus less useful – <data> element. The pubdate attribute has been…
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Shutting off Compass Calibration in Location Services can stop iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S on iOS5 from sucking battery life and running hot.
I have an iPhone 4 and fwiw, mine was losing 10% per 2 hours and running warm as soon as I upgraded to iOS 5. In my case the culprit was quite easy to track-down.…
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New MobiUs Browser For iOS Makes Mobile Web Apps Act More Like Native Apps
“Mobile development firm appMobi is launching a new HTML5-powered browser for iOS on Monday which will bring additional capabilities typically found only in native apps to the mobile Web. The MobiUs Web App Browser, as it’s being…
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That’s love.
FOR TWO YEARS, our daughter was bullied in school. The school didn’t notice and our daughter didn’t complain so we didn’t know. Finally a mom saw and told us. After that, things happened quickly. One…
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On An Event Apart DC 2011
Jeffrey Zeldman – An Event Apart: Content First (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski Jeremy Keith – An Event Apart: Design Principles (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski Andy Budd – An Event Apart: Persuasive Design (lukew.com) – Luke Wroblewski Ethan Marcotte…
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An Event Apart DC
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