The Daily Report
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Live Today: Web Fonts Dialog
Update! Final audio and video are now available for your listening and viewing pleasure. Live today, Dan Benjamin and I grill Ethan Dunham of Fontspring and Font Squirrel and Jeffrey Veen of Typekit and numerous…
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Swiss Design
Swiss Origins – Graphic Design Highlights, 1933-1970 at Aqua-Velvet.
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State of Web Development 2010
The report from Web Directions’ second “State of Web Development” survey covers “technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices” employed by today’s web professionals. Download the complete (anonymized) set of responses in CSV format, gaze fondly at a…
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More Mod on the Digital Book
A Reading Heatmap: Key passages illuminated by layering all readers’ highlights for the same text. LAST MONTH, he wowed us with Books in the Age of the iPad, a call to make digital books as…
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Roll your own iBooks with ePub
In A novel concept: Roll your own iBooks with ePub, Macworld’s Dan Moren tells how to create your own e-books as easily as you export a PDF or GIF from an authoring program like Office…
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Like Buttons Falling From the Sky
CNN announces what you should know about Facebook’s changes: Buttons with the word “like” and a thumbs-up icon on them are going to start popping up all over the Internet [web]. By clicking one, you…
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Even Money
When a designer has no client, (s)he can sometimes do the best work. MONOmoda reviews a US money redesign by Michael Tyznik. The use of the Amendments to the Constitution is quite striking and smart.…
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A List Apart No. 304
Issue 304 of A List Apart for people who make websites squeezes JavaScript and delves into faceted navigation: Better JavaScript Minification by NICHOLAS C. ZAKAS Like CSS, JavaScript works best when stored in an external…
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Gawdz of Rawk!
Gawdz of Rawk on Flickr
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Go fly a kite
Oops! I forgot to write a blog post about the new $100 bill when I tweeted about it last night. It’s ugly as hell. And a perfect example of design-by-committee.
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Stop chasing followers
The internet is not a numbers game. It’s about dialog, persuasion, and influence. You don’t want a million people reading your HTML5 blog. You want members of the HTML5 working groups and key influencers from…
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Touch Gesture Reference Guide
The Touch Gesture Reference Guide is a unique set of resources for software designers and developers working on touch-based user interfaces including iPhone, Windows 7, Windows Phone 7, Android, and more. The guide contains an…
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My glamorous life
My small old shi’zu watches intently as I embed the five pills that keep him alive in little balls of hypoallergenic canned food—a process that takes five minutes and must be repeated three times a…
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Link Relations in HTML5
Mark Pilgrim has turned the WHAT Working Group’s blog into a tool of genuine outreach and tremendously helpful (even entertaining) information. His “Road to HTML5” column “explain[s] … new elements, attributes, and other features in…
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Verdana Pro (and Con)
Although Matthew Carter is overseeing the project and David Berlow of The Font Bureau is leading development, I’m feeling twitchy about Verdana Pro, a new print family from an old screen face. Start there: Verdana…