The Daily Report
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Facebook and your privacy
Months after geeks who hate walled gardens hailed Facebook as the great exception, Facebook announces that it is wholesaling our privacy to any turdball with a dirty nickel to spend. So what else is new?
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Give HTML e-mail a chance
Ten years into the web standards revolution, e-mail client support for standards remains sketchy. A new group is doing something about it. They need your support.
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Guestbook spam gambit of the week
I love the smell of guestbook spam in the morning.
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Appreciating web design; setting type
Appreciating web design for what it is instead of wishing it were something it’s not; plus a better best practice for setting type on the web via CSS. And from the past: why typographically correct…
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Blue Beanie Day
On Monday, November 26, 2007, don your blue beanie to show your support for web standards and accessibility.
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Messed update
Installed Tiger update 10.4.11 this morning, which mainly provides Safari 3, which cannot access web content. It quits on launch every time.
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iPhone “disappearing photos” bug
With this bug, the iPhone camera does everything a camera should do, except take pictures. It seems to obliterate photographic data the moment you snap the shutter. If you take five photos, you get five…
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Facts and Opinions about Zeldman
Yesterday I spoke at BusinessWeek and was interviewed for a podcast that airs next week. Tomorrow I will speak for Carson at Future of Web Design. I will not be nicely dressed.
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ALA 248: Obscure meanings and addresses
In Issue No. 248 of A List Apart: Make people read your copy! Stop robots from reading your e-mail address!
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DWWS Facebook group
A few days ago, Douglas Vos of Dearborn, Michigan, created a Designing With Web Standards group in Facebook just to see what would happen.
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Deck deal
We have a slot open for November in The Deck, our advertising network for reaching creative, web and design professionals. Give us a holler if you can pull the trigger quick and we’ll make a…
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Into the murky deep
Tucked away in a quiet corner of The New York Public Library at 42nd Street sits a small, clean, neatly appointed classroom. At 3:30, we commandeered it for an impromptu meeting with an attorney.
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Don’t sleep here
Barely noticed in the builders’ gold rush, the poorest poor, pushed off the benches of Madison Square Park, take shelter in the very construction sites that signify their doom. (Photo essay.)
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Faster, pussycat
Have you ever bought clothes while traveling, and been unable to fit everything in your suitcase when it was time to go home? That suitcase is what my days are like now.
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That’s me all over
In the coming weeks, I’ll speak at Future of Web Design (NYC), Business Week (NYC), Web Design World (Boston), and Web Directions North (Vancouver, BC).