November 12, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 6:05 am
[daring fireball]
Build your own Muppet (and then buy it)!
November 10, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 9:56 pm
Swype is a mobile device input format that allows for even faster text input by combining a keyboard and gestures.
November 10, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 5:29 am
[elavision] Web Without Words - a blog looking at websites just as storyboards.
November 7, 2008 (2 weeks ago) – 11:49 am
Lunchbreak in Rhodes
After a few days of playing Wii fit each morning, I’m finding it
harder to get it’s relentlessly cheery music out of my head.
Working at Rhodes is quite different to North Sydney, in every
conceivable way, although I have found one similarity: it’s quite
achievable to go for a walk [...]
November 4, 2008 (3 weeks ago) – 4:20 pm
If you like lists of blogging suggestions: 22 ways for a new blogger to improve.
October 29, 2008 (4 weeks ago) – 6:19 am
Over at copyblogger was a post about finding images for your blog posts.
Most people who are looking for images to use will be aware of flickr (free - read about how the licencing works) and istockphoto (cheap), but from the comments on the post, I found a few sites that I’d only vaguely heard of, [...]
October 12, 2008 – 8:48 pm
[problogger] 25 ways to build online community.
October 12, 2008 – 8:47 pm
The current financial crisis explained in simple terms (as to a 14 year old).
October 6, 2008 – 1:44 pm
From the amazing world of Flickr - photos of coat hangers. Better than it sounds.
October 4, 2008 – 7:54 am
[OLDaily] Short post asking the question if Facebook worked like Blackboard, how popular would it be?
Having used Blackboard for a course back at UTS, I can see the point - while it was good as a tool for facilitating online conversations, the very idea that everything is shut down at the end of every semester [...]
October 3, 2008 – 8:46 am
Strange Maps: World’s Earliest SatNav - a series of paper strips on a scroll, in a wrist-watch. Very clever.
September 23, 2008 – 8:50 pm
dilbert at OZ-IA
How true: how many people think that you can just add “easy to use” to the list?
September 20, 2008 – 6:39 am
I’m not generally one to use photos that other people have taken on my own blog, but if you’re that way inclined, this guide to finding and using Flickr images is easy to read, and comprehensive in its coverage of the different copyright models that Flickr users have for their photos.
September 18, 2008 – 9:45 pm
The salt and pepper shaker that made Disney $100,000. How many businesses would do this, these days?
September 18, 2008 – 8:38 am
In the days of letter-writing, this is an innovative Fan Mail solution.
September 17, 2008 – 10:58 pm
[@mpesce] online etymology dictionary - find out the history of words.
September 15, 2008 – 2:39 pm
[boingboing] somewhat creepy, interactive spider
September 15, 2008 – 2:37 pm
[cade and lisa] Why it’s hard to stop reading blogs
September 8, 2008 – 8:56 pm
[/karen/ - fb] NYT article on “ambient awareness” - the unusual aspect of digital life where via twitter and facebook and other social networks, there is a new way of relating to people.
September 2, 2008 – 11:24 pm
It’s perhaps a sign of where I should be moving in my career to see that I’m more excited about the tour of Google Chrome’s features - the explanation of how it will work, and how clear Scott McCloud’s illustrations are - than I am about a new browser.