“Hello, my name is Greg and I’m an online comic author. With the final chapter (for now) of Scott McCloud’s Zot! Online posted, what will become of the Zot! Online message board? Well, it seems likely that the current host, CBR, will allow posts for some time to come, but if anybody would like a second home for the community that isn’t dependant on CBR — a place to discuss the past, present and future of comics as an art — well, then I humbly invite you one and all to Zwol’s Reinventing Comics forum!”

“The Wireless Developer Network is an on-line community for information technology professionals interested in mobile computing and communications. Our mission is to assist developers, strategists, and managers in bridging the gap between today’s desktop and enterprise applications and tomorrow’s mobile users communicating via wireless networks.”

“Jean-Antoine Nollet, the Abbot of the Grand Convent of the Carthusians in Paris decided to test his theory that electricity traveled far and fast. He did the natural thing on a fine spring day in 1746, sending 200 of his monks out in a line 1 mile long. Between each pair of monks was a 25-foot iron wire. Once the reverend fathers were properly aligned, Nollet hooked up a battery to the end of the line and noted with satisfaction that all the monks started swearing, contorting, or otherwise reacting simultaneously to the shock… This story of the early days of electrical experimentation leads off The Victorian Internet, a fascinating story of the telegraph by Tom Standage, a journalist who writes for The Economist. Thankfully, Standage makes the point that the telegraph was the Internet of its age, but then lets the metaphor drop and tells the story of the spread of the telegraph on it’s own terms.”

“The Bauhaus firmly establish industrial design. It stripped away the decoration, and left clean lines of function. To some this represents the removal of all that is human in the crafts. To the teachers and followers of the involved in the Bauhaus, function was the primary concern, removing the past was a secondary consequence. The Bauhaus ushered in the modern era of design.”

“Jean-Antoine Nollet, the Abbot of the Grand Convent of the Carthusians in Paris decided to test his theory that electricity traveled far and fast. He did the natural thing on a fine spring day in 1746, sending 200 of his monks out in a line 1 mile long. Between each pair of monks was a 25-foot iron wire. Once the reverend fathers were properly aligned, Nollet hooked up a battery to the end of the line and noted with satisfaction that all the monks started swearing, contorting, or otherwise reacting simultaneously to the shock… This story of the early days of electrical experimentation leads off The Victorian Internet, a fascinating story of the telegraph by Tom Standage, a journalist who writes for The Economist. Thankfully, Standage makes the point that the telegraph was the Internet of its age, but then lets the metaphor drop and tells the story of the spread of the telegraph on it’s own terms.”

“The Bauhaus firmly establish industrial design. It stripped away the decoration, and left clean lines of function. To some this represents the removal of all that is human in the crafts. To the teachers and followers of the involved in the Bauhaus, function was the primary concern, removing the past was a secondary consequence. The Bauhaus ushered in the modern era of design.”

“Interactive Week challenged Cooper to come up with a design for a device, an application, or a Web site interface that illustrates why our GOAL-DIRECTED® approach to design leads to usable and successful products. In response to this challenge, we chose to create a design for a PDA application to help people find their way around an airport. We call it the Wayfinder. We followed our GOAL-DIRECTED® methodology to create this design.”

“Thanks to programmer-friendly syntax and a groundswell of community support, PHP has grown in popularity to rival its competition in the server-side scripting arena, which includes Perl, ASP, Cold Fusion, and JSP. While PHP was designed to be a language that presents a familiar face to developers experienced in languages like C and Perl, PHP is also Beginning PHP4 from WROX Press provides.”relatively easy for beginners to learn from scratch. Nevertheless, people with little or no programming experience will benefit greatly from a guided tour of the language to get them started, which is precisely what Beginning PHP4 from WROX Press provides.”

“The table in this report illustrates the top 100 web sites that are benefiting from web bugs. This is based on a sample of 701176 pages retrieved from 101991 different sites.”

“Dr. Claude Elwood Shannon, the American mathematician and computer scientist whose theories laid the groundwork for the electronic communications networks that now lace the earth, died on Saturday in Medford, Mass., after a long fight with Alzheimer’s disease. He was 84. Understanding, before almost anyone, the power that springs from encoding information in a simple language of 1’s and 0’s, Dr. Shannon as a young man wrote two papers that remain monuments in the fields of computer science and information theory.”

“One of the major problems, according to experts, is that the user experience is almost always left to programmers and engineers, who are driven more by a love affair with technology than empathy with the user … The result is that engineers and programmers often guess at what their users might want, or assume that users will thrill to the same kind of product the they would.”

“No matter how you use technology in your business, quality user experiences provide an essential competitive advantage. The partners of Adaptive Path are committed to advancing the art of user experience development. We believe that design is a strategic business issue, and that effective user-centered design improves profitability. We view success not only as launching an effective design, but also developing stronger organizations that can make wise decisions about design long after we’ve gone. That’s why we make sharing our knowledge and experience part of everything we do. Through consulting, publishing, and speaking engagements, we develop high-quality user experiences, and educate people and organizations to do the same.” The Dream Team? Yep, I’d say so: Lane Becker, Janice Crotty Fraser, Jesse James Garrett, Mike Kuniavsky, Peter Merholz, Jeffrey Veen, Indi Young.

This looks to be a strong, interesting newish weblog with some real good meaty links, everything from sound to XML to design to people and movements.

“Interactive Week challenged Cooper to come up with a design for a device, an application, or a Web site interface that illustrates why our GOAL-DIRECTED® approach to design leads to usable and successful products. In response to this challenge, we chose to create a design for a PDA application to help people find their way around an airport. We call it the Wayfinder. We followed our GOAL-DIRECTED® methodology to create this design.”