“We created the Igor Naming Guide in order to demystify the naming process. In it we show how and why great product and company names work, when focus groups and standard ways of thinking about them might have predicted otherwise. Igor’s own naming process is presented in excruciating but logical detail.”
“Stephen Gill takes pictures of those small moments most of us miss. In the first of a three-part series, Jon Ronson analyses one man’s obsession with the minutiae of modern life.” (Thanks City of Sound!)
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“While readers will only see the final Bob Staake drawing in print, there are a number of aesthetic and technical stages taken along the way. Learn some of Bob’s digital tricks by taking this Step-By-Step tour.”
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“In research, the find ó particularly finding the answer ó is cause for jubilation. But at what cost? Untold hours during which you initiate several false starts or follow a few distracting, albeit interesting, links? Personal defeat as search engines repeatedly yield too many hits with those at the top leading nowhere, or to irrelevant pages? And when you find the answer, can you trust it? Is it complete, authentic, authoritative and up-to-date? Does it help you envision the forest or spotlight just one tree? Successful Web-based research encompasses economy of time and effort. It also takes into account the quality of the answer. The key is to focus on the strategy and skill of the hunt rather than the find.”
“A list of multi-subject guides (with descriptions) to thousands of search engines covering hundreds of subjects. Listed in approximate order of size, specificity of subject categories, and some aspects of search engine collection quality.”
“For years, the Columbia Missourian has advocated and practiced public journalism. Now, in an unusual experiment, it is practicing what it calls “public prototyping” of a redesigned Sunday paper.” (Thanks Newsdesigner.com!)
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