“Over the past month or so I’ve been collecting some of my favourite favicons on the web for interest’s and posterity’s sake. In case you’re unaware, favicons are the wee icons that are displayed occasionaly, it seems depending on how the stars are aligned, in the location bar of your browser or in your bookmarks or in your tabs if your browser supports them. Some people have clearly put a lot of effort into their 16 x 16 pixel creations.”

“If ethical standards differ, then by how much? Does the kind of newspaper you work for or the country you live in make a difference? Most important, has digital technology started a revolution in photojournalism ethics? Or an evolution? From 1997 to 2002, I put these questions to photographers, journalists and editors in Australia, Europe and the US.”

“Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, but he had something bigger in mind all along. He tells [Technology Review] how his 15 years of work on the ‘Semantic Web’ are finally paying off.”

“Crazy photorealistic illustrations done with Adobe Illustrator. Outline views are available to see how it was done.” ókottke.org

“The public, archival format for digital camera raw data: Raw file formats are becoming extremely popular in digital photography workflows because they offer creative professionals greater creative control. However, cameras can use many different raw formats ó the specifications for which are not publicly available ó which means that not every raw file can be read by a variety of software applications. As a result, the use of these proprietary raw files as a long-term archival solution carries risk, and sharing these files across complex workflows is even more challenging. The solution to this growing problem? The Digital Negative (DNG), a new, publicly available archival format for the raw files generated by digital cameras. By addressing the lack of an open standard for the raw files created by individual camera models, DNG helps ensure that photographers will be able to access their files in the future.”

“When Umpqua, a small community bank in southern Oregon, decided to move into the big-city market of Portland in 1998, its executives figured that they would need a change of strategy. They also figured that they would need help. Instead of turning to a traditional management consulting firm, they hired ZIBA Design, a local firm with offices around the globe that specializes in industrial design and branding. ‘The question was, ‘How do you bring people into the bank?’ said Sohrab Vossoughi, the head of ZIBA.” (Thanks Noise Between Stations!)

“Iíve been looking so long for a simple Mac OS X tool that can take screenshots of pages that are much taller than my screen height, and Iíve finally found it: Paparazzi. There are three fields: URL, Width, and Minimum Height. Click ‘Capture’ to preview the screenshot. One more click to save a PNG. Thatís it. Go get it!”

“Working with numerous clients over the years, I’ve come across a few situations, that, looking back, if both parties understand these 10 tips, problemlematic situations could have been avoided.”

“Benjamin Franklin, printer and statesman, we salute you with a how-to on taking pictures from a kite… Minor assembly and gusts of wind are required.”

“David Brooks, cultural observer and author of Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There, proposed an alternative analysis of the American political scene in his New York Times column recently. ‘There are two sorts of people in the information-age elite, spreadsheet people and paragraph people,” wrote Brooks. ‘Spreadsheet people work with numbers, wear loafers and support Republicans. Paragraph people work with prose, don’t shine their shoes as often as they should and back Democrats.’ He went on to point out that ‘C.E.O.’s are classic spreadsheet people,’ five times more likely to donate to Bush than Kerry, and ‘Professors, on the other hand, are classic paragraph people,’ with Kerry donors outnumbering Bush donors eleven to one.”

“For information, there are 7. For interfaces, there are at least 4, identified on a mailing list: Things, Tasks, Tools, and Time. Can you think of others?”

“Ask any iPod user what they like the most about their device, and most will probably mention the scrollwheel. Hereís the story behind the company that makes it (hint: itís not Apple).”

“How did a map (that wasn’t a map) reshape London? Nicholas Crane on an iconic diagram.”

“A new book looks at creativity at the intersections of fields, disciplines, and cultures. An excerpt from The Medici Effect explores the far-flung food ideas of chef Marcus Samuelsson.”

“JPG Magazine is for people who love imagemaking without attitude. It’s about the kind of photography you get when you love the moment more than the camera. It’s for photographers who, like us, have found themselves online, sharing their work, and would like to see that work in print.” (Thanks Coudal Partners!)