xBlog: The visual thinking weblog
28th October 2004

Thinking with Type

“The on-line companion to the book ‘Thinking with Type: A Critical Guide for Designers, Writers, Editors, & Students,’ by Ellen Lupton (Princeton Architectural Press, Fall 2004.”

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28th October 2004

The Science of Hiding in Plain Sight

“Steganography is the science of hiding one message inside another message ó hiding in plain sight, so to speak. Think of steganography as the soft-spoken yet elegant sister of cryptography. Where cryptography scrambles a message to prevent unauthorized people from reading it, steganography opts instead to hide the message in such a way that it is not obvious that there is anything there to see. Read on for a description of steganography, with example.”

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28th October 2004

A vision for the next generation of blogging tools?

“This is a question for non-technical bloggers. (That is people who use blogging tools, not those who develop them.) Premise: We’ve reached a plateau in blogging tools. There haven’t been a lot of changes in the last two or three of years. The growth continues, lots more weblogs, and we’ve got better tools for reading (aggregators). Question: What’s next in writing tools for weblogs?”

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28th October 2004

Banner ads tenth birthday!

“Banner ads turn ten years old. They’ve evolved, become flashy, carry sound, blink worse than the blink tag ever did and given birth to far more discreet things called TextAds. So what did the first banner look like?”

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