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22nd September 2005

The Design Encyclopedia

“A growing, collaborative resource that describes, tracks and explains culture, commerce, politics, media, sports, brands — everything possible, really — through design.”

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22nd September 2005

Photo Gallery Templates available

“Since describing and pointing to my photo galleries back in January this year, I’ve received lots of positive feedback, requests for the templates, and questions asking when they’d be available. Since the galleries are a personal, non-paying hobby, they took a back seat to other more pressing projects. In my spare time for the past several months, I made lots of additions and tweaks to the gallery pages. Meanwhile, I also started generalizing the templates, keeping in mind that I might eventually make them publicly available some day. That day has finally come.”

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22nd September 2005

No Mr. Ballmer, Microsoft Will Not Win the Web

“Reading through an article about Microsoft in Business Week, I was not shocked but oh so enraged by this bit from an interview with CEO Steve Ballmer: ‘We won the desktop. We won the server. We will win the Web. We will move fast, we will get there. We will win the Web.’”

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22nd September 2005

Apocalypse in New Orleans

“A firsthand account of how a small band of Times-Picayune journalists covered devastation and misery in their shattered home.”

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22nd September 2005

The craftsman-to-manager paradox

“As you move into management, the very things that made you effective as a craftsman are now deadly threats to your success as a manager. Your independence and self-reliance, which was an asset, is now a liability.”

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