“A short guide to what works and what doesn’t when talking to reporters.”

“For Massimo, this was an ideological choice, an ethical imperative. ‘In the new computer age,’ he once wrote, ‘the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.’ For me, it became a time-saving device. Why spend hours choosing between Bembo, Sabon and Garamond No. 3 every time you needed a Venetian Roman? For most people — my mom, for instance — these were distinctions without differences.”

“OpenSourceCinema is a collaborative documentary project to create a feature film about copyright in the digital age. We want you to create parts of the film.”

“Speak Up, the first of the graphic design blogs to make any kind of impact, is not what it used to be. Don’t take my word for it, though. The news comes from the site’s irrepressible founder, Armin Vit, writing in a recent post titled ‘Speak Up: Now What?’ In the past year or more, says Vit, Speak Up has ‘run out of questions and even perhaps out of steam. Some of us (authors) have gone from outsiders to insiders. …We have done it all. We started to get repetitive and, well, sometimes even boring.’”

“Whoever he is, Banksy revels in the incongruities of his persona. ‘The art world is the biggest joke going,’ he has said. ‘It’s a rest home for the overprivileged, the pretentious, and the weak.’ Although he once declared that ‘every other type of art compared to graffiti is a step down,’ in recent years he has produced his share of traditional works on canvas and on paper, suitable for hanging indoors, above a couch.”

“Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the Internet has a lot to offer. From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about.”

“The vision of the Semantic Web is to extend principles of the Web from documents to data. This extension will allow to fulfill more of the Web’s potential, in that it will allow data to be shared effectively by wider communities, and to be processed automatically by tools as well as manually.”

“Google announced the launch of Version 2 of Google Analytics today. Over the next few weeks Google will upgrade current GA users to the new version. Many of the most frequent GA users (big or small) already have access to V2 as of this morning (please log into your account and check). Version 2 is so radically different and provides such a compelling value proposition to users of web analytics that I am excited to write a blog post about a product (the first time I have done this in 11 months of existence of this blog).”

“There are an abundance of new search engines (100+ at last count ) — each pioneering some innovation in search technology. Here is a list of the top 17 innovations that, in our opinion, will prove disruptivein the future. These innovations are classified into four types: Query Pre-processing; Information Sources; Algorithm Improvement; Results Visualization and Post-processing. [Some of these innovations are present in various Google properties, but are either missing or available only in limited form in the main search page…]”

“Below is a list of almost every web design gallery around. Feel free to use it for inspiration, or to submit your web sites.”

“No matter how innovative or successful a campaign might be, the agency developing it is ultimately beholden to its client. Accordingly, compensation typically ends when the contract does.

‘We don’t think that is a particularly equitable way to do our business,’ said Jim Coudal, president of Coudal Partners, an interactive marketing agency at 400 N. May (about 1100 west, just south of Kinzie).

‘The whole work-for-hire thing in design and advertising, where the client owns everything outright, is a broken model,’ he said.”

“Change the settings (by dragging the sliders, clicking on the bars, or editing the values) to calculate the overall width of your grid.”

“One of the new terms on the horizon is Microformats (sometimes abbreviated µF or uF) - formats, which make it possible to create meta-content which can be not only read, but also understood by machines (which was the basic idea of Semantic Web, which is not Web 2.0). This post is supposed to give you an idea, what Microformats actually mean, which advantages they have and how you can use them to enrich your content and make it more visible and understandable for search engines.”

“What happens around the world in one day? In a word – life. Here on Flickr, photographers are sharing what they see: snapping daily moments, recording history, telling stories, capturing beauty. To celebrate this global community, we invite you to join us in ‘24 Hours of Flickr’ – a day-long global photo project. On May 5, 2007, grab your camera and whatever else you need, and chronicle your day in pictures. The group’s photos will be featured at Flickr events around the world this summer and in a companion book, which will contain a selection of photographs chosen from the group…”

“Learning Rails from scratch can be a pain. But don’t fret, this guide provides the best Rails resources the Web has to offer.”