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Great example of original content production, and internet distribution coming out of the church I think.

Dark fiber - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Dark fiber overcapacity

In the dot-com boom, a large number of telephone companies (or telcos) built optical fiber networks, each with the business plan of cornering the market in telecommunications by providing a network with sufficient capacity to take all existing and forecast traffic for the entire region served. This was based on the assumption that telecoms traffic, particularly data traffic, would continue to grow exponentially for the foreseeable future.

Unfortunately for them, the collapse of the dot-com boom left fiber supply greatly exceeding demand of even the least optimistic forecasts by a factor of up to 30 in many areas. The availablity of wavelength division multiplexing further reduced the demand for fiber by increasing the capacity that could be placed on a single fiber by as much as a factor of 100. As a result, the wholesale price of data traffic collapsed. A number of these companies filed for bankruptcy protection, or went bankrupt, as a result.

Just as with the Railway Mania, the misfortune of one market sector became the good fortune of another, and this overcapacity created a new telecommunications market sector.

I need to hire some designers. The position is with the distributed Web agency where I work. I need some good people, not just good portfolios. People who are willing to work and be independent, ramp up quickly and get it done. Who see problems as fixable. Who have ideas but don't force ideas. They need to be self-motivated, and not self-righteous. I don't really care how much experience they have as long as they want more. They need to be somewhat flexible on hours and willing to prove themselves. They need to get Web. They need to know print. They need to be OK and at peace with using Office and PC.

Do you know anyone? Are you cool? Have them hit me up personally.

Oh man after upgrading to 1.5.0.1 I was missing spell check, but now using the development version, which has improvements like ctrl+left click drop down fixing, I am oh so happy.

install the new Spellbound Development version 0.9.8.20060108 [exchangecode.com]

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Do you search the internet? Why not use BLINGO and try and help us win prizes, I know it works.

Also I still need a few more Icon Deliveries, so if you have any to pass on let me know. Looking for Shanghai Tech...

UPDATE:

I've now recieved:
Taipei Night Market
Manhattan Night Life
Oslo Finance
Oslo Atmosphere

Looking for:
Taipei Buddies 1
Taipei Buddies 2
Shanghai Tech Vector
Shanghai Tech thanks sara

to anthony [at] ianniciello [dot] net

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All Your Travel Belong to Us.

Some good friends of ours, Lee and Sachi, The LeFever's, will be leaving soon for a trip around the world and Lee has finally taken the wraps off his new little baby and launched:

Link: The World is Not Flat.

Check it out, Lee is doing a lot of neat things to collect others experiences prior to leaving and in progress of the trip to know out of the way and valuable things to do. He is putting his professional experience to practice for the trip and will also be blogging the whole thing.

We are looking forward to a year of intersting reads.

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Last night while procrastinating work that needed to be done around midnight here, I clicked over to Neubix Designs blog The Big Noob and Ryan had just posted a utterly simple contest, which I handily won. I thought it might be a April Fools it was so easy but hey, with in 30 minutes I had a new CD downloaded "Acceptance - Phantoms" and a 20$ gift Certificate to iTunes. Thanks again guys, very nice of you. They do great work, and work that has really picked up a following (read copying) across the web in a real short amount of time.

Its funny "Acceptance" is a actually local Seattle band, that I have never heard of, but I have been off the KEXP for a bit now, they are pretty good, in the Genre of "Power Pop" -I will have to give it some time.

So with the twenty-twin-twin I picked up:

Madvillainy - Madvillain

Good stuff, though I had heard it was the best thing since Deltron 3030, and I am not sure I agree. The single "All Caps" is beats, but the rest is a little muddy, I think it will grow on me. I used to love MF Doom as Zev Love X with KMD, I can still recite most of that song off The Cactus album, from 80-dekka.

The New Beck Album - Guero

It is pretty good, like all Beck is good, I am not totally blown away but it is good funk and fun to listen too. More upbeat that the last one, but lyrically I find it hard sometimes to dig it.

Thanks again Guys.

I was thinking recently about a problem some photographers have asked me about when they build their personal photo sites and have large groups of pages sequentially numbered with a single image and a next and back button on each. I sucks to have to edit each page to go to the next link and back page, when you start to have 50+ pages, even 10 is less than fun.

I know very little about PHP, but try to learn when I need to know more, so excuse me for the logic errors in what I am posting (and please tell me where they are!) I burned up google looking for this type of solution and could find nothing so direct. I suspect because it is so simple that most people who know PHP would do it with out thinking about, and PHP is open source so there is SO much content online it is hard to narrow it down to such a simple usage example.

All you have to do add this PHP to your page, and duplicate the page as for as many images you have. Naming the pages sequentially and the images the same way. (1.html, 2.html, 3.html.... and /images/1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg.... and such), and done.

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In the Head:
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Establish the variables in the head of the doc.
Setup a variable like "$thisPage" and make that variable set itself by seeing what the file name is and removing the file extension, in this case .html

So if your file is at www.domain.com/photo/1.html
This will set these valuables:
$page = /photo/1.html
$thisPage =1

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In the actual content:
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Use the established "$thisPage" for all the references to the next and back links and linking to the image.

The image is the same as the page number:

Next link:

Back Link:

This is image/page number:

Again, then all you have to do is duplicate the page as for as many images you have, naming the pages sequentially and the images the same way. (1.html, 2.html, 3.html.... and /images/1.jpg, 2.jpg, 3.jpg.... and such), and the pages to the work, you may have to set the 1st and last page to link to eachother, and done.

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Steve, the ex-host of Blues Clues put out an album. songs for dustmites, you can listen to the whole album here. Emo rizock?

I've always thought Blues Clues was a pretty cool deal, not sure how much Steve was involved in the process, I am sure to a pretty good degree, but I always like the fact that they made the show purely for kids, even to the extend that they repeated the same show every day of the week to help kids feel good because they knew what was coming.

Thanks tohttp://www.thesneeze.com/, which I find very funny.

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USATODAY.com - BuyMusic's downloads strike a sour note

The problem: Unlike MP3 music tracks plucked from the Net from pirate sites such as Kazaa, music on BuyMusic is encoded in Microsoft's Windows Media Audio format. The "digital rights management" coding limits what can be done with the files. The files will be recoded to allow for transfers, Blum says.

It's an early embarrassment for BuyMusic, which rushed to be first to offer song sales without subscription fees to users of Windows PCs. The Net retailer made a splash with a 160-foot-high Times Square billboard featuring a near-naked Tommy Lee. It sells MP3 players by Creative Labs and others.

Apple has sold 6.5 million songs since April; BuyMusic won't release figures, but "it's not millions," Blum says.

I think that they are just a victim of there own idiocy and general attitude of trying too hard to direct the consumer.

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USATODAY.com - Unlimited downloads are now PC

"Buy.com kicks off with a $40 million ad campaign (1,900 TV spots in the next two weeks) and the introduction today of the "world's largest billboard" — 150 feet high, 60 feet wide — in Times Square with a near-naked rocker Tommy Lee, who is the service's spokesman."

To start with, how lame and toolish. The tagline for the service is Get Loaded. How lame.

"If you don't support Windows, you cut off 97% of the market," Blum says. "The iPod is the best little product I've ever seen, but it's like building the best car in the world, yet it doesn't use everyone's gas."

What? I fail to see how the MP3 format is not more like "everyone's gas" than lame ass Windows media format dumbass.

""The reason Apple has done so well is they've advertised it really well," Cohen says. "None of the other services has done a good job explaining its message.""

Partially right, but that ius because that message is simple, pay for your music and it is yours. Not pay for it but only use it in some places. The whole agruement about making MP3's available from iTunes and calling it "Apple proprietary" is like a bad marketing message. Apple has just built a tool to help people do what they are already doing, not trying to build a new forced format user method.

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Do you remeber when Dan was a Market Maker?

Or maybe The Dan Swanson Project?

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Lee has a good post about corporate weblogs, I really think that is true what, Tim O'Reilly says-
"...views blogging as a way for chief executives to do an end run around the company's public relations firms and "glossy brochures" and speak directly to customers and vendors."

Marketing and design have much potential for getting in the way as the economy struggles and design and marketing firms fight for business and begin marketing and branding everything.

Common Craft - Online Communication Planning: More Momentum for Corporate Weblogs

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Yes!, thank you apple, please follow thru with this.

ZDNet India : Apple plants seed of iTunes for Windows

quiet american

They have a bunch of one minute MP3's from around the world. Pretty cool, though I still dig the heating oil post from antipixel

Have you seen the expoding whale video?

The Infamous Exploding Whale

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Communication Culture> Negative Feedback in Customer Communities: A Liability or Opportunity?

Lee rights about how to view the potential for negative ffedback in an online community as a good thing.

"Like NPR reading negative comments on the air, companies have an opportunity to view negative comments in online communities as a new chance to connect and serve customers. Just like the connection I felt to other listeners when negative feedback was voiced on the radio, customers feel connected when they realize they are not alone and someone is speaking for them."

Macromedia has posted a report on their redesign findings and what they hoped to do. It is a great thing to see a company like this put public, I have always been a fan of the Mac since I am a big Freehand user, in a small pond it seems, but this is a really great resource and I hope a trend of the industry to help the whole experience of the web improve. I do realize that they are still trying to push thier "Rich Internet Applications" mantra but I am still happy to see this go public.

Macromedia - Macromedia.com Progress Report: Beta 1

First we learned (again) that it’s the experience (stupid). You can’t learn that lesson enough.

We have talked a lot in the last year or so about the importance of Rich Internet Applications, about how they blend together content, communications and applications to create experiences that enable people to quickly and effectively complete tasks. Our first key lesson from Beta 1 is that there is a distinct difference in how people interact with content compared with an application. With Rich Internet Applications, people expect to—and are willing to—invest a little extra time in loading because they know that the end result will be quicker.

I'd add that they have fixed some duh type of things, like originally the logo did not link to the home page.

Anther intersting link :The Story Behind the New macromedia.com Beta

Revamped Macromedia site irks customers | CNET News.com

Others object to lengthy waits for their browser to load the home page, confusing menus and other navigational issues. Macromedia has stressed Flash's ability to improve such "usability" issues, but the company's site shows just the opposite, said Hal Pawluk, a Los Angeles advertising consultant.

"Right now, the site is 'All Flash, no dash,'" he said. "The pages need to load much, much faster. I'm on a cable modem...I was not able to use the link I wanted to use for 37 seconds. Most surfers, including many developers, are still on dial-up lines, so multiply those times by at least a factor of five."

I agree that the site is slow, Macromedia is trying very hard find good uses for the technology, the idea that flash can make things more usable is a funny one, and very theoretical. Right now I think that what thery are doing is still ahead of the market, which is a problem with the whole tech sector at the moment, and developling their own propretary way to handle things like drop downs does not by default make things more usable. More likely they have complicated things in order to make them more suit and highlight the flash apporach.

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Switch to Web Services

This is probably the worst thing I have seen a company do in recent memory.

Quote: "Frankly, this is our first Quicktime movie and our 'skillz' are nearly nil. So, if you're having problems viewing these puppies, try downloading them. If you're still having troubles viewing it, email us. We won't be much help, but we'll share your pain."

Even though they are being funny, I can't help but think of this as the type of technical supprt you would recive from their software product as well.

Macromedia

Macromedia has done a redesigned, it is flash flash flash to be sure and understandably, but It still does not even work that hot, and is not really that much of an imrpovement over the previous one. I think one of the funnier things is that, the site does not have top nav drop downs.

Communication Culture: Online Community Announcements- I try to get'm right

A good little post by mister Lee on making the little communications count. I really agree with this, I spend more thime that I should on the front end of an email trying to make sure what comes back is what I want and pre-thinking for the person on the recieving end. I do think that is makes my larger more complex projects go well, and in the end gives me more free time.

This post also inpired me to my Heuristics list: (but I cannot find it, so here are some home page design recommendations, a lot taken from Neilsen:)

Make the Site's Purpose Clear: Explain Who You Are and What You Do

1. Include a One-Sentence Tagline

2. Write a Window Title with Good Visibility in Search Engines and Bookmark Lists
Begin the TITLE tag with the company name, followed by a brief description of the site. Don't start with words like "The" or "Welcome to" unless you want to be alphabetized under "T" or "W."

3. Group all Corporate Information in One Distinct Area
Finding out about the company is rarely a user's first task, but sometimes people do need details about who you are. Good corporate information is especially important if the site hopes to support recruiting, investor relations, or PR, but it can also serve to increase a new or lesser-known company's credibility. An "About " section is the best way to link users to more in-depth information than can be presented on the homepage.

Help Users Find What They Need

4. Emphasize the Site's Top High-Priority Tasks
Your homepage should offer users a clear starting point for the main one to four tasks they'll undertake when visiting your site.

5. Include a Search Input Box
Search is an important part of any big website. When users want to search, they typically scan the homepage looking for "the little box where I can type," so your search should be a box. Make your search box at least 25 characters wide, so it can accommodate multiple words without obscuring parts of the user's query.

Reveal Site Content

6. Show Examples of Real Site Content
Don't just describe what lies beneath the homepage. Specifics beat abstractions, and you have good stuff. Show some of your best or most recent content.

7. Begin Link Names with the Most Important Keyword
Users scan down the page, trying to find the area that will serve their current goal. Links are the action items on a homepage, and when you start each link with a relevant word, you make it easier for scanning eyes to differentiate it from other links on the page. A common violation of this guideline is to start all links with the company name, which adds little value and impairs users' ability to quickly find what they need.

8. Offer Easy Access to Recent Homepage Features
Users will often remember articles, products, or promotions that were featured prominently on the homepage, but they won't know how to find them once you move the features inside the site. To help users locate key items, keep a short list of recent features on the homepage, and supplement it with a link to a permanent archive of all other homepage features.

Use Visual Design to Enhance, not Define, Interaction Design

9. Don't Over-Format Critical Content, Such as Navigation Areas
You might think that important homepage items require elaborate illustrations, boxes, and colors. However, users often dismiss graphics as ads, and focus on the parts of the homepage that look more likely to be useful.

10. Use Meaningful Graphics
Don't just decorate the page with stock art. Images are powerful communicators when they show items of interest to users, but will backfire if they seem frivolous or irrelevant. For example, it's almost always best to show photos of real people actually connected to the topic, rather than pictures of models.

Communication Culture: Online Community Announcements- I try to get'm right

A good little post by mister Lee on making the little communications count. I really agree with this, I spend more thime that I should on the front end of an email trying to make sure what comes back is what I want and pre-thinking for the person on the recieving end. I do think that is makes my larger more complex projects go well, and in the end gives me more free time.

This post also inpired me to my Heuristics list: (but I cannot find it, so here are some home page design recommendations, a lot taken from Neilsen:)

Make the Site's Purpose Clear: Explain Who You Are and What You Do

1. Include a One-Sentence Tagline

2. Write a Window Title with Good Visibility in Search Engines and Bookmark Lists
Begin the TITLE tag with the company name, followed by a brief description of the site. Don't start with words like "The" or "Welcome to" unless you want to be alphabetized under "T" or "W."

3. Group all Corporate Information in One Distinct Area
Finding out about the company is rarely a user's first task, but sometimes people do need details about who you are. Good corporate information is especially important if the site hopes to support recruiting, investor relations, or PR, but it can also serve to increase a new or lesser-known company's credibility. An "About " section is the best way to link users to more in-depth information than can be presented on the homepage.

Help Users Find What They Need

4. Emphasize the Site's Top High-Priority Tasks
Your homepage should offer users a clear starting point for the main one to four tasks they'll undertake when visiting your site.

5. Include a Search Input Box
Search is an important part of any big website. When users want to search, they typically scan the homepage looking for "the little box where I can type," so your search should be a box. Make your search box at least 25 characters wide, so it can accommodate multiple words without obscuring parts of the user's query.

Reveal Site Content

6. Show Examples of Real Site Content
Don't just describe what lies beneath the homepage. Specifics beat abstractions, and you have good stuff. Show some of your best or most recent content.

7. Begin Link Names with the Most Important Keyword
Users scan down the page, trying to find the area that will serve their current goal. Links are the action items on a homepage, and when you start each link with a relevant word, you make it easier for scanning eyes to differentiate it from other links on the page. A common violation of this guideline is to start all links with the company name, which adds little value and impairs users' ability to quickly find what they need.

8. Offer Easy Access to Recent Homepage Features
Users will often remember articles, products, or promotions that were featured prominently on the homepage, but they won't know how to find them once you move the features inside the site. To help users locate key items, keep a short list of recent features on the homepage, and supplement it with a link to a permanent archive of all other homepage features.

Use Visual Design to Enhance, not Define, Interaction Design

9. Don't Over-Format Critical Content, Such as Navigation Areas
You might think that important homepage items require elaborate illustrations, boxes, and colors. However, users often dismiss graphics as ads, and focus on the parts of the homepage that look more likely to be useful.

10. Use Meaningful Graphics
Don't just decorate the page with stock art. Images are powerful communicators when they show items of interest to users, but will backfire if they seem frivolous or irrelevant. For example, it's almost always best to show photos of real people actually connected to the topic, rather than pictures of models.

Dialing for bloggers | CNET News.com

Interesting.

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Antipixel | Blog | Heating Oil Jingle

Winter, late afternoon, a rainy twilight. The heating oil truck is making its way through the neighbourhood, playing its winsomely melancholy jingle.
Heating Oil Jingle, Rainy Night (228K mp3, 00:00:28)
Three cars come by with perfect timing, and from 00:00:16 the rain stops. A drop of water falls onto the tin above the window.

I think this is a really cool recording, so atmospheric, it is pretty cool I think that I can listen to this everday type of audio from halfway around the world, not something I would get via traditional media.

Staples.com: Yeah, we've got problems :: Kalsey Consulting Group

Good comments on writing usable error messages.

ATTENTION: Your web browser is not currently configured to accept "cookies." Cookies are small files that are stored on your PC and that identify you to our site. In order to shop or register on Staples.com, you must be able to accept cookies. Using cookies enables us to make your shopping experience more efficient and pleasant through personalization.

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"It's not polite to talk with your mouth full, and it's not polite to talk on the phone while you're taking a dump. And that pretty much sums up food etiquette from beginning to end." - AtreNet Ticket System

Damn I hate being sick, it makes working at home a bit of a curse. You do not have the ability to not go to work, sure you think you can take a break and go lay down, but you cannot leave work.

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http://www.identify.com/

Liquid home page, with lots of moving text and animations, all of which offer no increase in the usability or effectiveness of the site. The main navigation, which is minimized and recedes into the layout of the page, moves making it potentially hard to find in relation to their items that do not move on the site as it liquefies. The home page is liquid but its minimum width is still above 760-800px standard of most users, but yet under 1024px the next most used mention size up, meaning they are under utilizing and miss managing screenspace. In fact at an 800x600px window almost every element on the page is cut off somehow, which is a statement on the lack of focus the site has.

Graphically the heavy use of stock people in overly used, overly posed positions, looking at a dot from the company logo turned into a kind of bean shape is irrelevant, and a bit embarrassing. It takes work for the user to figure out to connection, it is not readily apparent what it is supposed to mean, or even if it is supposed to look like it does. It looks more like a pill than something that has to do with software testing, it is used for headline keys, flash animation, and other random nonsense, which make a misguided, diluted statement about the logo and brand message from the company.

The content on the home page is organized rather haphazardly, the scrolling list of customers in the "Over 2,000 Customers" section is a terrible idea, and a horrible implementation, it is the most active item on the page and therefore draws attention to it, yet the user cannot stop it to look at something that has scrolled by, cannot click a particular logo or fast scrolling company name, or even click the entire item to get anything if they are interested in Identify customers.

Home page event items in some cases link directly to the event site in a pop up, which is a good way to loose visitors directly from the home page. News links go directly to PDFs with out warning and present another barrier to site entrance. All over the site, links lead off the site, to not HMTL content and do all these thinks with out giving the user any warning, and leading to a disorientation and apprehension to using the site.

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http://www.kana.com

Flush left, fixed width site. Decent large scale flash piece on the home page, main positive is that it ends with useful items that recap the message and present the user with choices to follow based on those items, though the image used for High Tech seems a bit odd compared to the others in the set. It contains an item to skip the intro and allows the user to jump to the end if they have seen it but would like to use the links again.

Rollover navigation that nudges or moves other navigation items unexpectedly is undesirable, her it is caused by bolding the font in the secondary nav and I am unsure why in on the About Us rollover.

The Yellow content area under the flash intro, offers no explanation of the content that is included within it, it gives them the ability to change out the items and messages without having to redesign the page, as long as the content fits and is visually appealing. The use of ">more" links for all three of the content offerings on the home page is not recommended, on quick scan it may not be apparent that they all link to different items, and what the user will get by clicking them.

They have broken some standards by having the KANA logo on the right and the search material and toolbar flush left. They also do not use the KANA logo as a link back to the home page, but do have a home link in where the logo should be, in the tool bar.
sloppy.

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http://www.netiq.com

Home page content is centered, and effectively presents the information with out losing the user by forcing liquidity onto the home page, keeps from moving elements around, and helps retain the layout of a very full page while making an attractive presentation.

The home page minimizes the main navigation bar, and looks as thought there is too much information being crammed into too small of a space. Included in the banner the netIQ logo and tagline feel cramped into the space, giving the impression that this may be some type of portal site where netIQ is a secondary brand to the page, and of less importance, which is certainly not the case. The "about us" navigation item and the "contact us" item are separated by "partners", that seems strange to me, as well as contact us as a main navigation item for a company of this size. Recommendation would be to lose the "contact us" item and move "partners" to the left of "about us". Contact information is well served in toolbars for easy access, and prominently displayed at the bottom of the page as well as in the about us section. The limited navigation choices from the main nav is good, a simple search input box should be available directly from the home page rather than just a search link.

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http://www.empirix.com

Another site that is trying hard to get rid of the users main navigation, it is so small and irrelevant, it is all but useless and takes a steady mouse to use. The tagline "Stressing Performance" is about as uninformative as it could possibly be, do they test the stress performance of steel beams? Do they help people with stress performance anxiety? Are they stressed out trying to perform for their client?

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This looks useful MovableBLOG

Damn I just keep finding more useful MT links, i.e MT Plug-ins dir.

http://www.homedespot.com/ I'm sorry but Lowes is a much bigger pile of shit, anyone?

I used to subscribe to cube.ign.com, and ign in general cause I play a bit of the video games from time to time, but I had to stop, I got too wrapped up in utterly useless news about what is happening with video games. I think that at the moment I am only excited about Zelda in March and that is about it, I may pick up a cheap copy of Metroid if I can find it. But beyond NCAA footbal, I can;t say I am much into the gaming these days. Too sad.

But one thing I did learn from reading game sites is that I really liked the "Mail Bag" sections of those sites (until Gamespot stop doing theres, which is the main reason I on moved to reading IGN), but I really dug the easy level of intereaction and feeling of community created by a bunch of people everyday writing in hoping to get there question published. Maybe it was that the questionsa nd topics were all so pertinant to everyone reading that it always made it interesting, humorous references to other days of the mail bag were always kind of cool, and then just the fact that if someone has a question, chances are someone else would like to know it too.

Go check this out.

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2003 Press Releases 02 - Braun Consulting

"Results indicate that the most formidable challenges for marketers actually lie within their own organizations: developing inter-unit cooperation,"

I think that this is interesting. I will try to review it more later. It really points out the need for better communication culture within and between companies.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/856672.asp Artile on MSNBC.com interesting... got here from Blakes reckomendation to check out InstaPundit.Com

Ok so after reading this guys stuff, I really like it. I am not sure Blake knew just how conservative the guy is, or maybe I am making that up, but his points on limited government are well spoken, and his comments referenceing USS clueless who is pretty fuvking rad in his own right.

ok I am officially sick of flash websites, and flash crap in general, it has been building in me for along time now but a review of these idiots and I am done. There are just so many designers out there that are doing such a great job at being the same thing, while desperately thinking they are not. My only hope is these are all students and will soon flunk out and start factory jobs.

And I want every minute that I have waited for a stupid asinine flash site/presentation back, I feel violated, I could take a week long vacation with that time, I could write a book, but no, I waited so I could see some designers bloated ego dance across the screen and make noise, arg. I'm done. I know "DiK" is supposed to be some cool thing, but how many of these stupid mydesignissocool sites do we need? To push content garbage, I used to like looking at coolhomepages.com but anymore it ain't worth it, it is all flash crap, and poorly designed with terrible usability if I may add. I really think we better get ready for the looming technology backlash.

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