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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Common Craft
If you havn’t seen any of the Common Craft videos yet, you need to. In one fell swoop, a couple in Seattle has transformed the HOWTO into a 5 minute video that can introduce anybody, even your own grandmother, to semi-complex web topics — all while speaking plain english.
They are amazing, inspiring, and just plain fun to watch. Common Craft creates teaching videos with humans in mind. They do 100% original work for their show: Common Craft TV, as well as doing custom videos for companies that one of them for their website or product.
“RSS in Plain English” video is available, after the jump.
Co-Working
One of the topics that really stood out for me at BarCamp Orlando, was Co-Working. Co-working is basically sharing a space with other freelancers, independents, telecommuters, mobile works, and other work-at-home types to foster a sense of community around the work that you do.
Patch for Extended Live Archives
If you’re using WordPress 2.3 and Extended Live Archives (a super-sweet Ajax’d version of the WP archives page), then you need to get this patch, in order to fix problems with it.
Paul Graham on The Future of Web Startups
There’s something interesting happening right now. Startups are undergoing the same transformation that technology does when it becomes cheaper.
A really interesting take when you apply Moore’s Law to the act of starting a Web 2.0 company. Read the entire essay, which was adapted from a Future of Web Apps keynote speech.
Rant: 1.1.1 iPhone Update
I am so sick of the misinformed iPhone-bashing articles and blog posts coming out because of the 1.1.1 iPhone update. There is plenty to beat them up on, but the points surrounding the iPhone 1.1.1 firmware update are starting to get out of hand (i.e. they aren’t based on the facts).
Free Ruby on Rails Book from Sitepoint
Patrick Lenz’s “Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications” eBook is being given away in exchange for your email address at: http://rails.sitepoint.com/
Getting Things Done
Wired has an excellent write up on David Allen, the author of ‘Getting Things Done‘. If you haven’t looked at the productivity hack that is GTD, you don’t know what you’re missing.
Living in the Long Tail
By now, we have all heard of Chris Anderson’s Long Tail theory. As someone who has promoted independent music, used to own a record label, and who still does a spot of music making himself – The Long Tail has been a particular interest of mine since the original article was published October 2004. I’ve been processing the concept ever since.
Google Maps – Public Transit features
Google Maps is starting to integrate Public Transit features. You can pick to ‘Drive There’or ‘Take Public Transit’when getting directions. Works for your city if you have decent public transportation.