OPENING THANG

Well, I don’t know about you, but it has been a crazy week for me. Very busy at IQHQ. Which, in these tumultuous times is not something I’m going to complain about. I snuck in a couple of hours to get greymatter running for gleanings, and I think you’ll like the results.

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Also in a strange mood around 1 am I suddenly changed the look of the front page. If I could decide I liked it, I might propagate it through the site. But I’m puzzled– I just broke my own process Tell me what you think about that, if you have a minute.

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DESIGN MATTERS

Interesting article about back-biting on ALA

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Happily misspent some time downloading fonts from the lovely büro destruct . Be sure to check out the book pages.

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A recent post on chi web set off a great exchange of sites with innovative

navigation (and unfortunately some rather snide commentary. everyone is so cranky

these days)

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USABILITY MATTERS

Noel deconstructs an online bank on the CLog

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and Peter attacks Style

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NEWS

My sister (stylewithsubstance.com) sent me this article proclaiming the web is the best thing since sliced bread for small business.

Three e-business myths debunked

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Dylan Tweney: Open secrets. (via tomalak.org)

These technical and market forces combine on the Internet to create an environment where information of the most private nature can quickly be disseminated worldwide, in seconds. In other words, “Information wants to be public.”

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and even if it doesn’t want to be…

3 Charged With Giving Lucent Secrets to China

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ebay is following Yahoo’s lead in banning all hate-related memorabilia

Ebay to Ban All Hate-Related Items
“The online auction site extends its policy as it makes an aggressive
push into international markets.”
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Razorfish Founders Quit Top Management Positions

“Mr. Maheu, who once oversaw North American operations and corporate development at Razorfish, called Mr. Dachis and Mr. Kanarick “industry pioneers and visionaries” and said the company’s goal was to “return to profitable operations and positive cash flow while successfully serving the expectations of our clients, shareholders and employees.”

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my commentary
http://eleganthack.wpengine.com/blog/archives/00000038.html

Why I’ll never use Blogger (via webword.com)
“For those unfamiliar with security, the FTP protocol transmits usernames and passwords in clear text modes which, means anyone on the Blogger network can easily sniff out a username and password to log into your webserver, plain and simple. I’m not saying anyone at Blogger would do so, at least I would hope not, but who’s to say that someone won’t compromise Blogger’s network in the future? Are you willing to take that chance?”
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I’ve heard similar things about greymatter….

APROPOS OF NOTHING

I’ve decided I don’t care if this is an urban legend or not.

“Oh my !!! Nice Kitty!!”

Put simply, Snowball is no ordinary cat, she measures 69 inches from nose to tail and weighs in at 87 lbs.

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