This article takes a critical look at the new BloggingZoom redesign. If you were here for the transition, you probably know why—the new design is quite shocking. BloggingZoom recently claimed that it's a major contender in the social news arena, poised to overtake Digg in fact. They have a long way to go but if that's g

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This article discusses the current mass exodus of our local information into the so-called data cloud. Many of us don't even realize it's happening. With all the enticing benefits of the tools in the cloud, the move seems inevitible. But who should we trust? Should we even make the move into the cloud or keep our data to ours

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I realised that day by day I’m reading newspapers less and less. I get all my news on the net. I have no inclination to go out and by a newspaper that costs RM 1.20. That’s pretty high expense for information that is worthless the next day. What’s m

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Selling web design for the past seven years has given me the opportunity to hear every objection imaginable. Some are practical—"The price is too high". Some are emotional—"We don't want to hurt our other designer's feelings". But they all add up to a big NO. The strategy I've developed through this process, however, is not designed to

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Digg is a great concept. In my opinion, it has made the single greatest contribution to the awareness of the difference between traditional media and the web. Because of Digg, we are now able to comment and vote on just about everything.

For these things, Digg, I thank you. You have made the task of spreading the good news of the web much

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I've been a fan of the Flock browser for quite awhile now. But when version 1.0 was release on November 5th, I put off the upgrade. I've never been good about paying attention to upgrade dialog boxes. Last week I finally dove in. I have to say that my expectations have been exceeded. In case you've never used Flock, it's a fairly new brow

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In the spring 2005 I decided that having a talk worthy website is a critical advantage for an independent web designer. That realization prompted me to build the latest iteration of Liquid Design Media—the web site for my design studio. All the top search engine marketing and usability experts would disagree with almost every decision I made

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Every week I spend hours reading and commenting on new media and design blogs. I run across so much good information that it's impossible to write one post for each great article I discover. So I've decided it's time to start making a weekly list of my favorite blog posts. Every Friday, I'll be publishing my "Five for Friday"—five excep

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I admit I've committed just about every crime against web design on this list. That's probably why it flowed so smoothly from my mind. They are all easily avoidable sins that, if transgressed, will cost a web designer big. So if you want to avoid humiliating yourself in front of clients and burning unnecessary midnight oil, take heed. It wi

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For a clean, impressive looking button set that doesn't take up a bunch of design time, glass buttons are the way to go. And slapping together cool glass buttons like the ones on apple.com is extremely simple in Photoshop. I've been using this process for several years now and I know web designers will find it helpful. It's

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By now it's no secret that advertising "five reasons why..."in a blog post title is an effective technique for enticing clickthroughs. Advice pointing to this tactic is rampant in the blogosphere and, I have to admit, I've used the technique myself a time or two (not counting this post). But the technique has transformed from a cool littl

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I'm limiting the 2008 prediction articles this week to one (a humorous bit from Dot Sauce). The daily influx of these articles is waning so I had to throw one more in before they disappear altogether. I have to point to Web Worker Daily for the most interesting article this week. Their "6 Secrets to Running a Virtual Company" is a fascinat

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Whether we like it or not, people are still printing information from the web. For years now the big question for newsletters, newspapers, and magazines has been, how do we get our printed product on the web? But as these mediums have gradually adapted to become more webcentric, the opposite question is becoming more appropriat

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With YFDirect/NetBlue's shady marketing tactics so easily discoverable, why did Digg, and especially Yahoo, allow these ads to run? Even if yourgiftpro wasn't so notorious, the claim of the banner that you are the 999,999th visitor is so obviously fraudulent, it's laughable. It's Yahoo! and Digg's responsibility to protect visitors from

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How do you deal with a good client who wants you to do something unethical? If it hasn't already happened to you, count on it at some point. And when it does happen you will see that it can be one of the most nerve racking experiences. The best thing you can do to weather the storm is plan ahead. Here's a list of pointers for ethics in web

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This week boasts a surprising number of great blog articles despite an expected lull over the Christmas holiday. Several of my favorite bloggers took the whole week off but a few never skipped a beat. In the next few days we will be barraged with "best of 2007" TV shows and magazine articles so I thought it appropriate to include at least o

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Webkit recently posted an article their blog Surfin' Safari describing a new set of CSS functions currently in the works. The purpose of these new functions is to allow animation using simple CSS attributes. Vitamin's comment about the venture was "Now I don't know why you'd want to, but hey, you can". I couldn't disagree more.

How

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