The Handmade Diary
OK, so I’ve got a stationary, notebook, pen fetish. If i stopped buying now, I wouldn’t ever need another. My justification is the perpetual fight against clutter and time… It’s great to read about a fellow sufferer…
John, "…having unhappily put up with an unwieldy multitude of diaries, address
books and notepads for years, Mr. Berendt caught the Gutenberg spirit
three years ago and indulged in a little obsessive-compulsive print
project of his own. He printed up all the letters and numbers he would
need to spell out the months and days of the week (no need for K, X, Q
or Z) and sent them to a company that makes rubber stamps to order."
A lovely story from the NYTimes…
Cool Skype Phones…
One of these for Christmas please… Have been hunting for a Skype phone that supports Mac and these look great.
The Elements Of Typographic Style Applied to the Web
Worth a read… a classic applied to the Web. Richard describes it as follows:
Robert Bringhurst’s book The Elements of Typographic Style is on many a designer’s bookshelf and is considered to be a classic in the field. Indeed the renowned typographer Hermann Zapf proclaims the book to be
a must for everybody in the graphic arts, and especially for our new friends entering the field.In order to allay some of the myths surrounding typography on the web, I have structured this website to step through Bringhurst’s working principles, explaining how to accomplish each using techniques available in HTML and CSS. The future is considered with coverage of CSS3, and practicality is ever present with workarounds, alternatives and compromises for less able browsers.
Got Puggle…
Thanks to Stowe for The top ten “buzz words” to be added to the T9 dictionary (a predictive text input dictionary for users to tap into when texting on their mobile phones):
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Lifehack – a tool or technique that makes some aspect of one’s life easier or more efficient
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Mashup – new information created by combining data from two different sources
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Placeshift – to redirect a TV signal so the viewer can watch a show on a device other than his or her television
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Playlistism – judging a person based on what songs are on the playlist of his or her digital music player
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Podjack – to plug the cord of one’s digital music player into the jack of another person’s player to hear what the person is listening to
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Puggle – a dog bred from a pug and a beagle
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Sideload – to transfer music or other content to a cell phone using the cell phone provider’s network
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Vlog – a blog that contains mostly video content
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Vodcast – a video podcast
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Ubersexual – a heterosexual man who is masculine, confident, compassionate and stylish
Into The Public Eye…
Transparency is always the best practice in any crisis and it seem that CBS is getting more transparent. Launched back in September and just spotted by me (sigh!) is CBS PublicEye blog– it shines a light on what goes on inside the CBS newsroom. You can take a peek inside an editorial meeting, see how the evening line-up is determined, or, follow a ‘day in the life’of a Whitehouse story.
Ok – so this is more about PR and education than it is transparency, but it is really interesting and worth a look.
