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The Joseph Epstein media diet.
Cool — Jon Longnecker praises Engaging.net’s Nearby Entries in the first episode (at about 4:10) of their “Kick Awesome Show”!
I’m loving inertial scrolling on my MacBook Pro. Thanks, Apple.
Another excellent piece by Andy Rutledge, an admonition/checklist for being a professional designer/developer.
Both the BBC and Fox news web sites have recently been redesigned, with the BBC losing its looks and Fox getting neat and serious.
jQuery diagramming with jsPlumb — cool.
Another wonderful blog post by Walter Russell Mead, this time hoping that the blogosphere find a not-so-distant mirror in 18th-century London.
Google argues that its mobile YouTube site is better than its YouTube iPhone app.
Jakob Nielsen tests reading usability on the iPad and Kindle and reports that they’re almost as good as reading on paper. People didn’t like reading on PCs — it reminded them of work.
ducate your customers, they say, but Engaging.net had little to teach the very smart and knowledgeable Adam Engst, co-founder of the venerable Macintosh newsletter TidBITS, publisher of Take Control Ebooks, who contacted Engaging to help redeploy the takecontrolbooks.com web site using the ExpressionEngine content management system.
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Takecontrolbooks.com had grown organically on the powerful Web Crossing platform, but Web Crossing is not really a CMS, and posting new books to the growing Take Control catalog had become an increasingly labyrinthine ordeal. Adam wanted a setup that would make the process painless.
No visual redesign was involved; in fact, visitors to the new site will be hard-pressed to notice that a completely new engine now powers their treasure trove of Macintosh knowledge. Instead, what they’ll hopefully see is more ebooks as the TidBITS mavens spend less time updating the site and more of it, to paraphrase the site’s homepage, helping leading experts provide us with the answers we need now.
See their brief take on the switchover at “Take Control Site Now Running on ExpressionEngine”.
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