Category: Web
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Satellite imagery – Earth from outer space
Nice scrolly site from Polygraph.
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DNS and Email setup for yourself
Joe “begriffs” Nelson has published a nice post about how setting up and controlling your own DNS and Email servers retains a little chunk of internet for yourself.
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Apple’s new “favicon”
The Iconfactory has a write up about the new code required to display a nicely-rendered icon in Apple’s new pinned tabs feature in the Safari browser.
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Deakin’s content marketing play – this.
Deakin has released a new content marketing (or “brand journalism”) site — this. Interesting to see if it works. Will people visit a site that’s not a mainstream publication?
[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7mrOqvWkF4[/youtube]
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Doc Searls comments about ad-blocking
Doc Searls (an author of the Cluetrain manifesto) makes a comment about the rise of ad-blocking features in web-browsing applications.
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BBC’s approach to responsive design
The BBC web dev team explains the approach they used when redoing the BBC News site for a responsive design.
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Design machines
Travis Gertz’s essay on the “sameness” of the current crop of web design and solutions to help overcome it.
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New cluetrain clues
Can’t believe it’s been 16 years since the Cluetrain Manifesto was published. Anyway, here’s an update and refresh by the original authors.
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Evan Williams on online user metrics
Evan Williams wrote a thoughtful article about the problems of measuring influence and popularity with web analytics and other metrics.