February 25, 2010

Styleguide: A new global visual language for the BBC's digital services

Our recommendation is that pages have a predominantly neutral colour palette with colour being provided by large and dramatic imagery. The highlight colour is used sparingly to create vibrancy and draw the eye to key areas of the page.

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Really nice web styleguide co-created by designers at the BBC and Neville Brody. I’d love to see the whole thing.

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Silly goose

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Geese at Lake Murray

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February 9, 2010

It's raining red lines

This is what a little bit of rain does to a San Diego commute.

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February 6, 2010

TurboTax discount for friends and family.

As a friend of mine you can get a special 2009 TurboTax® Online 20 percent discount!

The discount applies to all TurboTax Online federal and state products.

To get the 20% discount, please go to: http://turbotax.intuit.com/affiliate/intuitfriend. NOTE: The Friends & Family offer can only be accessed from this link and works only for people who haven’t yet started a 2009 TurboTax return. The offer is good through Oct. 15, 2010.

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January 27, 2010

Book Sharing Bankrupting Publishing Industry!

pirate-librarians.jpgLibrarians are the worst sort of pirates. Eric Hellman has a wry look at how Offline Book “Lending” Costs U.S. Publishers Nearly $1 Trillion
To get to the bottom of this story, Go To Hellman has dispatched its Senior Piracy Analyst (me) to Boston, where a mass meeting of alleged book traffickers is to take place. Over 10,000 are expected at the “ALA Midwinter” event. Even at the Amtrak station in New York City this morning, at the very the heart of the US publishing industry, book trafficking culture was evident, with many travelers brazenly displaying the totebags used to transport printed contraband.

As soon as I got off the train, I was surrounded by even more of this crowd. Calling themselves “Librarians”, they talk about promoting literacy, education, culture and economic development, which are, of course, code words for the use and dispersal of intellectual property. They readily admit to their activities, and rationalize them because they’re perfectly legal in the US, at least for now.

For a more serious look at library economics, I suggest Hellman’s post Why Libraries Exist where he cites a study comparing circulating libraries and video rental stores The study included the effects of transaction costs, production costs and the different values of owning and sharing, and found that library-like sharing benefits both publishers and consumers when the transaction cost of sharing is less then the marginal production cost:

1) more books will be read;
2) consumers will pay a lower price per reading;
3) the sellers will make a higher profit; and,
4) consumers will be better off.

See also: Confessions of a Book Pirate.
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Guestblogger Jessamyn West is a moderator at MetaFilter and a library technologist in Central Vermont who blogs at librarian.net

Librarians as book pirates, the worst sort. Funny, and scary.

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Santa Fe Summit Sunsets

I take so many of these photos I’ve decided to create a post/album for regular updates.

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January 25, 2010

Oops! International Keyboard Trap

Oops! This took a bit of trial and error to undo. I was just trying to add the Vietnamese alphabet to my keyboard so I could spell Pho correctly with that squiggly accent over the “o”.

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