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Powagirrrls No. 20

Netdiver Magazine does a superb job of surfacing talent. Powagirrrls is their long-running series showcasing designing women. You could lose many hours here.

Meet women who rock the design industry.. with more than pink design!

See Netdiver Powagirrrls No. 20.

Opera loves my web font

And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o' the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding and SVG generation) to bring the joy and wonder of fast, optimized, semi-bulletproof web fonts to Safari, Firefox, Opera, Chrome, iPhone, and Apple's latest religious device.

Haven't checked IE7, IE8, IE9, or iPad yet; photos welcome. (Post on Flickr and link here.)

What I learned:

☛ Even if...

Letterhead Love: The Chop Shop

Letterhead Love: The Chop Shop.

Little blue hat tip: I'm Just Creative, an identity design blog by Graham Smith.

Of Google and Page Speed

Our visually and behaviorally rich sites are about to lose precious Google juice, WebSiteOptimization.com reports in a new piece titled Page Speed Factored into Google Search Rankings:

Google's addition of a page speed signal to its search rankings algorithm officially links performance with search engine marketing. The loading speed of a web page affects user psychology in a number of ways, and now it can effect its rankings as well.

This back-to-basics message catches us at ...

Opera hates my web font

So I've wanted to use a condensed, bold Franklin typeface for my site's headlines since, well, forever. So I bought Fontspring's fine Franklin Gothic FS Demi Condensed and licensed it for @font-face use for a mere $2.99, an incomparable value.

It looks great in Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, but not so nice in the latest version of Opera, where it resembles the inside-out test monkey in Cronenberg's "The Fly." (Okay, okay, it looks like a ransom note, but the monkey simile was...

The dog ate my bookmarks

It's been years (or is it weeks?) since something odd, implausible, and inexplicable happened to one or more of my Apple computers that doesn't happen to anyone else's. You know you want to hear this.

So yesterday morning I'm in my hotel, finishing some work on my laptop before leaving for the airport, when MobileMe alerts me that in order to sync the bookmarks on my laptop, it will need to delete some and add some. I click OK. A few seconds later, I have no bookmarks in...

Best AEA yet

An Event Apart Seattle, our first three-day show, was our best yet. Not only was every speaker engaging and every topic relevant, but there was a thematic unity between presentations as leading-edge topics came to the fore. What came out at AEA Seattle 2010 will be the best practices of 2012. Fortunately, this year's next four shows will feature many of the same speakers and topics.

Some highlights:

CSS3 media queries are the new hotness. They were explained and demonstrated to...

Courts Imperil Net Neutrality

In a ruling that could derail the Federal Communications Commission's attempt to craft net neutrality rules, a federal appeals court said Tuesday that the agency lacked authority to sanction Comcast for throttling peer-to-peer traffic.

… Broadband advocates who had urged the FCC to take action against Comcast condemned the appellate ruling, saying that it could prevent the commission from enacting any regulations that could affect how broadband is delivered.

"The consequences...

An Event Apart Seattle

An Event Apart Seattle 2010 features 13...

Should Publishers Attend SXSW?

In Should Publishers Attend SXSW?, Lorraine Shanley of Publishing Trends answers her own question this way:

Yes, because sxsw offers a chance to see options for the future—amazing gaming, interactive software, inventive marketing, creative content development and deployment. But as Will Schwalbe … said, "If publishers come to sxsw to create their own sessions track, they'll learn nothing. If they come to attend panels on subjects about which they know nothing, they'll learn...