Jeffrey Zeldman's Blog, page 110
February 28, 2010
February 27, 2010
Betting on the web
Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the "war" between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that provide best-of-breed experiences on lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the web:
It boils down to control. I've written several times that I believe Apple controls the entire source code to iPhone OS. (No one has disputed that.) There's no bug Apple can't try to fix on their own. No performance problem...
The First Time
A friend's young son had just used the toilet and wiped himself for the first time.
She congratulated him on being a big boy.
To which he replied:
"Mother. Surely you don't expect me to do this for the rest of my life."
February 26, 2010
Doctorow on Pricing
In Publishers Weekly, blogger, novelist, and bon vivant Cory Doctorow discusses price discrimination("the idea that you make more money by segmenting your customers based on how much they're willing to spend") and demand elasticity ("the straightforward idea that new customers will come into your shop if you lower prices") and the roles played by hardcover and paperback, Kindle and iPad, Amazon and publishers in the future of book publishing.
February 25, 2010
You cannot copyright a Tweet
Contrary to popular belief and Twitter's terms of service, you cannot copyright a Tweet. Under US law, copyright is granted on publication to "original works of authorship" finalized in "fixed forms of expression" but this does not extend to names, titles, or short phrases (PDF).
As messages sent via Twitter cannot be longer than 140 characters, they cannot be copyrighted. However original, witty, or profound they may be, nothing more than good manners protects your original...
February 24, 2010
Pixen: Bitmap Graphics in Style
via opensword.org
Pixen is an innovative graphics editor for the Mac. It's designed from top to bottom for pixel artists—people who make low-resolution raster art like the sprites you see in old video games. But it's great for artists of all arenas: Pixen is like a very powerful MSPaint or a simpler, more agile Photoshop. And best of all, it's Free!
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David Berlow Type Specimens
A collection of David Berlow's prolific typographic work as co-founder of Font Bureau is showcased in this impressive booklet, a celebration of him receiving the Society of Typographic Aficionados (SoTA) Typography Award in 2007. Specimen pages show styles of each family for easy comparison of weight, width, copyfit and aesthetic.
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Tumblr v. Posterous
Business Insider: Why Tumblr Is Kicking Posterous's Ass
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