Blog for December 2011

XXX

BBC reports the controversial .xxx domain name goes on sale 16:00 GMT, as "legal efforts continue to scupper it." Ten points for the use of the word "scupper".

Type Kerning Game

Awesome! My type-aholic internal designer just spent my lunch hour kerning away.

10,000,000,000

This past weekend, the Android Market exceeded 10 billion app downloads. To celebrate, Google has a new set of apps available for only 10 cents each. A single dime.

ProCATinator

It's funny cat videos put to music... the internet in its purest form.

Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Time

Discovery Magazine teaches us things we already "know", like that fact that we all live it the past and that a lifespan is a billion and a half heartbeats. The more you know.

Copycats

Matt Gemmell writes about trend of copycats and examines why its done. I particularly like how he looks at what "innovation" actually means in the industry.

Most Popular Hashtags In 2011

Via Twitter's year in review, its the hottest topics of the past year, 140 characters at a time.

Cello Wars

Seth Godin on the Erosion of Old Media

As a result of these three factors, there's a huge sucking sound, and that's the erosion of mass as part of the media model. Fewer people buying movie tickets and hardcover books, more people engaging in free media.

Seth has a post up about how he sees the old media world - the one where everyone pays for everything and a select few companies that don't really do anything ride along and make money - crumbling as new media takes over.

24 Ways

The seventh annual advent calendar of web design and development articles and tutorials.