Technology
- Standards: Do We Really Need Them? -- discusses the benefits of supporting open standards, and provides pointers to tools and technologies you can use in place of proprietary formats (via Seb's Open Research)
- The table of equivalents/replacements/analogs of Windows software in Linux (ibid.)
- Journal of Digital Information -- "Publishing papers on the management, presentation and uses of information in digital environments" (via Bloug)
- Do we code or not? -- A discussion on whether or not people who work with XHTML and CSS are really "coders" (via Digital Web)
- Using tables to present tabular data (ibid.)
- Implementing Collapsible Menus
- another experiment in navigation design with CSS (via paranoidfish)
- The year's lowlights and highlights in technology (via Tomalak's Realm)
- 'Robot Tarzan' helps forest work -- "A fearless mobile robot is helping scientists monitor environmental changes in forests"
- Radio boost for rural broadband -- "Rural broadband has been given a boost by the UK Government's decision to free up a key radio frequency."
Squishy stuff
- Why Implementations Fail: The Human Factor
- How to Build Your Business Through Building Yourself
- Web Of Misinformation -- Think about what you're reading online (via Digital Web)
- New Year's Resolutions vs. New Year's Goals
- Junk e-mail 'costs an hour a day'
- That's too much information (via Tomalak's Realm)
- Multitasking Overhead -- "Context switching demands more time and energy than you think" (free registration required to view)(via Managing Product Developoment, via Frank Patrick's Focused Performance Weblog)
- Business Management Tips -- little nuggets of advice
- Blogger's block, collapsing facets and the number 150 (via paranoidfish)
- Radical Simplicity: A Second Look, And Lessons Learned
Business and marketing
- How Much is That? -- The relative value of money over time (via Thoughts on Business)
- Search Engine Contextual Ads Gain Momentum (via MarketingWonk)
- Study Indicates Online Shoppers Spend More Time Buying, Less Shopping (ibid.)
- Creating and Using a Marketing Calendar Effectively
- Conquering the Fear of Authoring -- "Ten tips for motivating content contributors"