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2007 November | Web Directions

Archive for November, 2007

Email Standards Project launches

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• November 28th, 2007

The Email Standards Project is a great advocacy and support initiative from the Campaign Monitor crew. Launched today, it aims to work with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. It really is hard to believe that it's been 10 ...

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New blog at the Powerhouse Museum

• In: Blog
• By: maxine
• November 27th, 2007

Just launched is a new blog at Australia's own Powerhouse Museum - Photo of the Day, showcasing some of the incredible photography created on a day by day basis by the museum's photographers. Here you will see photography that goes far beyond that which simply documents museum's collection, or ...

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Web Directions in Desktop Magazine

• In: Uncategorized
• By: john
• November 27th, 2007

During Web Directions South, Managing Editor of SitePoint, and long time Web Directions supporter Matt Magain interviews me about the conference, its goals, and so on, for Desktop Magazine. If you don't have access to the magazine (issue 234!) then you can read it online now, thanks to ...

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The Future of Email Design

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• November 22nd, 2007

Yeah look, I can be irked by an HTML email as much as the next person, but step outside the rarefied atmosphere we all live and breathe for a moment and talk to some friends who work in just about any other sector and you'll understand why they just aren't ...

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Why wikipedia does not run ads

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• November 22nd, 2007

I'm kind of guessing that all of you who have looked up anything on Wikipedia in the last 24hrs will have seen the link to Why Wikipedia Does Not Run Ads. Check it out if not. It has some really strong arguments about how destructive the injection of cash could ...

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Ghost Town - another reason to check out Perth’s ByteMe! festival

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• November 21st, 2007

Web Directions attendee Kate Raynes-Goldie has started a pervasive gaming company over in Perth - Giant Dice. Their first Perth venture, a mobile locative game called Ghost Town, will be held from December 2-9, as part of the ByteMe! Festival of digital content. Mobile locative games are an ...

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Cricket action via twitter

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• November 20th, 2007

OK, let me preface this by saying that my care factor for cricket per se is barely measurable on on the non quantum level. What does interest me though is people's obsessive fascination with the game. An obsessive fascination that leads to this fine bit of work by Myles Eftos, an ...

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Off to Perth again

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• November 12th, 2007

Isn't it funny how you will have never been to a particular city in your life, and then you find yourself going there twice in just a few months? I had a great time checking out Perth and Margaret River back in August when the good people from Western Australian ...

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Relive Mark Pesce’s Mob Rules at Youtube

• In: Uncategorized
• By: maxine
• November 1st, 2007

Mark Pesce's closing keynote, Mob Rules, was definitely one of the high points of Web Directions South this year. Most of you have probably had a look at the transcript, and maybe even listened to the MP3. But what's really great is that Mark has gone to the ...

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