Web Directions - Part 22

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State of the web survey closes today

• By: John
• December 20, 2008

Today’s your last chance to do the first “State of the web” survey for web designers and developers. If you can find a few minutes to take the anonymous survey about web design and development practices, it will definitely help gain a better understanding about current best practice in … Read more »

Adrian Holovaty featured in the Chicago Tribune

• By: John
• December 17, 2008

While these days Chicago might have an even bigger “local boy makes good” story than Adrian Holovaty, I’m happy to say that I consider Adrian one of the most incentive, and nicest people doing stuff on the web. We’ve had the great privilege to have him speak at both … Read more »

Cartoon characters and pornography

• By: John
• December 17, 2008

Last week, I drafted an article on a NSW Supreme Court decision, finding a man guilty of possessing child pornography, in the form of a cartoon depicting various members of the Simpsons family in sexual acts. But I didn’t publish it. I censored myself, because frankly in the current climate, … Read more »

Job — Online Director at GetUp

• By: John
• December 17, 2008

A job that will appeal to quite a few of our readers, Online Director at GetUp, just popped up at our jobs board.

We are looking for a dynamic, self-​​motivated individual to direct the overall growth and strategic direction of GetUp’s online presence.

As the leader of our online … Read more »

Dan Saffer on touchscreen desktops

• By: John
• December 17, 2008

Via the ever excellent core77, a great place to keep up with design trends and events beyond the web, Dan Saffer who’ll be doing both a presentation and workshop at Web Directions North talks about whether “pure” touchscreen systems really are a great interface for desktop … Read more »

State of the Web Survey — a few days to go

• By: John
• December 16, 2008

There’s still a few days to go to complete our State of the Web Survey — along with the well over 1,000 people who’ve done so so far.

If you’ve not done so, please think about finding the time — it should only take a few minutes.

And remember, we’ll be … Read more »

Google Chrome exits beta

• By: John
• December 12, 2008

In what might be some sort of record for Google, Chrome, their webkit based browser, has gone 1.0 today.

In our survey of web developers and designers, we asked what browsers people use, and what they test for, and we’ll be interested to see whether early adopter web types are … Read more »

Donate to the W3C’s Validator project

• By: John
• December 12, 2008

OK folks,

you’ve used them many many times, so now’s your chance to contribute to the W3C’s validator project to help keep these vitally important tools for us web people going strong.

Print and Web Designer/​Develop Job at IMMEDIA!

• By: John
• December 11, 2008

With our Jobs site up and running, we don’t post too many job ads here on the blog, but from time to time we want to draw attention to ones that turn up.

IMMEDIA!, legendary in the Australian music scene, is looking for someone to replace their long standing, and … Read more »

Australian Bureau of Statistics new creative commons license

• By: John
• December 11, 2008

In what is excellent news (via the Open Knowledge Foundation), and hopefully a model for other government agencies in Australia, the ABS has just announced that their soon to be released site update will be licensed under the liberal Create Commons Attribution 2.5 Australia Licence.

Here’s hoping that we’ll … Read more »

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