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Darren Rowse has a post up on the hopefully experimental change on the Adsense units. Where you previously seen Ads by Gooogle text, you now get a Google logo instead of “Gooogle”, or a G logo to the right.
I don’t like it, especially not the white image on the ads background that is suggested at the leaderboard ad. See the Problogger post for more.
Originally posted on December 12, 2006 @ 2:20 am
Paul Scrivens has a post up on deadlines and how they apparently aren’t honored any more. I don’t know about that, if I’ve got a client I certainly try to keep to my deadlines since I feel ashamed if I don’t, but OK, Scrivs points to his surroundings so I’m sure he knows what he’s talking about.
Maybe you are at a job and the current client doesn’t fit with how you work because you don’t do deadlines. Deadlines are too restrictive and hinder the creative process right?
Is that you, dear reader? Do you feel deadlines keep you down, and make sure you won’t excel yourself this time either, just because you’re out of time? Well, in my book that means you either miscalculated when giving your client (which could be yourself as many of us are self-employed) the deadline in question, or you took a wrong turn in the design process. It’s a skill itself to know how long things are going to take, and then to actually stick with the plan you made.
And it’s not something that hinders the creative process. Done right, you’ll see that the actual creative work you do is something that precedes the actual construction process. Doing your own blog design or whatever can slide forever if you just start fiddling about, but if you sit down and make a solid development plan for yourself you’ll soon find that when it comes to actually making the actual design most of the work is already done.
Sure, there are turns, it is a process, but if they’re sharp and unpredictable then you didn’t do it right in the first place.
Perhaps your designer surroundings need a bit of discipline and proper education in how to manage a project, Scrivs?
Originally posted on December 12, 2006 @ 10:51 am
Oh, I find these things hilarious. TechCrunch broke the story that Google has copied IE7 promo material from Yahoo. Could it be the same PR material from Microsoft to work with? Of course, but TechCrunch brings out the looking glass and finds a blurred out Y! logo.
Ouch.
So what does Matt Cutts say? Well, he says he’s sorry about the whole thing, but also brings out the whole Adsense ad boxes and Adwords mess, where Yahoo was definitely number two…
Funny reading. Start over at TechCrunch, see Matt Cutts’ blog post, and finally, the IE7 page by Google at the moment.
Originally posted on December 12, 2006 @ 5:00 pm
Shiny Shiny, the girl’s guide to gadgets, blogger Star C Foster died during the weekend from a tumor in her leg:
Our lovely, fantastic, funny and downright supreme Star C Foster died suddenly over the weekend. Star suffered a pulmonary embolism caused by a tumour in her leg. She will be greatly missed by all of us. She was with Shiny Shiny almost from the start, writing her excellent, sarcastic gadget stories every day without fail and generally being fantastic.
Shiny Shiny won’t be updating today because of this. Sad news indeed. I’ve been reading Shiny Shiny more or less regularly (despite not being a girl) so I’m sure I’ve come across her posts since she’s been with the blog for quite some time.
Head over to the Shiny Shiny post and pay your respects. Our condolences, of course.
Originally posted on December 11, 2006 @ 4:49 am
The so-called blog, Digg the Blog, lets me know that the social bookmarking service Digg turned two on December 7th. That’s quite an age in the Web 2.0 world, especially since the Digg guys actually counts from the day when “beta” left the logo. Gmail is still in beta, so it’s zero years old.
Hard to believe, but two years ago today, Kevin decided my code was bug- free enough to take down the beta sign and unleash Digg upon the world. It’s been a crazy and exciting time since then, and we owe it all to you – the loyal and passionate members of the Digg community.
However, when speaking of Digg in the very much digging blogosphere, you’re speaking of gaming. My good buddy Tony has a nice post on it up on Deep Jive Interests, talking about how diggers never will be paid by Digg, but still making money gaming it on behalf of other companies.
And another thing, Digg is two years old, but will it make it to three? I’m certain it will, but Kevin Rose & Co. won’t be the owners anymore. Who will buy it? My guess is Google.
Originally posted on December 8, 2006 @ 6:57 am