Linking : Best posts on the web for January 2007
Thu, Feb 1st, 2007
I saved just under 1200 links to del.icio.us through January. To get some value out of that obsessive activity and save you some time what follows is a list of the best “posts” I discovered. Items are on this list because they use the blog post format in interesting ways, they represent a large amount of valuable work, they are exceptionally well written, they are about something I find really interesting or there is just some special quality about them that compels me to share them with you. Astrix denote the very best ones.
- * Daily Monster 75
- Stefan G Bucher, Wed Jan 31st. The 75th post in a wonderful series
of video posts showing the drawing of an animated monster. The best bit
is the readers contributions providing back story for the monsters. Participatory
TV at last. - The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines
- Read/Write Web, Mon Jan 29. A fantastically thorough look at Search
and the proliferation of niche search engines. - It Bothers Me That I Have To Go
- Don to Earth, Tues Jan 23. A post by a nonagenarian on leaving this world.
- Pad Thai for beginners
- Chez pim. Sun Jan 21. A very in-depth look at making Pad Thai, with photos.
- The cost of monoculture
- Gen Kanai weblog, Fri Jan 26. Expose of problem with development
of South Korean Net History, with discussion. - SecondLife: Revolutionary Virtual Market or Ponzi Scheme?
- Capitalism 2.0, Tue Jan 23. Strong Secondlife backlash post with very lengthy discussion.
- Bruce Osborn: Oyako – Portraying Japanese Generations
- Pingmag, Wed Jan 24. Collection of portraits of japanese adult
parent-child relationships. - How to isolate amniotic stem cells from the placenta, at home!
- Pimm – Partial immortalization, Tue Jan 23. Step by step guide
to do-it-yourself stem cell collection, with pictures. - On Space Art in Sebastopol
- Plastic Bag, Mon Jan 22. Account with images of creating art to
be viewed on google earth/maps. - Every ad in Times Square
- Ironic Sans, Mon Jan 22. A photo record of every advertisement currently
visible in Times Square, New York. - MonsterID as Gravatar Fallback
- Split brain, Sun Jan 21. Interesting implementation of automatic avatar/monster assignation.
- When Being a Verb is Not Enough
- PBS, Cringley, Fri Jan 19. Epic rant on Google’s impending takeover of the net.
- Reaction to the iPhone reveals how the electronics industry failed to beat the iPod
- Thomas fitzgerald, Wed Jan 17. Analysis of electronics industry and them not getting design.
- The Lonely Tree of Ténéré
- Damn Interesting. Wed Jan 17. Account of absurd demise of lone
300 year old Saharan tree. - Event-Driven Web Application Design
- Yahoo! User Interface Blog, Wed Jan 17. Excellent clear look at one aspect of current state of javascript application development.
- American Idol Myspace Hunt: Round #1
- Death by Camera, Wed Jan 17. Tracking down US Idol contestants via their Myspace profiles.
- Sunday Reader esp. Uniqlo clip.
- Wider Angle, Sun Jan 14. A great mashup post but mostly here for the link to the amazing Japanese robot dance routine.
- What Can We Do With Flickr?
- Flickr user cogdogblog, Oct 14 2006. Obsessive and a little silly use of flickr photo notes to illustrate the uses to which Flickr can be put.
- * The Astoria Notes
- Ironic Sans, Wed Jan 17. Scans of letters and great account of interactions with unhappy neighbour.
- * Wii Sports Experiment, Results!
- WiiNintendo, Mon Jan 15. Lengthy illustrated report on using the Wii for weight loss.
- * My Wild Million-Hit Ride on YouTube
- The tyee, Wed Jan 10. Account by “Spiders on Drugs” creator about what happens when your work is popular on Youtube.
- Styling form controls with CSS
- 456 Berea Street, Tue Jan 9. Huge amount of work illustration variation in CSS styled form elements across browsers.
- Custom DOM Attributes for Fun and Profit
- Unspace.Tue Jan 9 Well written examination of using attributes vs classes.
Older Posts discovered by me in Jan 2007 – cheating a little but I couldn’t let the rules prevent me sharing these great posts
- Internet 2007 Predictions
- Information Architects Japan, Dec 26 2006. Long post with images with 2007 net related predictions.
- The 50 loudest websites in 2006 and what made them successful
- Information Architects Japan, Dec 21 2006. Look at factors behind successful sites with neat visualisation charts.
- The Design Disease
- Noisy Decent Graphics, Dec 03, 2006. Self-analysis of how obsessive a designer can get with illustrations.
- * Welcome to the amazing world of pop-up books!
- PingMag, Nov 27 2006. Fantastic look at pop-up books with youtube hosted video to illustrate.
- Patterns – a photoset on Flickr
- Flickr User Ludd, Last Nov 25 2006. Not really a post but photoset of 70 patterns from public transport upholstory.
- Tailors Today: A Poster Showing Every Book I’ve Ever Read
- Tailors Today, Thur Oct 12, 2006. A tutorial on how to create a poster of every book you’ve ever read.
- Online Image Editors Compared
- Smiley Cat, Jul 28 2006. Don’t miss the data matrix comparing 10
different web based image editors. - Creative photos by Chema Madoz
- haha.nu, Jul 2nd 2006. A collection of very imaginative photos
by Chema Madoz. - * May I take your order?
- Rahoi, Mar 2 2006. Scans of mind-bendingly bizarre English on Chinese
menu. - How to Prototype a Game in Under 7 Days
- Gamasutra, Oct 26, 2005. Interviews and examination of high-speed
game design at Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center. - Microsoft 1978
- Coding Horror, Aug 15 2005. Where are they now? look at photograph of original M$ team.
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Angus- glad you enjoyed my article on South Korean. Thanks for the link!
From Gen Kanai on February 2nd, 2007 at 11:41 amHey, cool to be on that list. There were quite a few very interesting articles I didn’t knew, yet. Thanks.
From Andi on February 3rd, 2007 at 3:41 am