As if the man (in blue) doesn’t have enough to do, he’s now remixed Carla Hackett’s wonderful “Cloud v Bird” cartoon featured on the cover of Scroll (and at Web Directions South about eveywhere). It’s also available at RedBubble should you feel the necessity to have this as part of your wardrobe. Love it.
Kevin Yank over at SitePoint has an in-depth interview with Douglas Crockford over at SitePoint. Conducted right after Douglas’s presentation at the conference, Kevin follows up on some of the key points in that presentation.
The (now officially) venerable A List Apart is now 10 years old. For old folks like me it seems like such a short period of time, and yet so long as well. Congratulations to Jeffrey Zeldman, and all whom over the years have contributed to the success of this wonderful publication.
Those who came to Web Directions left with something special – a brand new magazine for web professionals – Scroll. Designed by Veerle Pieters, with a fantastic name courtesy of Maxine Sherrin, and largely the fruit of incredibly hard work by Maxine, Scroll features in depth articles by leading web design, development, accessibility and IA […]
A quick note for visitors new and old, that Web Directions North will be launching next week. We are just finalizing speakers and workshops, so that when we launch, you’ll know exactly why you should be coming. This year, Web Directions North moves to Denver, Colorado, for a whole host of reasons (but don’t fear […]
Today’s Sun Herald reports that The State Library of New South Wales joins the PowerHouse Museum, along with institutions like the US Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institute in posting parts of their extensive photographic collections online at Flickr. Great work SLoNSW and Flickr!
Many in the web professions will be familiar with (and rightly so) Joe Clark. He spoke at the first conference we were associated with in 2004, and is well known as one of the earliest web accessibility experts, and author of the groundbreaking Building Accessible Websites. Joe has just released his latest book Organizing Our […]
Just quick note to say we now have over 50 reputable, legitimate jobs at jobs.webirections in just a few short weeks. There’s design, development, IA, and many more positions at the likes of the ABC, Atlassian, Gruden, Medicare, and many more. If you are looking for contractors part timers or full timers, then advertising is […]
Stephen Lead is putting together what I think might be one of the first “Ignite” events in Australia – Ignite GeoSpatial. While it’s not entirely web focussed, it’s not hard to see the importance of geo data for the web, and the web as a delivery platform for GeoSpatial applications. If you don’t know what […]
While the audience of Web Directions probably somewhat skews the sample, Mozilla are looking to get a better understanding of the use of Firefox around the world. So if you have a few minutes, please do head over to their survey. In fact, even if you don’t use Firefox they are still keen on your […]
There’s so much to come in the hours, days and weeks ahead, but just right now, a huge thanks to all who made Web Directions what it was. Amazing. We’ll have much more specific thanks coming soon, but for now, the sincerest gratitude from Maxine and me.
The winner of the McFarlane Prize, 2008, is Pro Plaster Products by Propeller Global. Billy Hughes at War for the Old Parliament House, by IceLab was highly commended by the judges. Congratulations to the team at Propeller, at IceLab, and all the finaists, and a huge thank you to the entrants.
It’s quiet on the blog, but Twitter, Flickr, the blogs and YouTube are are alive with comments, photos, video and more from the conference. Follow along if you couldn’t come!
I’m an optimist – it’s in my nature. Not a blithe one, but definitely my instinct is to not see the worst in a situation. Clearly so to is Douglas Rushkoff, author, public intellectual, and all round big thinker. Douglas has a long essay on the implications of the current financial system crisis, that is […]
The Jury for the prize has now drawn up the shortlist for this year’s prize. The standard of this year’s entries was without doubt the best yet, demonstrating that each year, the quality of Australia’s web industry’s output improves considerably. I’m sure Nigel would have been most pleased with that. This year’s shortlist (in alphabetical […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
