Daniel Terdiman has written a piece at CNET News.com about John Knoll being nominated for an Academy Award. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Exploding light bulbs, frozen smoke, free ornate shapes, free type tips, and more pixel wisdom from Bert Monroy — your plate is full! (posted by Jennifer Apple)

The search marketing industry group sees 2007 as a year of growth and stabilization.

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the Web: End Of Results Penalty?; H5 or strong tags?; Google Quality Score and more.

This is pretty cool. ?IBM.com is running a headline banner for a podcast from Lotusphere that I did last week! ?The support IBM is putting behind Lotus these days is incredible. ?You can also listen to the other two podcasts I did last week,, one with Chris Miller , and one with LotusUserGroup.org.

I come across a *TON* of really useful open source software each and every day of my life, much of which I never tell anybody about (at least from a more widespread blog entry perspective) because -- well, to be...

I just saw a review from Ross Dargan on the Framework Design Guidelines … He lists his favorite quote… I am glad you like the "color" in the book Ross! Favourite Quote: Brad Abrams, page 134. Why did we decide to use "raised" rather than "fired?" Well, we certainly have some prior art on our side on this one, but we also felt like fire was too negative a term. After all, you fire a gun or you fire an employee. Raise sounds more peaceful. What is your favorite quote? Read More......(read more)

... I think you mean "CP 1252" or Microsoft Latin 1. This character set is often referred to as "ANSI" (including in a lot of MS documentation) but that's a

There was a question on one of the internal aliases today about the difference between unit tests and acceptance tests. I responded with my take on it. After some consideration, I decided to share this with the world as well. Of course, I have edited this a tiny bit to make sense by itself, and not in the context of a long email thread. Enjoy. “How are unit tests different from acceptance tests?” My unit tests each test one behavior of one class. There are lots and lots of them, grouped into fixtures by class. Acceptance tests, I prefer to have written by the customer or customer proxy, but it is often the testers who write them. My acceptance tests, when I write them (yes developers can help testers and customers by writing these too) are a...(read more)

Post about how marketing advice is often full of self serving lies.

List of a few newer SEO and marketing blogs I read.

If you sell high end services being seen as an expert in context is much more important than ranking in the search results.

Google claims to have killed off GoogleBombing, but will SEOs now GoogleBomb competitors to knock them out of the search results?

... No. ... They *all* should. ... Yes, a file isn't XML if it isn't well-formed, and it isn't well-formed if there are character encoding problems. Note,

Hi all, in your experience is it common for the encoding declaration to be used wrongly. I've been working with a lot of 'UTF-8' XML and XHTML files recently

If, like me, you're a subscriber to Darwin, Dawkins et al, then you probably assume that there's only one purpose for your existence: to reproduce. With that in mind, when you choose a programming language for a task, you shouldn't...

... Not that I'm likely to come (I'm in Toronto), but I am curious - does the "newest version of RoboHelp and FrameMaker" mean RoboHelp 6 and FrameMaker 7.2 or

A feature I really miss in CodePlex wiki is the ability to embed a video. It is possible to link to a video or upload one, but there's no wiki markup for an embedded player like what you see in Channel9 or YouTube Help us pass the bill in the CodePlex senate by voting for this item in their Issue Tracker: http://www.codeplex.com/CodePlex/WorkItem/View.aspx?WorkItemId=7079 Thanks! Read More......(read more)

May not be much of a title, but at least it speaks the truth. What actually is Wikipedia's Conflict of Interest guideline for professional writers? - O'Reilly XML Blog But it is interesting that at least on the face of...

After eight years of development, the World Wide Web Consortium announced this week that the XML query language, XQuery 1.0 has reached official Recommendation status.