Janita of Seishido, our little brush angel that never quits, has just delivered her latest preview package of free Photoshop brushes for your downloading pleasure. Once again Janita offers up some excellent swirls and images to use in our design work. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Canon has announced two new entry-level PowerShot A-Series models, the 7.1 megapixel PowerShot A550 digital camera and the 5.0 megapixel PowerShot A460 digital cameras. Both cameras will be available in stores mid-February and will carry estimated selling prices of $199.99 and $149.99, respectively. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Well here's a digital photography help book that you can actually read in a short period of time, which is a huge relief. So many Photoshop books these days are enormously long and seem impossible to get through. Color Management In Digital Photography by Brad Hinkel is just over 100 pages long, and it's all good stuff, with most of it based on classes and workshops the author has given to students of digital photography. (posted by Jennifer Apple)

A revised beta build of Bridge CS3, some tips on the new Camera Importer in Bridge CS3, some neat Photoshop tricks from Bert Monroy, and the most amazing touch screen ever. Enjoy! (posted by Jennifer Apple)

Best practices for search engine optimization are constantly evolving, and are starting to look more like conventional business plans.

Data from Coremetrics Web analytics informs virtually all of the site's search marketing efforts.

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the Web: Redesign Top 10 Do's Don'ts; How Much Text Is Needed?; Will Google Penalize You for Linking to Non-related Sites? and more.

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

A new release of adCenter is expected in the next 2 months, with many of the new features resulting from testing and customer feedback collected through adLabs.

B-to-B advertisers often pay high click costs to reach a very small and very specific group of potential buyers. More than anyone, they need to be sure the right people are clicking on their ads.

Scott Raymond, author of Ajax on Rails, gives us a comprehensive look at what's new in one of the fundamental Javascript libraries, Prototype.

I had the pleasure of being interviewed today by Jess Stratton of LotusUserGroup.Org...
"Alan has a very long job title, such that I needed to read it off his card. In the short version, he's a "Lotus evangelist". Find out what Lotus Connections and Second Life have in common, and what Alan's role is in the process. Alan also tells us about his first Lotusphere, in which he actually wasn't supposed to be there. Sneaky Alan!"

2 Minutes With... Lotus

also try and listed to 2 Minutes With... The Gurus ?and ?2 Minutes With...Our Members

Yesterday Chris Miller literally cornered me in a hallway at Lotusphere, where we sat down for a live interview to talk about the new Lotus Connections. This podcast runs 18:15 minutes for a file size of 13.2 MB
http://www.idonotes.com/IdoNotes/IdoNotes.nsf/dx/01232007115605PMCMI8YN.htm

Thank you Eric. Unfortunately I can't provide any recommendation as yet. I made those observations because I'm in the business of developing such systems

From the Official Blog of the Open Document Foundation. {Speaking I suppose to Microsoft:] I have a counter offer that ISO/IEC might consider; Give us the keys to those legacy binaries and the documentation for the new MSXML InfoSet binaries...

The most common penalty related to websites is that they lack quality to such an extent that it is easy to detect them as being of low information quality.

If you like MySpace, you may have some interest in what Lotus has on tap for corporate customers.

I got accepted to Amazon's Clickriver beta today.

Jonathan Leger tomorrow will be hosting a chat with me on his site at 3pm Eastern and noon Pacific time.