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23 April 2007 - Comic Abstraction: Image Breaking, Image Making, from Scout Report
18 April 2007 - A Fresh Start for the Internet; Stanford University researchers aren't just dreaming of a new Internet: they're building it, by Rachel Ross, Technology Review, 19 Mar 2007
16 April 2007 - and I forgot to do them on the 16th
02-09 April 2007 - we were too involved in databases to do starters
28 March 2007 - The Promise of Personal Supercomputers: What will it take to put thousands of microprocessors in cell phones and laptops? By Kate Greene, in Technology Review, 23 Feb 2007.
26 March 2007 - FreeMind - free mind mapping software, from FreePint. A tool that might help you see connections you didn't know existed.
21 March 2007 - Famous Curves Index, from The Scout Report
19 March 2007 - Sociology at Microsoft: The software giant wants to better understand how people interact on the Internet, by Kate Greene, Technology Review, 09 Mar 2007.
07 March 2007 - New Advice: Don't Sit Up Straight, by Sara Goudarzi, LiveScience, 28 Nov 2006 (from LII). In case someone is always telling you to sit up and fly right.
05 March 2007 - Social Bookmarking Tools, A General Review, by Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott, D-Lib Magazine, April 2005 (from Current Cites). When John Weis introduced deli.cio.us to us as a starter, it prompted some looking back at scholarly articles on the topic.
28 February 2007 - RSS: Less hype, more action, by Roddy MacLeod, FreePint, 17 Jun 2004
26 February 2007 - Information politics: The story of an emerging metadata standard by Joan Starr, FirstMonday, July 2003
21 February 2007 - R.I.P. WYSIWYG, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 10 Oct 2005. Do you agree with him?
19 February 2007 - Hypertext Links: Whither Thou Goest, and Why by Claire Harrison, FirstMonday, October 2002
14 February 2007 - Productivity and Screen Size, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 23 Oct 2006
12 February 2007 - Free HTML Form Builder - Create Forms, Surveys and Invitations. From ScoutReport
07 February 2007 - As you think about designing your web sites, you might consider color. Inf@Vis, 16 Oct 2006.

Cynthia Brewer, of the Penn State University, proposed in 1994 some interesting guidelines on the use of colour in cartography and visualisation that lead to a set of colour schemes related to the classification of data that can be very useful when chosing the appropriate colour palette for our application.

05 February 2007 - As you think about designing your web sites, you might consider what kinds of design or topics seem to be most useful. Alexa Traffic Rankings, a listing of all sites on the Web, sorted by traffic... You can review sites by country (the most popular sites among users in the country, not sites hosted in the country), language, or subject. From FreePint, 04 Jan 2007.
31 January 2007 - Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 2005, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 03 Oct 2005. Not much has changed
29 January 2007 - 100 Million Websites, Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox, 11 Nov 2006.
24 January 2007 - Visual Trace, a tool seen originally in FreePint.
22 January 2007 - Security Insight - Google Desktop - yet another security frightener, by C.J. Kelly in Techworld.com, 28 December 2006 - originally seen in SearchEngineWatch.
17 January 2007 - Computers Decision Guide, by ConsumerReports.org - originally seen in Librarians Index to the Internet
10 January 2007 - Getting started with "Getting Things Done", Jan Verbogen in FreePint, 16 Jun 2005