Posted on April 24, 2006 4:23 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | General | Web
Just as vultures can detect the faint scent of freshly dead meat from miles away, spammers can sniff out new channels through which they can spew their garbage. Creative people are coming up with innovative new ways to allow people to tap into the social computing space. We can rely on spammers to turn whatever they come up with into…
Posted on March 30, 2006 7:32 pm by Shel Holtz | Web
I still maintain the vast majority of Flash implementations on the web are awful. They take too long to load, they inhibit your ability to get to the information that brought you to the website in the first place, and they add nothing to the information the site conveys. But there are exceptions.
I ran across this elegant animation reading my…
Posted on March 20, 2006 9:23 am by Shel Holtz | General | Web
A picture is worth a thousand words, they say. Problem is, a picture can also take up a lot of space, particularly on a web page. Leave it to Edward Tufte to come up with a solution.
Nobody is better than Tufte at helping designers and communicators understand how to use graphics to convey data and information. His book, “The Visual Display of…
Posted on March 19, 2006 10:29 am by Shel Holtz | Technology | Web
OPML—Outline Processor Markup Language—has been around for a while now. I use Dave Winer’s OPML editor to create the outlines for For Immediate Release, although once I’ve finished the outline, I wind up copying it to a text editor so I can email it Neville; I don’t post it online for others to link to. My blogroll is available in OPML, but an attempt to link to it…
Posted on February 27, 2006 9:04 am by Shel Holtz | RSS | Technology | Web
The value of RSS and tags got a lot clearer and more exciting with today’s launch of Edgeio.
Edgeio, a project TechCrunch‘s Michael Arrington has had in the works for some time, represents what could be a disruptive model for classified advertising. (Note: The review of Edgeio on the TechCrunch blog is by Nik Cubrilovic.) For it to work, some considerable behavioral change…
Posted on February 3, 2006 9:52 am by Shel Holtz | Web
From Scoble’s blog I followed a link to Thomas Hawk’s Digital Connection and an entry about 30 Boxes, which enters public beta on Sunday. Om Malik has apprently claimed that 30 Boxes will do for web-based calendaring what Gmail did for web-based email. After seeing it, Hawk agreed: “Sure, as you’d expect you get all the ajaxy eye candy type stuff, but it was the built…
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