Long live the web

A call for continued open standards and neutrality

The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity—and even our liberty. Like democracy itself, it needs defending

Icons of the web scaled by popularity

Interessante e divertido: Nmap visualizes site popularity as scaled icons. Favicons, that is. They're that little icon that shows in your address bar or when you bookmark a site in your browser. If you're reading this on FlowingData, you should see a little red icon next to the URL. The larger the icon, the more popular the site is, based on Alexa traffic data. In whole, the image is a giant 37,440 by 37,440 pixels image. Google is 11,936 x 11,936 pixels. Facebook is 6,736 × 6,736 pixels. Yahoo is 6,544 × 6,544 pixels. (via FlowingData).

The web is dead

Conheça os finalistas do Anima Mundi Web

O maior festival de animação do mundo termina domingo, 26, mas ainda dá para votar no melhor da categoria Web. A lista dos 20 finalistas está liberada para voto popular. No destaque, Deu a louca no Português, uma sátira ao novo acordo ortográfico.

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Para pensar a composição

Fotos vão para o Flickr, vídeos ficam no You Tube, notas longas ganham espaço no blog, o Twitter destaca as curtas, o Delicious lista os bookmarks, e o Facebook puxa tudo e reorganiza. O publicador da web 2.0 é um agregador de várias fontes de conteúdo?

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Para melhorar a legibilidade

Antonio Carusone replicou em seu blog artigo que escreveu para a Smashing Magazine sobre como melhorar o design gráfico de um site. Vale a pena ler. Um dos pontos mais interessantes e repetidos à exaustão por esta pesquisadora desde o final dos anos 1990 é o número de toques que um texto deve ter na página para incomodar a leitura. Carusone defende 65 toques. Na primeira edição do Guia de Estilo Web (Senac/SP) indiquei entre 70 e 75 caracteres. O cálculo foi feito com base na metodologia do papa do design Robert Bringhurst.

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Quando a limitação faz criar

Excelente análise de Scott Dadich, diretor de criação da Wired, sobre como as limitações da página faz com que o designer não tenha limite na elaboração de um projeto gráfico e cita como exemplo o Google e o iPhone.

"At Wired, our design team sees this constraint as our daily bread. On every editorial page, we use words and pictures to overcome the particular restrictions of paper and ink: We can't animate the infographics (yet). We can't embed video or voice-over (yet). We can't add sound effects or music (yet). But for all that we can't do in this static medium, we find enlightenment and wonder in its possibilities. This is a belief most designers share. In fact, the worst thing a designer can hear is an offhand "Just do whatever you want." That's because designers understand the power of limits. Constraint offers an unparalleled opportunity for growth and innovation."

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Vamos de notas curtas?

Essa é a nova ordem no Wall Street Journal:

"At The Wall Street Journal, the new bosses’ campaign to change the paper’s style increased in intensity last week with a memo from the top editor, Robert Thomson, indicating that reporters there will be required to supply a corporate sibling, Dow Jones Newswires, more often, and with faster, clearer versions of their articles.

(...) What that means, according to people in The Journal’s newsroom, is that the first version of breaking news to go out on the wires should be just a headline and a couple of sentences, written in the simplest terms and sent out as soon as possible, rather than a fuller article written in the more complex language of the printed paper. "

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meu comentário: quer dizer que as notícias terão agora o formato do Twitter?

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Para explicar a crise

The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.

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The perfect CMS

A Smashing Magazine publica as 10 coisas a serem consideradas ao planejar um publicador de conteúdo. São elas: Core functionality, The editor, Managing assets, Search, Customization, User interaction, Roles and permissions, Versioning, Multiple website support, Multilingual support.

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Multimídia 2008

Regina McCombs, do Poynter Institute, listou os melhores projetos multimídia de 2008. Destaque para New York Times e Washington Post.

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/politics/2008-election-overview/
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/hard-times/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23781733
http://spokesmanreview.com/stormstories/
http://data.desmoinesregister.com/parkersburg/parkersburg.php
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/special/30621649.html
http://blogs.roanoke.com/ageofuncertainty/
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/talkingtothetaliban
http://www.freep.com/section/SPECIAL0101
http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/multimedia/interactive-features/
http://www.madison.com/wsj/media/archive/interactive.html
http://www.portfolio.com/interactive-features/2008/12/newsquiz_1212
http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/extras/manny_500_homeruns/
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=SPORTS0301
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/human-body/human-body.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/tv/time-warp/video/interactive/interactive.html
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/projects/2008/05/budget_hero/
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2008/11/19_challenged_ballots/
http://www.ted.com/index.php/pages/view/id/5
http://www.xdrtb.org/
http://www.cfr.org/publication/17088/crisis_guide.html
http://mediastorm.org/
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/people/1968/player.html
http://www.good.is/sections/video/video.php?tname=america-love-it-or-fix-it#/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/candidate-match-game.htm

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