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Design anywhere digital culture NEWS // July 2002
Gio
Ponti portrait / a world of decorative modernism.
The
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit on Thursday in
an attempt to overturn key portions of a controversial 1998 copyright
law (DMCA).
On trial: Digital
copyright law by Declan McCullagh
Also please read Ben
Edelman study of Domains
Reregistered for Distribution of Unrelated Content.
Recommend reading professor Edward W. Felten FAQ pages
on SDMI (Secure Digital Music Initiative) challenge and
what happened.
*Basic Steganalysis Concepts*:
Steganography is the art of passing information in a manner that the
very existence of the message is unknown. The goal of steganography is
to avoid drawing suspicion to the transmission of a hidden message. If
suspicion is raised, then this goal is defeated. Steganalysis is the
art of discovering and rendering useless such covert messages.
Above definition provided to clarify the double-side implications
of watermarking to protect intellectual properties.
Patch
laced with a Trojan Horse? Read the latest M$ mischief. Microsoft
Makes An Offer You Can't Refuse by Richard F. Forno.
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ndle1: btw
don't miss reading all the potent links supplied in the article as well.
iDEA
Machine makes deconstruction flash collages rock and has now become RARE
Method.
Serious
PHP vuln reported by Thomas C Greene
Molly
Holzschlag's on Why Web Builders Must Move to XHTML an interview by Tim
Haight.
Tom
Nulens as a designer impresses me with his simplicity and precise
renderings.
Extreme
visual balance added to objects interaction delicacy - Julien
Moulin new site rocks!
Emotion
& Design: Attractive things work better by Donald Norman
“The usable but ugly critique of The Design of Everyday Things
has merit insofar as usable designs are not necessarily pleasurable ones...
The tensions between aesthetics and usability as well as those between
affect and cognition have long bothered me, but it has not been until
now that I have been able to make progress in bringing these areas together...
To be truly beautiful, wondrous, and pleasurable, the
product has to fulfill a useful function, work well, and be usable and
understandable. Good design means that beauty and usability are in balance.”
Creative
Behavior -> July interview with Simmetry Labs.
Nathan
Shedroff thoughts - is a vast array of communication design articles;
excellent The
Interactive Development Process!
Giulia
Balladore ::juniatwork:: 
vector
models done with flash are stunning! In the snapshot below - the face
is an actual graphic rendering not a picture!
Powaboys, Lomp.Illustration are
sharp and on top of their game - masterfull rendering and high fiber
creativity.
David
Bean is the founder of Deep End Media (and yes the trademark was bought
by the outre-Atlantic U.K. based agency). His parcours as a creative
director and designer is most interesting - his new site shows the no-nonsense
weight of years in the trade.
Looking
for open source content management system resources
and list?
Want
a high dose of inspiration? Meet Craig
Blanchette who plays numerous sports competitively and recreationaly
including hand cycling (current US Champion), elite wheelchair racing
(holds 21 world records) and as well likes to skateboard, rock climbing
and scuba dive... while being a double amputee since birth!
Ca
nous fait plaisir de vous voir! Don't understand check sockho a
cool site!
Keep
in mind that browser base viewing is *decompression* of JPEG - perhaps
this means lesser impact? JPEG
Patent Claim Sparks Concern by Joanna Glasner
Check also: JPEGs
are not free: Patent holder pursues IP grab by Andrew Orlowski
in London
Check also the W3C.org content.
Light
at the end of the tunnel? Last year I made a small coverage of the JPEG2000 new
algorithm and innovative compression device. The results I gathered from
some experiments on real heavy files were astounding. I've contacted
the group and will post their replies as soon as I hear from them.
When
you thought that things couldn't get worst: how about JPEGs being licensed
and having to pay royalties??? The latest player to attempt to strangle
the internet???
“Forgent has
the sole and exclusive right to use and license all the claims under
the '672 patent that implement JPEG in all "fields of use... We
wanted to ensure the investment community and the general public are
clear about the terms of our valuable JPEG data compression technology,
one of the many technologies we have in our patent portfolio... products
that use JPEG technology for licensing opportunities.”
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via TheHeadLemur
“Eighty
percent of success is showing up.” - Woody Allen. Want more quotes?
Found Quoteland to
be a nifty resource.
This
is a fab fonts site - check Gray
Graphics.
Now
what's between you and DMCA (Digital
Millenium Copyright Act)?
For a starter, how about learning that “one cannot put up a site
showing design work one has done for clients without clearing it with
all of the clients beforehand (in addition to the company one has worked
for)?”
Concern voiced by Sam Tomasello.
“The DMCA was signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1998.
It looks like a reasonable law, but some particular clauses are not very
well thought out and give content movers unacceptable control over the
market (even though they claim it's to protect the artist). Perhaps it
was deliberate. In any case, many have suffered already and a healthy
movement has developed against it.
If this concerns you, there are ways you can fight back. Anti-DMCA seems
to be a good start.”
Excerpt + links provided by Michael Bacarella.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation)
is very concerned with this law as well. DMCA reports:
Unintended
consequences - three years under the DMCA
Joint
Letter Opposing Copyright Office Position on DMCA
Declaration
of Alan Cox
To understand what is at stake with a real life scenario: Why
the DMCA must be repealed by Jay Sulzberger, who distributed this
pamphlet for months in front of the NYPL.
For
people who make websites:
Time management:
the pickle jar theory by Jeremy Wright.
Sasha's {
unit 8 } improved!
“The
Patriot Act already provides for a person's home to be searched without
that person being informed that a search was ever performed, or of any
surveillance devices that were implanted.”
Read the full article: US
planning to recruit one in 24 Americans as citizen spies by Ritt
Goldstein
Oh gosh when paranoia strikes there are some real bad
decisions taken and our civil freedom are threaten. Read the author whereabouts.
????
you might want to check the other news on the right side too... Microsoft
Linux provides all the power of the Linux Operating System with the
ease of use you've come to expect from Microsoft Products ????
How
to Tell Your Story in the Media by Ilise Benun; check her book Self
Promotion Online and companion site.
Probably
one of the first pixel animator drubbubu renews
itself again! Don't miss clicking on icons to *see* what happens. Lot's
of patient work there.
Boxes
and Arrows bringing architecture and design to the digital landscape.
A peer-written journal dedicated to discussing, improving and promoting
the work of this community, through the sharing of exemplary technique,
innovation and informed opinion.
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The Best Designs has
got a new interface. Hats of Angela for your great work!
Remember
the royalty_free vs patent debate concerning standards? Get a fresh view
of what's at stake now.
Standards
stalled over royalty disputes by Paul Festa.
Plexman
Photography truly shows how a pix is worth a thousand words.
Three
Ways to Improve External Search Engine Usability by Jeff Lash
Were-Here
forums site had a major server failure on July 4 - pls be patient as
they are rebuilding all the information.
Mondotrendy? A
powagirrrl illustrator with a solid hand on her world of expression.
...In
one of the first legal decisions to ban so-called deep linking, a Danish
court has ruled that a news site cannot provide hyperlinks to certain
Web pages without the permission of publishers... Xcuse me???
Court:
Hands off that hyperlink by Lisa M. Bowman
Check
the latest status on browsers use: Internet
Explorer 95.3, Mozilla 0.4 by Evan Hansen
Egomedia
has got an improved version = Ego7. Slick interface!
Do
you quilt? Perhaps you should. Digital Quilt a great idea for assembling
artwork.
A
graphic a day keeps the blues away - ingenious concept -> The Calendar
Project.
W3C is
starting a new discussion list, the
Web standards education and outreach forum, for Web standards evangelists,
authors, and others to discuss ways to improve the quality of web-standards
related books, publications, lectures and training courses.
Creative
Behavior - June issue is out - cool trick to enter the site. Also
the site is loading much faster since they have moved to new servers.
Read the new article I wrote - The
liner effect by Carole Guevin
eBay
buys PayPal by Drew Cullen
Do
you get spam? Do you wish you didn't?
The Design Center is helping sponsor a SPAM SURVEY conducted
by the Association of Apple Computer Users & Groups. The organization
is chartered for community service, education and legislation advocacy
for technology. SPAM is one of the big issues they hope to take to Washington
D.C. this year, and they need YOUR help. Go there and fill out the simple,
secure and safe SPAM SURVEY. It will help them gather data for their
UCE Presentation.
The
sweetest imagination and candid illustrations - check James
Yang newly redesigned portfolio.
An
initiative by Core 77 The Industry
Snapshot is designed to offer valuable information on how much your
fellow designers are earning, where they're doing business, how they're
getting business, and the tools they're using to manage their business.
The survey takes only 10 to 15 minutes to complete and,
upon completion of the survey, all participants receive the full research
report for free.
Color
charts to explore chromatic referencing and mix + have your heard of
the dithering ColorMix to build
2 or 3 colors swatches? Cool.
A
striking photo_reporter + powagirrrl Ami
Vitale snaps
life as it is in our world; an eye-opening experience!
Design
by Mark where you can find great photoshop tutorials.
A
simple interface redesign that capitalizes on their *O* brand for imaging;
check The O Group.
Little
Factory has got a new set of people icons. I luv pixel design.
The
LOMO is a technically astonishing, gorgeous little Russian compact camera.
Check Lomography.com to visit a
fab collections and to learn more about it.
Subway and
has moved - update your bookmarks.
Hotmail
to introduce charges on BBC News.
New
variant on the Klez worm by David Becker -> JULY 6.
This new morphing worm is the most serious threat ever.
Make sure you install the patch for
IE 6; IE5.5 Service Pack 2; IE5.5 Service Pack 1; IE5.01 Service Pack
2 for Windows 2000 and NT.
Flash
XML resources? Check FlashDeveloper.
About
time! Gator sued
over pop-up ads by Stefanie Olsen
///
don't be a night nurse /// 'cause we can! by oneloveforever.
You
need to check The Attik navigational
system - interesting flash application + nice color palette.
Full
house of ideas, fonts, stuff and sharp market strategies -> House
Industries.
We've
got 2 new powagirrrls Carolina and Renata from Argentina running :::.
NOMADE .:::
Wanna
join a new flash list and share ideas, tips and techniques? Topics include
design, programming, business, etc. Brought to you by Ann-Marie aka Flash
Goddess.
JavaScript
+ CSS + DOM Magic by Makiko Itoh
My first and lasting impression: she's the most conversant and geeky
powagirrrl I've ever met. She's trailing from many years of print experience
and is a reference expert in Portable Document programming as well as
a business woman.
Her close*up interview is enlighting and
it didn't come as a surprise that she would write a book on javascript,
css and DOM - which are some of her proficient skills.
I met Maki f2f at Web2000 in SanFran - when we were both
on the same team participating in the *Site in a day* contest. Read the
aftermath article: Cool
Site in a Day: The Shortest Eight Hours of Our Lives co-written with Nick
Finck that recounts the event.
Dawn
passed this info along concerning royalties to be paid by indepedent
internet radio stations and the fact that her fav station SomaFM -
was shut down; you can read the reasons on their site.
Wanna do something about it? Please read this page for
more information.
IDEO is
an industrial design powerhouse! Check their work.
Interviews
with Jakob
Nielsen + Todd
Purgason on PixelSurgeon -
you don't want to miss that!
Netdiver
appeared in the What's New on Yahoo - July 2/02 and is now in the Arts >
Design Arts > Graphic Design > Magazines listing
in the company of professional magazines. That is a grand recognition
since there are millions of sites out there... I am wowie!
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