Category: AI for Creatives

  • The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

    The whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Introducing the Slackstreet Creative Group, a private, new media agency and creative co-operative. Part of the AI for Creatives collection. See also: AI Keynote Slides Need Taste Before Prompts.

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  • ‘Change, Culture, Creativity, Communication’ › Moderate comments — WordPress

    ‘Change, Culture, Creativity, Communication’ › Moderate comments — WordPress Part of the AI for Creatives collection. See also: Why Judgment Beats “Creativity” in the AI Era.

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  • Customized Code and Free Hosting for Grassroots Media Activists

    Customized Code and Free Hosting for Grassroots Media Activists Designers, developers and administrators from Spain, Netherlands, Austria and Germany are working on a special distribution of the Drupal Content Management System that makes it a lot easier to set up your own multi-user, multi-language, multi-purpose int Part of the AI for Creatives collection. See also:

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  • Open Source CMS Evalation – Part III: Implementation

    Open Source CMS Evalation – Part III: Implementation In my last post, I narrowed my open source CMS candidates down to Joomla and Drupal. I was hoping to have a choice made by Monday morning, implement the design in the morning, and populate the content in the afternoon. Two days later and I’m now where

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  • PodCast Hotel Presentation and Photos

    Last week Roland and I drove down to Portland for the Podcast Hotel. The event was for musicians, record labels and other people interested in podcasting, the web and audio recording technology. Thanks to Alex Williams for everything you did to pull together a great first event… it was great to see Eric, JD, Matt

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  • Bandnews.org

    Bandnews.org Bandnews.org is a great bot-driven music news aggregator that spiders over 800 bands’ websites to bring you the latest news about your favorite artists. Part of the AI for Creatives collection. See also: AI Keynote Slides Need Taste Before Prompts.

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  • Flock rocks (or Chris Messina is a demo god)!

    Flock rocks (or Chris Messina is a demo god)! From Roland “At OSCON 2005, I was lucky enough to get a demo of Flock, the new “social web browser” based on Firefox, from Chris Messina, Flock CSS and design guru, at their launch party. I was blown away!” Part of the AI for Creatives collection.

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  • Losability vs. Usability

    Losability vs. Usability he rules of Web design can be summed up in two words: Whatever works. In other words, if your Web design is based on a strong business strategy, it sets its own standards. It’s like the siphon effect—you prime the siphon by drawing a little water thro Part of the AI for

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  • Design for Web 2.0

    Design for Web 2.0 15 questions to consider when figureing out what does design look like in a web 2.0 world. By Jason Kottke, Jason Fried, and Jeff Veen Part of the AI for Creatives collection. See also: AI Keynote Slides Need Taste Before Prompts.

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  • What Are MicroFormats?

    What Are MicroFormats? Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards. Part of the AI for Creatives collection. See also: AI Keynote Slides Need Taste Before Prompts.

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  • Blogging Grows Up

    (from Salon.com) Mena and Ben Trott thrilled the world of bloggers with their Movable Type software. Then their company, Six Apart, received venture financing and they decided it was time to get serious. In the spring of 2001, Mena Trott, a Web designer in San Francisco, began a quirky Web log called Dollarshort. This was

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  • Design and your strategy

    A great new article posted today by Design Council. Design runs deeper than look and feel – it can help you decide what you do and how you do it. What comes to mind when you think of design? Your last office makeover? Your business cards? Perhaps it’s the artwork on the last book or

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  • Web Design: The Usual Suspects

    Cameron takes us through the development of his current site design. Good job articulating his internal thought process. Jason and half the frickin’ internet discuss CSS, XHTML and standards. Again! This one is a good intro to the whole topic though and be very relevant to people considering trading in their tried and true old

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  • The Business of Design

    From time to time inevitably everyone has to justify their existence within a corporation. “What do you do exactly?” “What value do you provide the organization?” “What impact would it have on ‘us’ if ‘we’ didn’t have ‘you’?” When it comes to design, measuring quantifiable value can be difficult and we are often forced to

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