November, 2010

Links for November 30th

A List Apart: Articles: ARIA and Progressive Enhancement

This is where the ARIA accessibility specification currently stands, a good summary of why it exists for those who don't know, and how we can start using it today. After that, it tells us the problems with using it today, and where we need to go from here.

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web-standards

html

accessibility

Links for November 28th

Priestly Goth Blog: Advent Reflection: Had we fallen asleep on our watch?

Larry reflects on the wakefulness and watchfulness that, while associated with Advent, can lead us to either a dispensationalism that doesn't need the incarnation, or a frenetic activism that doesn't need God, and posits that both of these are wrong in light of possibilities available to us. Beautiful reflections.

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eschatology

incarnation

theology

emergent

advent

Design Without Designers – Core77

Important words from Don Norman on the trends that seek to replace design with data. There's an important examination of the fact that testing, which is often used to prove that design is no longer necessary, is both essential and incomplete.

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don-norman

creativity

design

Links for November 27th

Extending HTML5 — Microdata | HTML5 Doctor

HTML5 Microdata. I've been using microformats for several years, but I haven't begun to use this microdata yet, and this is a really helpful introduction to its placement in HTML5.

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microdata

html

html5

Reflections of an Afro-Christian Scholar: When It Happens to Me

I'm as angry about the TSA madness as anyone, but it's desperately important for us to remember, or learn about, how similar this treatment is to the daily treatment that many poor and minorities receive.

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race

poverty

Holidays, civil religion, and injustice

November 27th, 2010

In light of Thanksgiving yesterday, Black Friday today, and the upcoming Advent and Christmas seasons, and maybe to a greater extent than normal because of the impending birth of our first child, I've been thinking about the connections between these holiday seasons, our prevailing civil religion, and injustice.

Links for November 22nd

Adobe Labs – Adobe Illustrator CS5 HTML5 Pack

Illustrator CS5's pack for providing "initial support for HTML5 and CSS3" along with extending its support for SVG. I'm a big fan of this.

tags:

design

tools

svg

html5

css3

illustrator

adobe

adaptive path » soft skills for hard conversations

A necessary piece on how to "introduce challenging design ideas without creating challenging relationships." These are great ways to get folks invested in a design process in order to get better design out of it. Learn this stuff.

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relationships

user-experience

design

Links for November 19th

Rethinking the Content Inventory: Sources of Data | Hobbs on Tech

Examines how to build a content inventory through different sources of data, including how it's viewed, where it comes from, how it's used, and so on. Great way to improve this for big websites.

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content-strategy

HTML5 video player in CSS with Silverlight and Flash : MediaElement.js

Just what it says: HTML5 video player that falls back to Flash or Silverlight. Has a jQuery and WordPress plugin.

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jquery

javascript

design

video

html5

Links for November 14th

I Know how Old You Are | Donald Miller's Blog

"When we are young or immature, right theology makes us feel superior, but when we are older and more mature, a study of theology makes us feel inferior and unworthy, undeserved, and grateful."

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theology

donald-miller

Links for November 9th

Dadly Creativity In Play — Father Apprentice

I know I haven't blogged about it yet, and I hope to do so soon, but I'm going to be a dad. So I've been reading some new voices, and this is one of them. "I mean, we were the boys who played so well — who built forts, who created different worlds in our bedrooms, who made cars screech and skid and launch on the folds of our bedsheets. We’ve got that in us — we’re like the artisans of playtime."

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fatherhood

parenting

My Car Crash and the Open View » Blog » Greg Boyd (Christus Victor Ministries)

Greg Boyd reflects on a recent car crash he was involved in, and what role prayer had, might have had, or did not have in the outcome. It's a beautiful post that I think shows the robust nature of open theism.

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prayer

theology

greg-boyd

open-theism

Is the Emergent Movement A Colononizing Influence? | Ethnic Space Blog

A post asking whether Emergent is, itself, a colonizing influence. Randy Woodley reminds us that indigenous people have been where we are going, and can help guide us. I want to be a part of this.

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post-colonialism

race

culture

church

emergent

Links for November 3rd

Is the Fate of the World Being Decided Today in the Indian Ocean? | Dissident Voice

A fascinating look at the Indian Ocean region as the world's strategic center of gravity, and how that could possibly lead to the end of U.S. hegemony. I'm one who would see this as a good thing.

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culture

politics

Links for November 2nd

A List Apart: Articles: Art Direction and Design

These are wise and timely words for us as web designers. While I think the specific tactics are fairly basic to a design education of any kind, it's increasingly easy to forget the theory behind them when creating things for the web, and his words make this clear.

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design