Apparently it’s RSS Day. For all those people who don’t know what RSS is, it’s the internet’s best kept secret (still amazes me how many people don’t know about this). Go the site and change your internet habits forever.

In his article Press releases: spin and propaganda, Gerry McGovern recently railed against the practice of posting press releases on web sites, asking the question:

…why do so many organizations still publish press releases prominently on their websites?

I agree in principle that putting press releases on a web site does not serve the purpose for which they were originally intended. That is, providing information to journalists for them to write stories about you (although with the advent of the social media release this might be changing).

Thinking back to last week's Bootcamp Future Now session, Des Traynor's and Paul Adams's talk dovetailed nicely with each other. Des talked about designing for mobility and context, while Paul talked about designing experiences. Let's recap...

I was listening to Gruber’s podcast the other day, and they mentioned the blue screen that appears for Leopard users after an upgrade. They attributed this to a bit of software that might have been installed (can’t remember what the name is) which can get itself installed so that it can be used by another programme, like the Logitec mouse software. Not sure if anyone knows what I’m talking about, but if anyone’s got any links or whatever regarding this could you please drop by and tell me what the deal is, because...

A reminder to our many readers that Design Observer has a rich archive of slide shows for your enjoyment: Design Observer: Tables of Contents Tom Vanderbilt: Blast-Door Art Don Hamerman: Baseballs Tom Manning: Spam Cartoons Andrew Blauvelt: Peter Seitz Portfolio...

Today the WCAG 2.0 has been advanced to Candidate Recommendation status. This is a big step in the long W3C guideline development process. What this means is that most people agree on the technical aspects of the much needed update to WCAG 1.0, and we can start using WCAG 2.0 as a guideline as it's "Ready to Test-Drive".

Your online community can only grow so much while you're moderating everything yourself. There comes a time when you'll need to delegate many of your moderation responsibilities to a trusted team. In this article, Patrick discusses how to select and train these moderators to ensure that your forum becomes successful without losing its community spirit...

Skine.art is an awesome blog of moleskin contributors from around the world. Of note are some awesome illustrators from Sweden and Brazil.