Inflatable Sheep

Another lovely day in the Valley. I'm on modified work duty with my broken leg which means I work at work two days a week and work from home three days a week. Love the flexibility, love working in my jammies all day.

I'm about to get a handle on my information overload. So many RSS feeds, so little time. I keep plugging away at refining my RSS list, concentrating on Web Design mostly, and in particular those of web designing women. You're out there, ladies, and I'm gonna find you.

In anticipation of the tenth anniversary of my website this November, I'm brainstorming v.9 of my LMichelle page. I'm rethinking the hierarchy of my website and where do people land first within it's pages and how that affects navigation. Also keeping tabs on traffic to my Sheep pages just to see the percentage of people who actually go to the website versus people who use the RSS feed link.

If I had a lot of videos, I'd consider Delicious Library. Use your iSight to scan in the barcode. Your Delicious Library retrieves product information from Amazon. Integrates with Address Book, iCal, and your iPod. Seach contents with Spotlight. And, of course, there's a Dashboard widget. [Thanks, Crown Dozen]

I hate it when “essays” are actually cleverly disguised product ads.

Flickr Related Tag Browser. [Thanks, Kaliber10000]

Photologs have come a long way, Jamsession. [Thanks, Coudal]

Ten Questions for Joe Clark.

Web 2.0 for Designers:

“What does this mean for Web designers? It means designers have to start thinking about how to brand content as well as sites. It means designers have to get comfortable with Web services and think beyond presentation of place to APIs and syndication. In short, it means designers need to become more like programmers.”

What? No more pretty pictures, no more destination sites? What I really liked about Web Design was the marriage of words and pictures to create an emotional response / connection to the reader. I don't always get that from an RSS feed. I still like to see the Web Design of the author, and I don't mean the minimalist-type of Web Design. It's a fine line between minimalism and no design.