Language usage over time – Google Books Ngram Viewer August 16, 2011

http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/info I provided this search result to a colleague showing old git’s are on the increase (good news Pete), old goats are stabalising while old bastards may be dying off. http://ngrams.googlelabs.com/graph?content=old+goat%2C+old+bastard%2C+old+git&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=6&smoothing=3

Creative Commons: a user guide August 29, 2010

www.aliprandi.org/cc-user-guide Thanks to the CC license applied you can download it for free, but if you want to support and promote this kind of cultural production please consider to buy a paper version (or paid file download option). This is an independent publishing project: the book is completely edited by the author and published online [...]

Con-munication May 25, 2008

This video presentation of an informal survey titled How Bad can a Cell Phone Company Get? appears to target bad customer service. 93% of responses were an incorrect rate, half of those 100-times less than what is actually charged. It is a good example of something intended to deceive people to gain a profit. I [...]

Writing Methodologies January 20, 2008

Philip Yaffe describes a simple writing method How to improve your writing by standing on your head by Philip Yaffe This article is a self promotion for his book In the “I” of the Storm: the Simple Secrets of Writing & Speaking (Almost) like a Professional. Another of his articles The mathematics of persuasive communication [...]

A different type of film November 6, 2007

David Farbey recounts fond memories in announcing Helvetica, the feature-length film about typography, graphic design and global visual culture. It looks at the proliferation of one typeface (which will celebrate its 50th birthday in 2007) as part of a larger conversation about the way type affects our lives. Helvetica encompasses the worlds of design, advertising, [...]

Online Publishing Forum September 10, 2007

Processed recordings from the forum. Expand the post to view the speakers and details. still-open-online-publishing-forum-1a.zip (73MB) still-open-online-publishing-forum-1b.zip (59MB) still/open Program by Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.

Public forums: Online Publishing and Still/Open August 27, 2007

I have RSVPd to attend the following free public forums and will post up a review after the events. Online Publishing Forum Sunday 09-09-2007 A free forum courtesy of Writing WA from 11 am – 2 pm. still/open Forum 10-09-2007 ARTRAGE and Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) present still/open public forum at The [...]