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Jeffrey Way » 7 Important Performance Considerations "I was asked a few days ago about how much attention I pay to speed and performance when launching a new blog, like this one. The answer, of course, is that it really depends on the site. Obviously a site like TUTSPLUS (which I didn’t design or code) […]

The "Bulletproof" Button | Silverpop "n our recent Webinar, "Using Innovations in Email Creative to Drive Increased Engagement," Aaron Smith and Lisa Harmon of the email creative agency Smith-Harmon outlined a great technique that enables email marketers to use image-based buttons but still convey the CTA if images are blocked." Awesome. (tags: email css design […]

U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio – NYTimes.com "Job seekers now outnumber openings six to one, the worst ratio since the government began tracking open positions in 2000. According to the Labor Department’s latest numbers, from July, only 2.4 million full-time permanent jobs were open, with 14.5 million people officially unemployed." Wow. (tags: […]

Economic View – Making It Easier to Register as an Organ Donor – NYTimes.com "By comparing the consent rates in European countries, the psychologists Eric Johnson and Dan Goldstein have shown that the choice of opting in or opting out is a major factor. Consider the difference in consent rates between two similar countries, Austria […]

Daring Fireball Linked List: Jackass of the Week: U.S. District Court Judge James Ware "This is absurd: Rocky Mountain Bank emailed confidential financial information to the wrong Gmail address. The bank attempts to force Google to release the name of the owner of the email address. Google refuses without court order. Federal judge James Ware […]

Justice Ginsburg Is Taken to Hospital – NYTimes.com "Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was hospitalized Thursday after becoming ill in her office at the Supreme Court." (tags: supremecourt usa politics) QuirksBlog: The HTML5 drag and drop disaster "After spending about a day and a half in testing I am forced to conclude that the HTML5 drag […]

Lily Allen's copyright problem – Boing Boing "It's tempting to count coup here and write Allen off as a hypocrite, but there's a more important story here. Allen just hasn't thought this through. Copyright is problematic for everyone: musicians, fans, bloggers. The absence of clear affirmative rights to make personal copies, to share with your […]

Memories of the Futurecast: Episode Three – WWdN: In Exile "Hey look! It's Monday, and that means it's time for a new Memories of the Futurecast." More fun with Wil Wheaton. (tags: wilwheaton humor startrek writing) Why Developers Get Fired — Datamation.com "A second reason developers are shown the door is that they aren’t communicating […]

Something Positive: Sept. 21, 2009 Awesome Something Positive. (tags: humor nsfw somethingpositive webcomics) Google doesn’t use the keywords meta tag in web search "We went ahead and did this post on the official Google webmaster blog to make it super official, but I wanted to echo the point here as well: Google does not use […]

Marco.org – Businesses I'm Thankful Not To Be In "The music business." Indeed. (tags: business music copyright legal) House Expands Federal Aid to College Students – NYTimes.com "By shifting to direct federal lending, the Obama administration said it would save more than $80 billion over 10 years, which would go into higher Pell grants for […]