- World Usability Day is happening this year on November 8. “World Usability Day was founded to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.”
- Findings From the Web Design Survey: last April A List Apart invited web professionals worldwide to participate in a 37 question survey of the web industry, which resulted in some 33,000 responses. Cheryl Lead and Essential Keystrokes are a couple of bloggers who have posted thoughts on some of the survey findings.
- What is the best movie of the last 25 years? How about the best album of the last 25 years? Take the Sydney Morning Herald surveys and cast your vote. Results will be published in the Metro lift-out section, next Friday, October 26.
- Urban Street Art Images in Miniature: The Little People of London. This is interesting. Miniature art installations, featuring tiny figurines, in and around London. Apparently they are there, somewhere on the streets of London, right now.
- How Fast Can You Get Back To Doing Business? “If your main work computer crashed - I mean really crashed, and was a total loss, hard drive and all - how long would it take you to get back to doing business?” Some tips for preparing for the worst should your computer go belly up, from Freelance Folder.
- Embroiled in email: “I spend at least an hour every day reading, replying to, deleting, purging, sorting, rejoicing, and cursing email. I imagine you do, too.” Cameron Moll is interested in how you manage your email mountains. Zero E-mail Fridays maybe?
- Whack*A*Poll: Whack an Australian leader in this interactive game! Quite stupid, quite hilarious. There’s a Federal (nationwide) election looming in Australia (November 24) so I guess there’ll be little respite from it all for the duration; might as well have what fun we can.
- Faster, pussycat: Jeffrey Zeldman and family are buying an apartment in New York. I think that anyone, anywhere, who has ever bought property can relate to the time squeezing turmoil such a transaction induces… a great read!
- Seven Reasons Why Your Blog is Scary: so, getting back to those “list articles“… and this is a great one. Possible reasons why readers may be leaving your blog before the header has even loaded. Reason #1, “You Have Some Sort of Freaky Auto-Play Music”, is top of the list for very good reason I feel!
- 15 Ways to Reclaim 2 Precious Hours Every Day: “For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.” Now how’s that for food for though? A great productivity boosting article at The Ririan Project.
Links for 20 October 2007
Posted by John Lampard on Saturday, 20 October, 2007 to the disassociated subset
Thanks for including me in your link round-up! There’s heaps of interesting ones there, I’m going to spend some time browsing. :)