Links

Mine

• The InterChange Desk: career change and job search advice. By me.
• OnVoiceOver: profiling Australian creatives & their projects
• Is That The Time?: my first ever website, remastered for WEB 2.0 in 2005

Personal websites & blogs

• Airbag: sharp writing makes for great reading
• Andy Budd: web creative from London-On-Sea (Brighton, UK)
• Authentic Boredom: there’s a MISNOMER if ever there were one
• Ben Bailey: Melbourne based standards compliant web designer’s BLOG
• Bucket Fountain: this is my brother, Ben’s, personal website
• dandruff: Stephanie doesn’t update often but when she does it’s worth it
• dog or higher: by John Allsopp, co-founder of the Web Directions conferences
• Don To Earth: at 94 (years) not out, (the) Don keeps on blogging
• Eastwood Zhao dot COM: the blogger from Vancouver
• Jen Leheny: Trashed! Co-founder Australian INfront 1999, now Red INstead
• Makoy’s Memoirs Of A Certified Blogger : need I say more?
• The Autopsy: it’s a nice day for an autopsy
• The Fourth Estate: by Mike Walsh - all things media
• Veerle: blog design at its best
• waferbaby: online 13 Years now. DAMN.
• Weblog Wannabe: expatriate Indonesian blogger living in Canada
• Web Urbanist: urban art and comment

All Things Web Design

• Australian INfront: launch PAD to Australian art & design … since July 1999
• CoolStop: Joe’s been picking a COOL site EVERY day for 10 years; TOP that!
• Design is Kinky: DiK was once just DiK, now it’s an EMPIRE, check my DiK profile
• Happy Belli: design and art from Sydneysider Kevin Vo and friends
• iBLOG™: collectors of interesting URLs
• k10k: where would we be minus the K? Miss the once regular issues though
• Newstoday®: broadcasting design news by the minute
• Shift-Japan: the original design e-zine
• Smooch: Perth based design magazine
• TheNews.com.au: local & International design news from Tasmania

Blogging Resources, Directories, & Promotion

• Australian Blogs: from the creator of the TV Fugly Awards
• Blog Flux: global blog directory
• CSS Blue: directory of Australian websites that are CSS designed
• gnoos: Australian blog directory & search engine
• Peopleized!: interview and be interviewed
• The Australian Index: state by listing of blogs & websites
• W3C Sites: inspiring collection of standards compliant websites

Design & Development

• 456 Berea Street: home of some very insightful & educational web-dev articles
• A List Apart: no matter what you’re asked to design, say YES, then head HERE
• Crack Java Interviews: don’t say you won’t find links to Java resources here
• Digital Web Magazine: another great resource for WEB designers and developers
• meyerweb.com: one word: Style Sheet Guru. Ok, that’s more than one word.
• SimpleBits: Dan is THE master of ALL things CSS, read his books, read his blog
• Web Directions: see and hear the web’s BIGGEST names yearly here in Sydney
• Webstock: New Zealand web development conference, go on visit middle Earth
• Zeldman: “godfather of the web” here’s the original personal website & BLOG

Resources & Distractions

• FBi Radio: cool radio
• Flying Solo: for those doing their own thing
• Ma.gnolia: social bookmarking dude
• New Scientist: geeky, but interesting
• The Guardian: how much CRAP is the British PM in this week?
• Triple JJJ: Mix Up on a Saturday night, or ANY night thanks to streaming beats :)
• Urban Dictionary: look up urban jargon

Photography

• javajive: expatriate American living in Jakarta. Stunning. Check also his blog
• Rick Wezenaar: Dutch people and landscape photographer
• Thomas Laupstad: photography from northern Norway
• Smallest Photo: nothing small about this fantastic collection

NOT SAFE FOR WORK…

• Suicide Girls: an entirely NEW definition of Kobayashi Maru
• Sex in Art: by Justin Fox. Launched in 2006, er, why not sooner?